So much to be thankful for...

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! Grandma from North Dakota came down on Tuesday to start the preparations. We made lefse and flat bread for the first time. I've been in the family for almost 10 years now and haven't had the chance to make it, so it was a real treat to experience this family tradition. The kids had a great time with it. Connor and Carson were in and out, but Kaelynn stuck with it for quite a while. She loves to help in the kitchen!!!

All the hard work of the two days before really paid off on Thursday! We had great food and a great time celebrating with family and friends. Grandpa and Grandma from North Dakota, Grandma Ruth, and the Bundy's all came over. The Bundy's are friends from church. Greta watches Kaelynn when I teach and Jonas is a pastor at Bethel with Andy. They moved to North Dakota in July from Texas and their extended family is in Wyoming, so we were pleased to have them celebrate with us!

Zoe and Grover are 5 and 4 and have a great time with our kids. The Bundy's also have another another boy Truett who is 1 1/2 years old!

Grandma has started a Thanksgiving tradition of reading a Thanksgiving book and acting it out with pilgrim and native american costumes. The actors did a great job and were very believable!!!

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We sure did!

Concert

Yep, that's Point of Grace and Mark Schultz with Andy, my mom, and I. The concert was at our church on Friday evening. It was a great concert! They all have amazing voices and amazing stories and awesome hearts! I've always loved Point of Grace. Their music has encouraged me many times in my life. One of their Christmas CD's is my all-time favorite CD. And to think they sang on the very stage that I sang on this morning. Okay, that's a little "crazy fan" sounding- I'm not that bad, but it was really fun to have them here.

Halloween fun

There is one main difference between trick or treating in North Dakota and trick or treating in Iowa. The temperature you are walking in. We layered as much as we could under those costumes and they managed to stay warm enough, but when you're dealing with 30 degree temperatures you can only do so much! They're little ears were pretty red when they came in. They had a lot of fun though! Kaelynn was a ladybug, Carson a soldier, and Connor a firefighter. They were pretty cute!!

In my day of trick or treating we were given one maybe two peanut butter kisses but certainly only one fun size candy bar per house. Now they are given 3-4 candy bars per house. Oh my goodness!! We have candy coming out our ears!!! I'm trying to think of creative ways to get rid of some of it. And not creative ways to consume them myself!!!