What a beautiful Thanksgiving season this has been! The weather has been unbeatable and I have so much to be thankful for! We woke up, watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, did some online Black Friday shopping and headed to my Grandma's to gather with family. We always have an assortment of appetizers at grandma's and I foolishly (as always) stuffed myself haha. Mostly on veggies though so I didn't feel too bad. Indie took like the longest nap ever and slept through a lot of the Thanksgiving festivities, and she wasn't to interested in trying any Thanksgiving food.... oh well! We ended the night as I always do, watching the grinch and lighting our Christmas tree! THE HOLIDAYS ARE THE BEST!

The Sunday following Thanksgiving, was the Thanksgiving themed church service. Wow! I was so overcome with the spirit and with gratitude. One of the speakers quoted Elder Uchtdorf and said something along the lines of, having gratitude isn't just about being happy with the situation you are currently in. It is much like faith and having gratitude for things that can come, in the "big picture". I'd never really heard that before. I've always just thought, I should be grateful for what I have now... which I should.. but what about the things that I can and will have? It hit me hard! This life isn't always easy, but we have a loving Heavenly Father that makes it all worth it, and I am truly grateful for that! I wish I had written my thoughts down sooner after that Sunday because now I've forgotten many of my feelings... but I am just very happy with my life and what I have and may have in the future!

This post is about 2 holidays too late, but whatever! Soo having a child has slowed me down as far as my festiveness around holidays, so I may not have watched all the Halloween movies I wanted to and I didn't carve a pumpkin, but I still managed to put together a family costume! And I'm in love with it!


"One little monkey swinging in the tree... Teasing Mr Crocodile, can't catch me!! Along comes Mr Crocodile quiet as can be aaaand SNAPPED that monkey right out of that tree!"

The 2 best things about this costume are:

1. Indie makes this hilarious O face and it's perfect for her monkey costume

2. She actually LOVES this song. She smiles so big and totally anticipates the snap. It's the best.

We did celebrate at my grandma's with Chili and donuts, plus allll of Indie's cousins were there (except Sophie and Alfie they live in England). And on Halloween we put on the Spooky dinner again for Chance's family which was a lot of work, but also very fun. Cheesy potato soup with pumpkin shaped carrots in it, green breadsticks, cuties that looked like pumpkins, banana ghosts. Chance's dad set up his turtle tent and they decorated it all fun and filled it with leaves, which was a really fun atmosphere! And I was all proud of my dinner tablescape haha. --We also ended the spooky dinner with a murder mystery, which I kicked off by choking on my drink and dying. No one knew I was going to do it, so I think some people were genuinely concerned, until Chance started his script as the host! But my 2 year old nephew came over to me while I was "dead" on the ground and kept saying, "You okay? You okay?" with the most darling concerned look on his face. We did a big scavenger hunt around the farm and ended the night with candy!  It was a good holiday, even though I didn't take like a single picture on the actual holiday... haha trying to be present I guess? ;)