Happy Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks

What a gorgeous Thanksgiving Day we had here in Minnesota!  All of the snow from last Saturday had fully melted and the temperature went into the high 50's!  John, Megan and I had a great Thanksgiving Day at church, the Gennrich Thanksgiving lunch and the Lewis leftover dinner and outing to Michael's craft store.  I hope all of my friends and family had a wonderful day as well and took time to give thanks for the many gifts around us every day. 

Here are some of the things I am thankful for this year:

• My wonderful and amazing husband of three and a half years.  He is always so understanding and quite photogenetic too!
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• Our beautiful, funny and smart daughter Megan.  She's brought so much joy into our lives and I hate to imagine life without her.

 

The rest of our family and friends.  We are thankful that we have such a close family that is able to help us care for our daughter and be our support.  We couldn't do it without you! 

The changing of seasons.  I know we complain about winter, snow and extreme hot and cold temperatures but without such changes we wouldn't appreciate nice fall and spring days. 

Our house, clothes, food and always having enough of what we need. Even though our house isn't as big as we'd like, we don't eat steak every night or dress in the latest fashion, we always have exactly what we need.

Everyone's individual talents and uniqueness.  Some people are blessed with talents of cooking wonderful meals (see picture above) while others have musical talents or are athletes.  Everyone is special and it's what makes the world go round!

And something new to be thankful for this year... the new life that is growing inside of me.  What a miracle.  And, although I cannot feel any movement yet, I know he or she is in there growing and moving like crazy.  I'm thankful that I had been feeling very good most of last week and able to enjoy Thanksgiving.  I'm sure every day won't be perfect but I'll take the good days whenever they come.