We give thanks this year!
For Guests Unseen
On Thanksgiving morning, we took time to give thanks to God. Danny wanted to give thanks for God and Jesus! I can't post a picture of them, because they are unseen. But they are real in our hearts and spirits. We want our children to grow up to believe and know God as much as they believe and see people and things around them.
For Healthy Food
I was tickled to find luscious blackberries for just a dollar a carton Thanksgiving week, so we had a beautiful fruit platter for breakfast. We usually go to relatives on Thanksgiving Day, which is something to be thankful for, that we have family who love us and whom we love. At the same time, I miss having our own family dinner traditions and getting to make special holiday meals at home! I am a homebody who loves my own home and family. But we try to make up for it a bit by putting extra effort and specialties into our holiday breakfasts. Lots of protein and pretty colors! Jonathan makes omelets while the rest of us fix the fillings and work at other things. Here was one of the omelets before it got folded up. Well, it didn't fold!
Thankful for pies! This year we went to my sister Iva's down in Pueblo West. She made blueberry, cherry, mincemeat and pecan pies, while we contributed apple and pumpkin pies.
I loved these simple decorations Iva had on her table: a craft from one of her children's Sunday School classes, and a plate Elisa arranged with tea lights and pine cones, leaves and miniature harvest fruits.
More decorations on their bar counter.
Iva working hard in the kitchen getting everything ready while I ooh and ahh over her cooking and decorations and all the simple things that add to life's joys if received with a thankful heart.
Kenny and Sammy seeing just how much their heights differ! Kenny is a little younger.
Kenn explaining about some of his Miller family traditions as our two families and a friend, "Uncle" Carl, take our places at the table. I ended up sitting down on parts of two different benches at once put end to end beside Jonathan. The only trouble was that the beenches were different heights by about 2 inches. It's a good thing I am not too stuck in tradition to move a little bit!
"We will sing the doxology, which is a Miller tradition for Thanksgiving," says Kenn.
When Iva found out how much I miss a turkey centerpiece, she set it on whole and she and Kenn carved it together.
Here are the little ones at their table, including Regi, Timmy, Evan, Danny and Sarah.
Rose and Krissy hussle with a game of Dutch Blitz.
Now there is a lot more hussling with Dad and Iva joining the game.
Elisa and Carrie play croquet outside.
Elisa and Carrie playing an indoor matching game.
Iva showed me some of our old friends who are on Facebook. I enjoyed seeing familiar faces with all their children or grandchildren. It was just overwhelming seeing people I knew 20 years ago, and now they have children getting married or grandchildren! Yikes! What does that say about how old we are getting?
Poor Jonathan's lap becomes a toy box.
After a very sound sleep (Due to the Golden Rule, I will spare you the picture I took while he was sleeping! :) , Jonathan gets fed Christmas shaped pretzels by Hannah.
