So Excited For Thanksgiving!

Elder Meehan and other service missionaries in his area.
(At dinner with some people from their ward. So kind--they are often provided dinner.)


 Reasons I'm Excited For Thanksgiving


1. My family is coming to dinner. (From out of state!)

2. Even though it's our first Thanksgiving without Elder Meehan, he told us he'd been invited to SEVEN different homes for dinner that day. (We love Indiana peeps!)

3. I have a reason to bake a lot of bread--and cook some of my favorite things. 

 4. Thanksgiving reminds me of some of my most favorite Survivor friends. (It's an interesting phenomenon, but when people "starve" for a period of time, one coping mechanism is to talk about food. A lot. And both times I played Survivor that was the case; I always ended up talking about "Your Ideal Thanksgiving" with the other players. I think Sophie, Whitney and I bonded over some Thanksgiving menus in the South Pacific. And Michael and I definitely talked turkey in Caramoan. Great memories.)

4. Dave and I are off work; the kids are out of school.

5. While it's cold here in Utah, it's not FREEZING cold (yet).

6. We have so much to be grateful for, and I'm happy we get a holiday/time to take inventory of it all.



PS: Here are some of our son's most silly photos from his mission this week.


Apparently the bed in his mission apartment is a hospital bed. FUN!


He and his new companion--who both seem to have mastered the silly face.
(It's a missionary thing. I think. I hope.)


PS: Happy Hannukah to all of my Jewish friends. (It begins on sundown Wed, right?)

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