We love the Thanksgiving season! As a family we are still getting holiday traditions started. This year to count our blessings we decided to make a "Thankful chain." Every night after family scriptures we each took a strip of paper and wrote what we were thankful for that day. Our strips of paper slowly grew into a chain. I specifically cut out Christmas colors so that we could hang the chain on our Christmas tree to remind us to continue being grateful throughout the whole holiday season! Among the things that we are grateful for: Jesus Christ, Home, Running, Shelby, Car, Job, School, hot chocolate, and much more!!!
I love being able to look at our thankful chain on our Christmas tree and can't wait to keep doing it every holiday season!
The actual week of Thanksgiving and the holiday was a little different for us this year. Thanksgiving was my holiday to work this year and I also was scheduled to work that whole weekend. So, we celebrated and relaxed together Sunday through Wednesday.
On Monday we went on a much needed date. We walked around the Village and saw the cutest little outdoor ice skating rink...we are totally going back to skate one of these days!
We also bought our first pet...a beta fish which we named Mufasa. :) Since we can't really get any other pets until we have a house with some sort of yard, this will be our only pet for a little while-the joys of apartment living!
Monday night there was an Ecumenical (Interfaith-don't worry I had to look up the word too :) Thanksgiving Service that our stake participated in at St. John's Cathedral in Boise. I love cathedrals and was so excited to go!!! It was a little different than I thought it would be and I didn't get the greatest pictures of the cathedral with my phone, but you get the idea. Beautiful stained glass windows, singing with the great acoustics cathedrals provide, and very educational as far as learning about different faiths and cultures that are in the Treasure Valley!
We also decorated our Christmas tree prior to Thanksgiving. We usually wait until after Thanksgiving but like I said, this year we had to be flexible. Shelby went to Twin Falls to spend Thanksgiving with his parents and his siblings that could be there this year. I'm not going to lie, it was torture for both of us...I spent some time with my family after sending Shelby on his way to Twin and on Thursday night I went to my Grandparents for a short time after work and ate their Thanksgiving leftovers. I told Shelby to take some pictures while he was out of town but well, we have a lack of pictures. :) Oh well, we hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving and a great start to your December!!!
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