Our Thanksgiving started on Friday with my side of the family that is about 10 for dinner. It has been kind of nice the last couple of years I have been doing the Thanksgiving meal for my family and starting our traditions with them at our home.
This year after dinner Kristin, Edgar and my nephew James and his girlfriend Nancy went to see New Moon. The guys had no choice , Edgar fell asleep. Did not help they had to sit on the first row.

Today was a quite but sweet and blessed day. Our traditions are we wake up early for Macy's day parade and while we are watching it I'm in the kitchen putting the last touches on lunch. Chris' mom came down for lunch and it was just a nice time to enjoy each other. Another tradition of ours is we go to the movie Thanksgiving evening to see our first Christmas movie for the season. This year it was Disney's The Christmas Carol. It was good but not like the first one.

Well Friday starts the our next tradition Chris and I going to the early morning shopping. We will be standing in line at 2am, YES 2am, but we have gotten really good deals so we go do that go have breakfast and then come home and take a nap before putting up the Christmas tree.

Now we have one last Thanksgiving dinner for Chris' side of the family on Sunday and then we will truly be done with Thanksgiving holiday.

This year has been a year of blessings and our blog family is one of the the biggest ones. This week Alissa rededicated her life to the Lord and I'm so happy for her. The last few years have been hard for her and she has been trying to do it on her own and we all know that just will not do as a Christian we need to lend on Him. She is ready to do so. Please keep her in your prayers. Kristin has truly done a 180 degree turn to the Lord from last year and I'm so proud of her. She is on fire for Him, also keep her in your prayers to just bind the hands of Satan in her life.

Thank ya'll for the love that ya'll have shown to our family, we do love each one of ya'll.

The last couple of days have been CRAZY. First, Kristin got ran over the road by a woman not watching where she was going and Kristin ended up in a ditch but she was pulled out by a Good Samaritan with a tractor. Second, Alissa had been sick for about week with her IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and yesterday she got much worse and we ended up taking her to the hospital. We spend most of the day there but she is feeling better. It is never boring but thank you God for putting a hedge of protection over my girls. Kristin is safe and nothing is wrong with her jeep. Alissa is home feeling better and prayers were answered that she was not put in the hospital over night. God is Good!

I told ya'll about us voting last Sunday to go on a Mission Trip but the real work starts now. Chris has told the youth that we can't just go on a Mission Trip without starting here close to home. This has started a mission project monthly for the youth to be active in from doing someone yard to feeding the homeless and whatever else we can do to help. So this past Thursday evening we took a small group to a elderly lady's home that is in our church to work in her yard. We were very proud of them because of their attitude and willingness to help with no pat on the back. It was a messy job but they did it, see it has been raining here alot and we would step on the ground our feet just sank but they went on and had fun. Last night they truly showed a servants heart.

Today we had a vote at church with youth group and parents to decide if we were going to go on a ski or mission trip. This is a very young youth group most of them have not done either one. So now it went on cost and MISSION TRIP won. We had a few kind of upset about not going skiing but I think it will work out for the best. So here we come BIG CREEK MISSIONS, Kentucky.

One of my friends (Vicky) was saying that our blogs have been neglected because of FB and Yes,Vicky you are right I have been neglecting my blog page and I'm sorry about that. So to let ya'll know some maybe new stuff and some repeated from FB.

Chris and I have been real busy with the youth and trying to get it to grow and to really minister to each one of the youth and their families. Our youth they just need alot of prayer and love from God and us. This past month we have had two youth saved PRAISE GOD! We also had a good family join our church and it has been a true blessing.

You know that Kristin goes to another church and one sunday she helped her daddy and I out with youth a Sunday afternoon. That Sunday she saw Dusty(one of the youth from our last church) and Chris said it was a hallmark monent as they ran to each other and hugged. They are so cute!

Alissa has applied for a short term mission trip this summer to Italy she is really wanting to do this or at least one like it. Please be praying for her. We will let ya'll know the outcome and dates of the trip.

I will try to get better with the blogging again.