Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.  

I have so much to be grateful for this wonderful season. I love this time of year with family and friends and good food.  What could be better.
I am so hoping all of you have great time for Thanksgiving with someone that you love.  I am thankful for my wonderful friends, blogging friends and my precious family for 4 great sons and one beautiful daughter and family.  I am thankful for a Loving Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.  I am so grateful for our home in the country and for all of the blessing that we enjoy!    I hope all of you have the best Thanksgiving ever!

Christmas is coming soon!

I started decorating this week even though we are not over Thanksgiving yet.  I am looking forward to next week with all of my family here and good food!  I just don't want to have everything to do all at once.  So I have been doing the porch.  I took these pics.  Love this first picture, well, I like all the ones with my grandson!!  I will have to practice to get better with my camera!

These trees are on either side on my front door. I am not finished yet. I will put a few wrapped boxes underneath.

I love watching my grandson discover all of these new things.

They call Alabama the Crimsom Tide!

I just have two words to say...
ROLL TIDE!!!

Fall Leaves

He's getting so big.

While I am recuperating from hernia surgery the kids have taken over the camera.  Clarissa took these playing in the leaves and Daniel took these out in the pasture behind our house.

 

Reminds me of the scared grove.  Except that's the Flint River behind us.

Deer stand.  We have lots of deer on our property.

Looking up into the tree stand.

There are so many ferns growing wild back behind us.   Dan took some great pics.   I like the lines of the trees.

I love the interesting light that Dan took, the dark on one side and the light on the other.  Isn't it cool!

Blessings for having Family Home Evening.

I found this site and thought you might find it helpful for strengthening the family.

http://lds.families.com/blog/prophetic-promises-of-family-home-evening

Blessings for having consistent Family Home Evening: Greater blessings will result - Love at home will increase - Obedience to parents will increase - Faith will be developed in the hearts of the youth - The youth will gain power to combat the evil influences and temptations which beset them - A greater measure of peace and harmony in the home - Will bring families closer together - Families will be blessed with better feelings between husband and wife and all family members

- Couples will receive strength - Not one in a hundred of your family will go astray - Deeply increases personal worth, family unity, and love for our fellow man, and trust in our Heavenly Father.

 ideas for FHE:

http://www.mormonshare.com/fhe/fhe-printables.php

 free lds clipart:

http://lds.about.com/library/gallery/clipart/blclipart_gallery_subindex.htm

I have a testimony of regular FHE in the home.

Sandy

Scott's Apple Orchard

Everyone thinks that Marky looks just like Stephen did when he was little.  I have pictures of Michael when he was little and you can't tell  Mik and Mar apart.

Boys and their stinky rotten apples!!

A Game of Chase in the Orchard!

I got cha!

Here ya go U. Rob

 

Have I ever said that Marky adores his uncles and they adore him?!

I LOVE THESE GUYS SO MUCH!!

Love this Pic.  Mark spots the caramel apple!

Take the plastic off.  There ya go!

Fun day at the apple orchard.  My leg wasn't doing to well so I just hung back while they explored.  The kids took all the pics.  I thought they did a great job.   It's a tradition that we go each year at Apple time.  Oh the wonderful smells when you enter in.   We always buy apples(I think they have the best), fresh cidar and caramel apples of course!

We are all enlisted til the conflict is o'er!

I had to get a large shot of cortizone in my knee today.  They go up under the knee cap and Jab it all around.  And, YES it hurts  like heck!!  They gave me some meds and sprayed down with cold/ice that numbs the outside.  I have had one before a few months back, and the medicine that they put in my knee does help a lot!! But it just hurts so darn bad when injecting it, but this time was much better than last time.  Anyway,  I closed my eyes and started singing  "We are all Enlisted, til the conflict is o'er"!! ha ha.  funny now, but it helped get me through it.  The assistant that gave it to me started laughing.  My daughter even came for moral support and she asked him if any one else sang, he surprisingly said yes.  He had about 20 people do it, so I didn't feel so crazy, but really I didn't care if  he thought it or not.  Funny that was the song that came into my mind!!!

Hernia surgery next week, Here we go again!!