Thanksgiving 2010

 Our Thanksgiving was similar to ones past.  But we missed Mike's brother's family this year!!  Its so nice to be close enough to see both of our families over the long weekend.  

We had Brunch at Kathy's on Thursday morning and enjoyed time with Mike's parents and the Murphys.  The new cute kids table was a hit!

 We did some relaxing

 and playing

Thurs eve, we go to Mike's aunt's house for a turkey dinner with the Kain side...

(i love my husband, isn't he handsome!)

Mike's cousin has a beautiful new baby who we enjoyed seeing.

 Lily also enjoyed this baby doll

and tried to steal the football from cousin Charlie ;)

 Peter and Liam had a blast playing together

 and eating cake together

and seeing Great Grandma (it was her bday last week!) and Great Granddad

Friday morning, our little family of 4 relaxed around here, which I loved.  We had pumpkin pancakes then Peter and Lily chased each other around the house squealing.  :)

 We headed to L'ville mid-day on Friday.  I didn't take many pics there but I did find this one with my two favorite girls on my camera.  We also got to see Glenda and J&J.

Saturday afternoon, we headed back to Richmond for some more time with the P's.

Peter is quite taken with Liam...

 They had TV ("JB") time with their dogs, Jip and Spicey, as they caught up on Clifford!

 One last pretty pic of the girl.

We loved seeing each person on both sides.  Thanks to our moms for feeding us yummy food throughout the weekend w/o any contribution on our part.  We are blessed and thankful for our sweet families.

I am excited that its the season of Advent.  I've not always been a big Christmas person, I don't love the hype, shopping/gift buying, and I don't love cold weather, snowflakes, Santa, etc.  But as I've been thinking about Advent and the anticipation of celebrating Christ coming and looking forward to/ waiting for his Second Coming, I feel joy in that!  As much as I am thankful for the good life we have and ALL there is to be thankful for, I also often struggle with feeling the weight of living in a world where things aren't right (people die, my soul isn't fully satisfied, there's cancer, poverty, etc), how exciting is it that Jesus came to save us!!  I am looking forward to a month of really thinking about that.  Right now we get a taste of what's its like that He is making things right/ redeeming (we are assured through Jesus' blood that our loved ones are in heaven, we see His work in us, around us) but one day, oh, one day things will be fully right.  So we will anticipate, wait and celebrate this Advent season!