Giving Thanks

 This was our first Thanksgiving in our new home and we broke it in well!  We had three other families over from our ward and Grandpa Tom was with us.  We ate well!

 All the kids from the Field, Sorensen, Coburn and Murray families.

 The best of desserts.  We are so thankful for our many blessings, most of all the blessings of the people in our lives and the gift of our Savior Jesus Christ.  Hope your Thanksgiving was blessed!

Happy Turkey Day!

 I have a blessed life. I know it every day I wake up and try not to take anything for granted.  I'm grateful for it all:  family, friends who have become our family, health and strength, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and every little thing that make my life what it is...very blessed.  We celebrated Thanksgiving with Doug's coworkers again this year. We were very happy my dad was here with us.  Our first visitor!

 Poor Princess the dog. I bet she was glad when my girls left.

 And because we didn't eat enough on Thursday, we decided to do it all over again with Americans in our ward and the missionaries. 

I think we set a record for the amount of food on our bench (island).

We are Grateful

 Aussies don't celebrate Thanksgiving.  We sent the boys to school like any other day, but after school we had a great feast with people who work with Doug.  As I think of this year, the busiest year of our lives, I recognize how very blessed we are.  We were able to move into a beautiful home and then leave it in good hands to move safely across the world to experience life in Australia.  We have been blessed with our wonderful families and a network of friends we call our family.  We have the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives, a world wide church that blesses us every day. We have so much and we are very grateful.

 I'm not sure if the boys even ate anything since they were glued to the xBox and Wii the whole time.

 The girls wouldn't leave this poor dog alone.

 The kid table

All Aboard!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Giving Thanks

We spent Thanksgiving with friends from our ward at the Sorensens' home. We are so thankful for all of our many blessings that the Lord continually pours out upon our family.

Of course we had to do some Black Friday shopping. I went to Target with the ladies, and no Black Friday is complete without a trip to the Mosby Center and the Leesburg Outlet Mall. Doug did some Black Friday shopping as well, and the kids sat on these boxes all day.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Giving Thanks

We broke tradition to hold a traditional Thanksgiving feast this year.

We had Grandpa Tom, our cousins and the Sorensons over to share our meal.

We give thanks for our many blessings of health, home, friends, our Savior and family.

The boys were so grateful to have cousins come and visit us. Spencer, James, Faith and Grace.

We were especially grateful this Thanksgiving that we didn't have to look at one box while we ate. (We just moved them to our bedroom instead.)