Happy Thanksgiving.

I am so grateful for my Savior, for my husband, for each of my children, their spouses, and my grandchildren.  I am thankful to live in a beautiful area, in a comfortable and spacious home.  I am thankful for good health, and the ability to do the activities that I love to do.  I have been richly blessed--spiritually, physically and materially.  I hope that I will never be guilty of the sin of ingratitude.

It has been a wonderful week to reflect upon the blessings of my life and to spend time with almost all of my children and grandchildren.

Wednesday, Roy, Caitlyn, and I, met Adrienne, Jieun, Hyeji, Doyeon, Yuna, Gunnar, Ollie and Finn at the ice rink to "practice" for the Christmas show.  I sure hope we can pull this off.  They'll be pretty cute regardless of their performance.

  

Caitlyn at work--You can see why they
put her on register all the time--she gets tips!

There are no skating pictures of Gunnar and Yuna because they didn't stay on the ice long enough.

This year, I was able to enjoy turkey prepared by Roy on three separate occasions.  He cooked the first turkey for work, and left me some of the turkey and dressing before he left.  I made soup out of the carcus that night.  He made the 2nd turkey for the YSA ward's family night.  This time without worrying about dressing, but it was still delicious.  And of course, the third turkey was for Thanksgiving.  He makes a great turkey dinner.  Thanks to everyone for all your contributions to the meal (Dan & Jieun--mashed potatoes, Adrienne and AJ--rolls, and Crista, green bean casserole. Roy made the turkey and dressing, and I made my famous pomegranate salad.  Pies were made by Costco).

Thanksgiving morning we took a walk with Crista, Matt, Ruby, and Nick and Ori.  We usually try to take a little hike, but decided a walk would be fine since our trail had snow on it and all our winter gear was in storage.  We  certainly thought that our house would be done before we had to unpack it.  Unfortunately, we were wrong.  We now have a few boxes in our current home to be unpacked for winter use.

Effie is such a happy baby

Ruby, chillin' on the couch while staying with us for Thanksgiving

The holiday weekend culminated with a trip to the train store with Grandpa Roy.  Grandma Catharine stayed home to get her house in some semblance of order.  I think they all had a good time.

For some reason, this picture is sideways--I geuss it's because I turned my phone sideways to take it. Anyway, you get the idea.  I finished this quilt top this past week.  I don't have any idea how many hours I put into it, or how much I spent.  I kept the receipts, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to know the answer.  Now to get it quilted.