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My Heart is Full...

I love this time of year...I love the colors and the smells and the feeling.

I also have a very hard time expressing feelings without being reduced to a babbling idiot. Some of you are so eloquent in the way you are able to put down what you are thankful for. Not me. But I'll try. As hard as it is to be away from our families, we are so grateful to be here in Texas. We know this is where we belong. Sometimes I find myself driving down the roads that are becoming more and more familiar to me and I am overcome with gratitude. I love my kids so much and am so in awe of them and how they are growing up and who they are becoming. I am so in love with Maris and so grateful that he works so hard for us. I love my ward family here (both of them, now.) I don't know how I would have made it without you all. How thankful I am for old friends that are always there and for new friends. Maris and I have such wonderful families and we miss you all so much. And I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how it is the same no matter where we go. I am in awe of how our Heavenly Father knows each of us and sends us the blessings we need, and how he puts the people we need and who need us right where we need to be. We have so much to be grateful for.

We had a fantastic dinner with the Villas yesterday. Here is my photo essay of the day:

Yum, onions, celery and butter...fixin' to make the stuffing taste yummy!!

The aftermath of our meal...

The best part of the day, the dessert...8 pies in all...

From the back (below): pumpkin, apple, coconut cream, Razzleberry (thanks Marie Callendars!), chocolate (does this count as a real pie? it's chocolate pudding in a graham cracker crust), lemon meringue, banana cream and pecan. And Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla.

The missionaries stopped by and unfortunately the only picture I got of them was this one with them eating. Don't you hate it when people take your picture of you when you are eating?? I love these girls.

Were our eyes bigger than our stomachs? I think mine were!

I hope that all our friends and family had a great day yesterday, wherever you are...and that it started off a holiday season in which we will all remember our blessings and remember to give our thanks to our Father in Heaven.

Love you all!

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Misc....Blogworthy??

Some of the stuff that happened this week that may or may not be worth your time to read...Blogworthy? You decide:

WOW!!!

(I never thought I'd get excited about $3.03 a gallon!)

Last week at Parker's game...our cheerleaders all turned and watched their cheerleaders who (gasp) knew the SAME CHEERS as us! (I think that our little girls thought they had some exclusivity on them.) They don't know that "Go Bananas....B A N A N A S!" has been around for DECADES!

Here is Tyler on Thursday after his game. Tyler's team lost 22-0 but he sure looks cute. Next week we are playing Celina, which is, as all the locals know, THE BIG RIVALRY. In the words of the Coach: "no one needs to tell you how important this game is." hmmmm. FYI the game is Thursday at 5 at Prosper High.

Parker's cute artwork on display at the elementary school...they have a fun art teacher.

We had a couple of reunions this week. We had a "summer vacation reunion" with the McFarlands last Saturday. We met at Scotty P's to eat some really big cheeseburgers and some artery clogging french fries with "the works" which included cheese, onions, bacon and jalapenos. Then we headed over to Frisco Commons and let the kids run around on the fun playground and spin on the tire swing...see how good it made Aliza feel?

Tyler didn't want to be in the picture. I don't know why. Maybe it was too reminiscent of the car ride we took this summer...

A "Room Mom Reunion" was held on Thursday at La Madeleine's French Bakery...mmmm...french dip. These ladies were so fun to do activities with in Ms. Patton's class last year. Three of us have boys that are friends. In the front are the two Andrea's (V and O) and in the back are Tabitha and Kristin. We ate outside on the porch (it was a PERFECT day) and visited until we HAD to go because the kids were out of school. They are so fun. Tabitha leaves next week to go to Houston for some clinical trials for Liposarcoma. Keep her in your prayers for me, would ya? They need to have her tumors stop growing until she can have surgery again.