Monday, November 26, 2007

A life-changing thanksgiving






Boy, this was a thanksgiving to top all. there were tears, so much laughter and so many hugs and kisses. Aimee jo, andrew and anaiah are leaving in two weeks and we had such a tearful goodbye. all 21 of us were crying and it was like we couldn't let go. We got tons of great pictures that we will cherish forever. I also included a picture of our thankfulness tree. amanda made us a wonderful gift. she put branches in a vase and cut out leaves, we all wrote what we were thankful for and close-pined them to the trees. not surprisingly, we almost all wrote words like; "family", "anaiah", "faith", "togetherness"... they all meant so much to each and every one of us. we had soooo much food, of course!!!:) We had famous pies, rolls, pumpkin bars, oh and TONS of potatoes. we shared in communion, sang "Praise God from whom all blessings flow" and ate together. it was so perfect, abi even got to come. I have so much sadness in my heart to see part of my family and my life go far away physically, but I know we will be together soon!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Family nite!





Tonight was a wonderful reunion with the neilson, well part of the neilson family. Shelly kinda surprised a lot of people by showing up this week. Being her wonderful motherly self, she cooked all our favorites. Get this, she made potato soup (Jordan’s fav), spinach lasagna (abi and my favorite), veggie soup, biscuits, bread (jakes and Jordan’s favorite), and for dessert she made 2 strawberry frozen pies, apple crisp and we had ice cream... she SPOILED us!!! Her, Sage and Paul were all there as well as Jacob, abi, Jordan, Scott, Caitlin and of course me. It was a wonderful night and I can't even believe how much I miss them already!!!!