Home for the Holidays

 

Thanksgiving. 

I love Thanksgiving.

I love the smells. The food.  The family.  The love.

All of it.

And this Thanksgiving I got to go home and celebrate with my family and also enjoy 70 degrees of sunshiny awesomeness.
  
The week was awesome, relaxing and a chance to catch up with those I love.  We did a lot of eating and a lot of hanging out and it was a great change to our normally busy lives.  The week flew by and before we knew it it was Thanksgiving day and my Grandparents came over to celebrate with us.  We had enough food to feed a small army, but it was still delicious many meals later.

We had the works- ham, turkey, green been caserole, stuffing, sweet potato caserole, rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie etc. It was mmm mm gooood. 

After the meal we cleaned up the kitchen sat back and relaxed before going out in the woods and partaking in an actual Thanksgiving tradition (not ours, but the settlers).  Target shooting.

*Always use extreme caution when handling any sort of fire arm- they can be extremly dangerous*

We've never gone out as a family to shoot so it was an experience all in itself and Callie-girl had never shot a weapon.  Needless to say she was stoked to be able to do so!

We had a blast finished and then finished the night with some hot cocoa.

Meet Ema.

After I got married my parents bought a Havenese puppy and she is a funny little dog!

Also, a little bundle of a cuteness :)

She is one well loved pup ;)

Mom, Dad, Chris and Callie.
We love you guys so much!! Thanks for the awesome week and your continued love and support, I couldn't ask for a better family!
Love,

Carrie and Joel

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side note:

 

 Happy Birthday to my Daddy!!

I hope you have an awesome day!
Wish we could be there to celebrate with you.
Love you bunches!!

Lil More Favorite

A few weeks ago I was supposed to be starting a weekly blog with my friends Nicole and her Mom, Marie.... well lets just say a weekly blog is a bit of stretch for me.... seeing as how out of 3 posts I have done zero. Oops. 

Today is the day that will change, here is my week three blog (maybe one of these days I'll get around to doing week one and two) Today's blog is about "A little more favorite". I have a lot of 'little more favorites', things that are a little more favorite then other things, and things that are a lot more favorite then most things. 

 Flowers.

The other week my hubby surprised me with tulips.  I woke up on a sunny Saturday morning to a clean kitchen and a beautiful bouquet of tulips awaiting me.  Just because he loves me.

Just because flowers are a little more favorite.

Fall.

I love the colors of fall, the crisp air, the smell of woodsmoke, the holidays approaching, the closeness of family and the feeling of community.  It brings back memories of walks in the woods looking at the trees and the way they magically change colors. Also, the the fact that thanksgiving is coming up with yummy things like pumpkin and apple pie, sweet potato casserole, honey baked ham and oven roasted turkey, mmmmmm (I'm making myself hungry). 

Yes, Fall is definitely a little bit favorite.

My husband.

He's more then a little bit favorite. He's a LOT bit favorite.  I'd be lost without him, God totally knew what he was doing when he stuck Joel in my life.  I'm still astounded by the way God brought us together and the fact that we can honestly say we met in a castle in Germany (sounds more romantic then it was, but it's still cool!).  But yes, *happy sigh* he's my favoritist favorite.

And those are a few of my favorites.  Though, I have SO many more.

Be blessed!

Carrie