Later at 5:30pm we had dinner at my house. The Mikesell's didn't make it for dinner but we were all able to do dessert. So I was one stuffed turkey by the end of it all, thinking about it makes me feel kind of sick. I must say this year my turkey was the best I have cooked yet, through all the years I have done it. I think it helped that I put one bunch of my poultry herbs under the skin of the turkey (thank you unknown lady at the grocery store for the tip and making my turkey the best). Then my apple pie was done oh soo...... right! Really! I will make two next year and skip my turtle pumpkin pie.
It was a good day and for the most part relaxed, I enjoy watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with my family and taking a slow start to the day. I had awesome intention's of doing a craft with Paiglee but I just couldn't get my butt in gear for that to happen. I was excited to have enough seating in our home for Thanksgiving with our table we bought back in September, it excited me for some reason. I guess I love the homeyness feeling of being around a big table with friends and family. We didn't really do much it was a lot of hanging out and relaxing. We did get together what we would like to get the girls this year, and tried to find best places for those items.
Friday nigh Paiglee had a sleepover at a friends house. We knew about this for days but didn't tell her until 3 hours before she was leaving. She would have not left us a lone with all the nagging of, if it was time to go yet. She went bowling and then watched movies and had pizza, stayed up let giggling and was exhausted Saturday. Saturday Emery seemed to be super needy and whinny and out of it. Daryl did end up going to our Bishop's house to watch a football game Saturday evening. Since Emery was getting sick or teething I opted to stay home and get the girls to bed to rest from all the activities. Sunday we were going to keep Emery home from church and just take turns going to various meetings. Well Sunday morning D woke up not feeling well at all. Emery was just a lush she seemed to not have the strength to hold her own body weight and she wasn't eating. So we all stayed home, I did some deep cleaning since everyone seemed to be getting sick. Daryl threw up and he missed work on Monday. He feels better but still not great but he went to work.
But Saturday night when d came home we set up the tree so we could decorate Sunday after church. Well that was put off until Monday night. We did a FHE lesson and then decorated the tree and had a treat and listened to Christmas music. Then after the girls went to bed I put up the decorations around the house and I began to not feel well, I am still exhausted and my stomach is sensitive. Today has been a take it easy day.
But I thought I would just name off a few things I am grateful for. We all know the traditional things but two of the things I feel unbelievably thankful for this year are. Daryl getting summer school this past summer it gave us many blessing. It was one big blessing that just kept on giving. That and D's loan repayment money he was awarded are huge. I couldn't say it enough! Having summer school finally happen for us, gave us the opportunity to go back and see D's family after two years. Then we were able to do things financially that we had always talked about as if a distant hope. Then to have the loan repayment come our way was huge, like we are in a dream type huge! These two things made us really reflect on our five years here and realize we may not love it here but we are so beyond blessed and we are suppose to be here and the Lord has us taken care of as long as we just keep pushing along. What a very profound feeling and blessing to physically see and feel the Lord's embrace around our family. I can't explain it but to reflect back and see how each big or what one might think to be small decision has then lead us to the current state we are in. When we made certain choices or decisions, or even when they were made for us we didn't think something greater was around the corner. But to see how each step was necessary for the current blessings. Then to know who has provided that for us and to know it was him all along. Great Thanks are given.
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that your blessing were made more apparent at this time of year. It is a great time of year.
How we spent time
Emery was a great helper she loved the bells notice them bunched together that is how the bottom of the tree is. Paiglee was just bouncing with excitement literally.
It was hard to get a good picture, Emery was distracted by the tree and felt it needing more trimming by her. She would move ornaments that Paiglee had put on, would give them to her and then replace it with her ornament. It was pretty cute! And Paiglee was great about it.
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