Monday, December 16, 2013

Counting My Blessings

An absolute positive of living in Utah, is the opportunity we have to be surrounded by family during holidays. This year we celebrated Thanksgiving with Nate's family -- it was wonderful!
Hailey did a wonderful job with the adult table and I had the privilege of decorating the kids table. I made individual ships for each kid, filled with M&M's and complete with sour patch kids for the pilgrims.

It was a day filled with food, family and shopping -- now is that a winning combo or what?

For Family Home Evening that week, we sat down and wrote out what we were thankful for.  Here's what we came up with:
T: Thomas S. Monson, tithing, Thomas' truck, trees, time, temple
H: Heaven, home, house, heat, health, Heavenly Father, horses
A: apples, apostles, angels
N: name, neighbors, Nate
K: Kevin Durrant, kisses, kindness, Kim, kids, kittens
F: food, feet, friends, fasting, family, farm, fruit
U: Utah, USU, UNO game
L: love, life, lollipop, listening, light
We also watched a short movie about a man who in the world's eyes didn't have a whole lot, but he always felt blessed with everything he needed.  I loved when he said, "I don't know what else to be other than GRATEFUL."  What a great reminder of how truly blessed we are!

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