Thanksgiving 2016

I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving however you chose to spend it. Things were a little different for us this year. Every other year we go to Pennsylvania to be with my sisters family and parents and this is the year we would do that but because we had just went to New York in October, we decided not to go east again so soon.

We were invited to a few places but then decided we would just stay home and have a quiet Thanksgiving. But I knew I still needed to do something special since it was Thanksgiving which I think is a very special holiday.

So Wednesday (last minute, I know) I headed to the store and purchased the things I would need for our non-typical Thanksgiving dinner that I’ve done once before.  (I went back to find that post and when I did I could have cried. The kids have grown so much in just 3 short years.

That morning the menfolk worked on our latest project – a little cabin. (I’ll tell you all about it as soon as I get through posting about our trip that we took to the east!)

Meanwhile back at home Audrey and I made Serenity a special bagel breakfast, per her request, since it was her 19th birthday!

Serenity has been such a blessing to our home. I have always heard its harder to raise girls than boys but I didn’t understand what that all meant because Serenity is serenity – peaceful and serene.  But as she’s gotten older it’s been interesting to see all the drama that goes with girls. I guess we’re all the same, ladies. No getting around it but I still think I have it easy with Serenity being as low-key as she is.

Serenity put together a simple centerpiece for our Thanksgiving table.

And here we are gathered together.

Happy Thanksgiving to you! 🙂

After our non-traditional Thanksgiving meal of:

Spinach salad

Salmon with Brown Sugar Glaze

Shrimp Scampi

Fried Rice

Green Beans

Garlic Bread

we went to see the progress that had been made on the cabin.

and then… we had some 3 legged races in which I was completely hopeless. Between not figuring out the timing and laughing too hard, I was a terrible teammate.

Then it was time for a family game of croquet. We are loving our backyard and have played lots and lots of croquet since we finished it.

Justus and Audrey had served a Thanksgiving meal at a senior citizen center the day before and afterwards there was an pie/cake auction and so they bought a few things including this cake for Serenity’s birthday! They were so proud and tried to keep it a secret till the last moment but I think she had got a inkling.

After a few songs around the piano expressing thanks back to our Lord Jesus and a prayer for those that are going through difficult times this Thanksgiving, we ended our day with some poems and Scriptures.

https://youtu.be/P4fkGdjfHyw

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends. May the Lord bless you and keep you.

Keep counting your blessings!