It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We kicked off our Christmas season last week! All of the family attended the tree lighting in our sweet little town... it was fun and it was C-O-L-D!
Waiting for the parade and Santa!

Our family in front of the yet to be lit Christmas tree.

Paige's choir class sang again this year... she was one reason we stood in the cold for so long!

We are looking forward to a wonderful Christmas this year. McKinley loves, loves, loves the lights everywhere... she oohs' and aah's at our Christmas tree every day when we turn the lights on! It is so sweet... she has also taken a liking to a few of our "authorized" ornaments... a stuffed snowman, a stuffed dog, an elf and an angel are her favorites. She carries the snowman with her everywhere! : )

We pray you have an enjoyable Christmas season. We hope you know the true meaning of Christmas... the birth of our Lord and Savior. King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Hallelujah!

Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for this year! We are thankful for our health, we are thankful to have each other, we are thankful for our family and friends. Mostly we are thankful for the grace and peace we have through Christ Jesus. Without Him we would have nothing!

We had a wonderful meal at Chris and Diane's this year! The food was heavenly and the company was even better!
Here is one table:

Here is the other table:

Here is our family... We are so blessed!

Great Grandma and McKinley:

This was just too cute not to include... : )

We hope you have much to be thankful for this year!

Give'N'Gobble

We have started an annual Thanksgiving tradition... a 5k walk in our neighborhood called the Give'N'Gobble. Part of the race fee goes to a local food bank and we also donate cans of food for the t-shirts. Last year was the first year we did it and it was a blast. McKinley did great again this year... she was just a warm snuggy passenger! But she did have her own race bib and was the cutest participant ever! : )

This year we used our two extra "family" spots to bring along Benjamin and Paige... our niece and nephew. I think they had fun as much fun as we did, even though it was freezing cold. At least it was dry!

It is a great way to start of day of giving Thanks... and to work off a few of those calories before we even eat them! I think next year we may try the 5k run... at least it sounds good now. We'll see. : )