Our First Thanksgiving at Home

So, Ryan and I have been married for seven years, and we've always gone home for Thanksgiving. Even when I was 5 days from delivering Trevor, we made the trek home to Fort Wayne. This year, I had to take my turn at the hospital to work, and Ryan had to work the day after Thanksgiving. Life has been crazy busy with work, school & church, so we did our best to create our first memories at home. We truly deliberated between cooking at home or going to The China Buffet. I opted for a home cooked meal.









I loved the idea of creating a "thankful tree", so Wednesday we went out and cut a limb off our pear tree. I cut out leaves, and during dinner we took turns writing what we were thankful for. I made three for each of us, and when we were finished Ryan said, "Don't you have any more leaves? We still have more blessings to add." I agreed with him. We do have much to be thankful. I hope to laminate the leaves and continue to add to them next year. I thought I would share some of our thoughts.

Trevor:
I am thankful for
1. My daddy
2. The earth (thanks to Tam, his eyes have been opened. She gave him the LeapFrog globe.)
3. The scriptures

Kayla:
I am thankful for:
1. For Jesus
2. My mommy
3. The new dog

Ryan & Melissa:
We are thankful for:
1. Our family. We truly have the greatest families. They so willingly sacrifice for us. Like roofing for 4 days straight in the rain without complaining!
2. Our health.
3. Our oven. Read previous post. Ryan wrote on his leaf, "Mama's thankful for the oven; Daddy's thankful for what come out of the oven."

Although we were away from family this year, we enjoyed our first one together.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!