Thanksgiving 2013

Thankful for so many things this year....especially the privilege of being their Mommy!  I have a husband that adores me, wonderful family and friends, an awesome church family and small group, and a job that is especially fun this year ;)  I'm such a lucky lady!  Here is our Thanksgiving in pictures...

my turkeys :)

Not the best but it will do!

cousins :)

My parents with their grandbabies :)

BLESSED and SO THANKFUL!

(We had dinner with my in-laws but I didn't take any pictures... :( )

Thankful tree 2013

"Give thanks to Him and praise His name!"

Psalm 100:4

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with our families!  I will post pictures from Thanksgiving day in a separate post but I wanted to share our Thanksgiving tradition.  I blogged about doing this last year, but my kiddos and I had a lot of fun doing our thankful tree again this year.

The kids picked all the things/people, etc that we put on the leaves.  Of course, we could have had this tree full of leaves but we only did one per day ;)

 We are thankful for:

-God

-Jesus

-Holy Spirit

-Mommy

-Daddy

-Mark

-Alyssah

-Lola

-Nana and Paw-Paw

-the Creighton family

-school

-Mrs. Jackson (Mark's teacher)

-Church of the Highlands

-family

-friends

-leaves (this one made me smile)

-Mimzy and Big Daddy

-Blake and Grace

-Joo and Matt-Matt

-Jess

-GG (my heart turns to mush when my sweet boy thinks about my sweet Maw-Maw who is with Jesus)

-our hearts

-our home

-our van

-clothes

-AU football

-the Bible and Bible stories

-Tucker

-the pumpkin patch

-Ms. T (Lyssah's teacher)

Life is sweet!

I have been overwhelmed lately with how precious life is, and I'm just soaking up as much as I can, esp. with my little ones.  Too soon they won't be so little, and I don't want to miss a single thing!!  God has given me two of the most precious gifts.  These babies couldn't be more different, but they are both so loving and love me and their Daddy to pieces. :)  I.am.blessed.

Little lady got her new glasses yesterday!  And is so happy to have them back :)  My beautiful princess!

This boy is so kind-hearted and giving.  He made these sunflowers for me at school earlier this week because he knows I like them ;)  Be still my heart!

We have so many things going on and coming up.  I'm excited but I also get so behind on housework and everyday life. It's gets crazy trying to play catch-up!  We have been doing our Thankful Tree again this year, and it looks great!  I'll be sure to show a finished picture of it.

As soon as we take it down, I'll be putting up out Advent Calendar.  This is our first year doing this.  It will be great having a set Bible reading for the night and an activity.  I'll be posting on that soon as well.  I love having an activity everyday that redirects our hearts and minds on why we celebrate Christmas and not get so caught up into gifts and being self-centered.  Jesus and others need to be the center of Christmas.  The world's view has tainted Christmas for so long and it will continue to fight for our attention.  I'm doing all that I can to keep that away from our home!

I can't believe next week is Thanksgiving and then we are well into Christmas!  So excited about this season of celebrating our Savior's birth, but I love taking the time to look back at how much I have to be thankful for.  God has provided, blessed, and intervened on our behalf in so many ways.  I love taking the time the week of Thanksgiving to reflect and praise Him for that and what's to come.  It's fun getting together with family too ;)

SO very thankful for these two and my handsome hubby!

Hope all of you have fun plans for Thanksgiving.  Enjoy time with your families and thank God for it all!  He's amazing!

Thankful Tree

These aren't the best pictures b/c I took them with my phone but this is how our Thankful tree turned out.  I started this tradition last year but changed it a little.  I found this different way to do the tree and like it so much more.  Last year I did real twigs and hung the leaves, but you couldn't really read them, and I didn't have a good spot to put it.  The kids and I did a leaf a day in November for something we are thankful for.  We tried to include everyone, but there were only so many leaves.  Next year we may have to do 2 leaves a day ;)

The list consisted of (in no particular order):
-Jesus/God (although He was 1st and should be ;))
-Mommy
-Daddy
-Mark
-Alyssah
-Church of the Highlands
-Christmas (included our tree, lights, and Jesus' bday)
-Joo (Jill)
-Matt-Matt
-Mimzy
-Big Daddy
-Blake and Grace
-Aunt Brandi and Ariel
-Nana
-Paw-Paw
-toys
-our home
-heaven
-the Bible
-Lola
-Nay-Nay (Janine) and Dustin
-Easton
-Uncle Joe
-baby Joey
-Derik and K
-Jess
-Casey and Gracie
-school and friends
-food
-clothes

Hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving and are enjoying the start of the Christmas season!  I know we are :)  Lots more updating to come from the Adams!  Stay tuned!

Thankful 2011

I feel so very blessed this year. I have a precious little family, awesome friends, and an amazing family!  I can't wait to see what our next year has in store!  Mark and I made these cute little pilgrim hats (pictured above) the day before Thanksgiving.  They weren't as cute as the ones on Pinterest, but they were pretty yummy ;)  I like finding cute, new ideas for the holidays.

My sweet friends!  I'm very thankful for them...they rock :)

my beautiful daughter and Matthew

Taylor made Mark's night by letting him bowl with her!   I'm so glad to have this pretty girl as a new friend.  I feel like I've known her for years.

Mark and his Aunt Joo, who he adores ;)

Happy Thanksgiving from the most handsome boy I know :)

the Adams girls :)  

my crazy, wonderful babies!

I seriously have the most gorgeous girl on the planet!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Adams family! 2011

Thanksgiving meal ideas

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/marshmallow-pilgrim-hats-682463/

Of course I started with a cute little dessert idea ;)  I love trying out new, cute recipes.  These little hats are precious!

I also like these.  For a snack...

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/pigs-in-pilgrim-hats-1027250/

And this.  SO fun!

http://familyfun.go.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving-dinner-recipes/thanksgiving-appetizers/fruit-gobbler-688370/

I love the holidays and love having kiddos to make it more special!