Thanksgiving...belated

This Thanksgiving was a little bit different from all the rest. Our first as a married coupleJ The whole week was amazing. Sunday was our debut at the Star 2nd Ward. We were able to speak on Thanksgiving. Our wonderful parents came to hear us speak and I loved watching them…My mothers proud tears streaming almost the whole time, and Pam and Richard with their proud beaming smiles. It really was an excellent meeting full of the spirit. Stephen is an incredible public speaker. Monday and Tuesday were fantastic Stephen and I got to spend lots of time together then Wednesday, he was off to the station and my wonderful sister Ainslee rolled into town with her darling kidos. Thanksgiving day was pretty intense for me. I woke up at my mom’s house and spent time with them in the morning then I was off to the station to have dinner with my darling husband and 17 strangersJ It was really nice though, it was interesting to see all these families come together with different thanksgiving traditions and beliefs. I had a great time talking with everyone after dinner, while Stephen fell asleep in the recliner watching football. After that I headed to catch the tail end of Dinner with my parents at the Budge residence. I sat with Toni and Sydney as we discussed the movie New Moon for 2 hours it was awesome. Then I got to go to the Murrays and build gingerbread houses!! SO much fun, the kids had a blast. I helped Jaxon (who mixed up his holidays a bit and was wearing a s.w.a.t. team outfit….adorable) make his a ‘super candyland’ and then moved on to my own. Last year was my first experience with making these gingerbread houses I had no idea how I would manage without Stephen. Luckily Jonathan and Robby stepped up to the plate and helped their struggling sister-in-law. We had a great time and Jonathan gave it the old BSU roof! Which I’m sure helped them win the WAC championship the following day! Anyway, after that it was back to the parents home for some games then bedtime. It was an exhausting day, I had places to be and people to see! But when it was all over I stopped to really take in all that I was grateful for. I am very blessed and very thankful for everything, and at the end of the craziness it came down to how grateful I was for every single person I stopped to see that day; The most important people in my Life and I was glad I was able to spend a part of it with all of them. I hope everybody had a wonderful thanksgiving, I sure did.