Thanksgiving is such a fantastic holiday! I feel like it is so perfect that a day devoted to giving thanks is also the kick-off to the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ! We have no greater blessing than God’s gift of His Son! And I am going to take this opportunity to say that I have a testimony of the living, resurrected, Lord, Jesus Christ. I have a testimony that He was born in Bethlehem to a virgin mother; that He lived a perfectly sinless life; that He suffered and died for my sins and those of all who will ever live on this earth. I have a testimony that He was, indeed, resurrected on the third day! And I have a testimony that He lives today and that He leads His Church–The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints–through His Prophet, Thomas S. Monson. And the testimony that I have of Him truly is something to be thankful for!
Anyway, our celebration this year was particularly lovely! We spent Thanksgiving with just our nuclear family, which turned out to be great for several reasons. One reason was that we didn’t have any kind of dead-line on getting our food ready–it was a really good thing because we didn’t defrost our turkey long enough. 🙂 Another reason it was great was that the kids got to take their normal naps, and therefore better enjoy the day. It was also fun because there aren’t very many times when we get to spend an entire day with all of us together!
This was our Thanksgiving Dinner!
This is the family at the table! We decided to go with disposable dishes this year because we spent WAY TOO LONG on dishes last year. Also, Josh was a saint and did tons of dishes as he was preparing things, and so we really didn’t have much clean-up afterwards!
We had the following delicious foods: mashed potatoes and gravy (or as Fay says “masha patoes and gavy”), stuffing, turkey, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, rolls, cranberry sauce, and pie!
We gave Carter a pile of mashed potatoes to eat all by himself. He tried a bite or two and then mostly just played with them the rest of the time. Â Isn’t that face PRICELESS?!
Thursday evening, we set up our Christmas tree! Fay LOVES the Christmas tree! She loves putting on and taking down ornaments; she loves when we have all the lights on; and she loves getting “Christmas tree medicine” when she has “owies.” Carter also got really excited about putting the tree up. He could tell that something significant was happening, even if he wasn’t quite sure what it was.
This is Josh and Fay putting the star on top of the tree. Carter is the overseer.
On Friday, we got a Black Friday deal of a new couch. It actually wasn’t a deal from a store, and the couch isn’t really “new.” But the couch is new to us, and it was a great deal, and we bought it on Black Friday!
This is Carter being adorable on our new couch today. Josh is on the floor looking at Magic cards.
We had a great Thanksgiving! And we are so grateful to be an Eternal family!