All About the Smiths

I can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week already! WOW!
I have SOOO much to be Thankful for this year. The biggest one being my wonderful baby girl. She has changed my life so dramatically, and I definitely wouldn't want to go back to life before her!

Josh and I are excited for this coming week. Tomorrow his brother, Joel, and his family will be coming to visit us. Saturday Josh's parents are getting here from Florida. Sunday and Monday we'll be spending time with Josh's family up at Northland and attending his sister Jenny's voice recital. Then Tuesday through the following Saturday the Smith family will all be coming to our house to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday. I know that we will have a busy week, but we are looking forward to seeing family that we haven't seen in at least a year and some longer than that.

So, if you don't hear from me in the blogging world, that is why!

Also, if you think about it, please pray for me. I have to go back to work the first week in December and I'm already dreading it. Please pray that the transition would go smoothly for all of us and that I would be able to keep my emotions in check!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We had a very busy Thanksgiving Weekend. Josh's sister Jenny and her friend Heidi came to stay with us for the weekend from Northland. We also had some other friends from Northland Vanessa and Kyle here for the weekend as well (they stayed with my parents.) We packed a ton of fun things into the weekend.

Wednesday night I broadened my horizons and baked pumpkin. I had never done it before, but it was pretty fun and turned out really well. My pies for Thursday even turned out great!!

Thursday was a beautiful day here in Wisconsin, so we took advantage of it and went out to a park Thursday afternoon and goofed off for a while.

Friday was of course our shopping day. We weren't really going out looking for anything in particular but we did find a few good deals along the way.

Saturday, Josh, Jenny, Heidi and I went out and cut down a Christmas tree and brought it home. All of us enjoyed that as it was a new experience for us all. We decorated the tree Sunday afternoon.

Here are a few of the pictures we took this past weekend. Pictures from our tree cutting adventure will come later. :)

The Lord has given me so many things to be Thankful for. I was reminded of that at church last night. The message was on Psalm 100. I was struck with the fact that I need to be Thankful ALL the time, and not just during this time of the year.

1	Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
2	Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3	Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4	Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him,and bless his name.
5	For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Here are a few of the things I am thankful for:

• My Salvation and the freedom to worship.
  
• My husband:
• He has a desire to serve in our church and is always looking for ways to help.
  
• He loves me and takes care of me.
• He is concerned about my needs as much as he is his own.
• I can laugh with him and we enjoy spending time together.
• He is smart and is always trying to learn.
• Because he picked me even though I don't deserve him.
  
• For the jobs that Josh and I have and that we have enough money to meet our needs.
  
• A loving and supportive family (both sets of parents).
• My Christian heritage.
• Good health.
• A good church to go to that teaches the Truth.
• A nice car that gets us where we need to go.
• A nice place to live.
• Friends.
• Plus many more....

I hope that you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Take the time to thank the Lord for the many blessings He has given you!