Thanksgiving

Since I had a request to share about our Thanksgiving, I will acquiesce. To be completely honest, it's a bit of a blur. A busy week, with a lot of cooking and cleaning, I prepared to have a large crowd of folks from John's family over for the holiday. As it turned out, however, we had a very small crowd, with a large-crowd-amount-of-food to eat! : ) Ahhh, but all is well that ends well, right? I will admit to being slightly disappointed that more family could not be with us on this feastful occasion, but we had a very restful day with Bett (John's Mom), Marty (John's brother-in-law) and Marty's two children, Reagan (13) and Taryn (9). Our kids LOVE spending time with their cousins, and although Reagan has grown out of running around in the front yard, racing on bikes and careening downhill on the Green Machine, Taryn stuck like glue to each of our children (who all played outdoors for hours that day!). : )
I, literally, took a nap.
Thanksgiving Day came and went, leaving behind memories, crumbs and a lot of pies!
For those of you who have never seen John's beautiful Mom, here's Bett...

Bett is a godly woman, and any time with her is time well-spent.

The day after Thanksgiving, (the holidays tend to linger over here)... John's twin brother (one of our most favorite people in the world!) and his wonderful wife, Karen, came to visit for two nights along with their bouncing-smiling-sweet-little boy, Charlie. (I've written about Charlie on here before, he was adopted and has been with James and Karen for two years now.) We always love and cherish any amount of time we get to spend with their family. James and Karen drove all the way from CT (12 hours!) with a three-year-old just to see us (well, they came to see Bett too). But, still, what a blessing, right?!
So all-in-all it was a very happy Thanksgiving, and we have many things to be thankful for.
A seasonal highlight for us... here's cousin Charlie with the big kids.

(Don't ya think Charlie looks like he'd fit right in with our family?!) : )