Prayer Room

This past weekend, I got to see for the first time the plaque created in memory of Mom. The church named the prayer and conference room for her because of her unwavering commitment to prayer.After reading "Same Kind of Different as Me" (there was a picture of loved ones in a chapel that was named for a great woman of God who worked with the homeless) I wanted to make sure we got our picture with it.
This Thanksgiving I'm extremely thankful for a legacy of prayer and faith left by a Proverbs 31 woman! That legacy will be passed on to her daughters and grandkids!

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

Here's Kara annual Thankful tree. See a previous year's here.

Some notable "leaves" are vechtibls (vegetables), sevinteen (the #17), speseels (Speziales), prpl (purple) and Gob (God).
Happy Thanksgiving!

Last bit of Thanksgiving 2010

Random pics from our Thanksgiving celebration in NO particular order.

A Quick Visit

We got to visit with the Carrolls (well some of them) on Thanksgiving day before we left for Chicago. Kara and Asher enjoyed some good cousin time.And some good food (thank you, Grandpa, for a nice breakfast!)
I think here Asher is saying, "Who are you and what are you doing?"
Grandpa with his two youngest grand"babies"
Goodbye, Asher! We'll see you for longer next time!

Cutting the bread for Thanksgiving Stuffing

Every year, the youngest children in the family get the job of cubing the bread for my mom's (originally my grandma's) famous Savory Stuffing. This year, Nik, Sophia and Kara had that honor. They did a pretty good job!


(If you look closely, Nik's knife is upsidedown because he thought it worked better that way. Just goes to show how dull the knives that we give them are!)
The kids got tired after a bit and then the professionals had to take over:
Yummy!
And here's some pics of the the two cute non-bread cutting grandkids!
And one more of NikNik because he's such a ham!

Our Thankful Tree (and teeth)

Kara and I made a Thankful Tree. I stole this idea from another blog (don't remember where...sorry!). The leaves are all the things that she is thankful for.

Here's when we started...

Notice the ONE missing tooth:



And today we finally finished it.

A closeup of some of the leaves (decorated with stickers and glitter, of course)
And here are TWO missing teeth.

Fun with Thanksgiving

Just some cute, Thanksgiving cookies.