So Much To Be Thankful For

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I wanted to take a second to pause and say that our family has so much to be thankful for. We live in a free country with so much at our disposal, we are healthy, our families are healthy, we have good friends and good families, and we know that God has blessed us in so many ways. Sometimes it can be easy to "forget" all that we truely have to be thankful for as we get busy with the demands of life, but I'm so glad there is a holiday like Thanksgiving that just allows us to take time out to focus on just being thankful. So, we're headed off to Hartfield tomorrow to meet up with my family to celebrate the holiday. We won't be back until the end of the week, so I'll update the blog site with Thanksgiving pictures then.

In explanation of these pictures, I was trying to get Nina to smile on command (since we have holiday pictures coming up), and the first one didn't work for getting a smile. The second time I got a hint of a smile, but then I asked her to show her teeth (meaning, when she smiled), and the third picture is what that request produced!