Our first Thanksgiving as a family!
I wanted to be sure to post pictures of our Thanksgiving Day meal today, so you all could see. It was a nice time, but I have to say that for my first Thanksgiving away from home, I really missed all of you! I was doing okay in the morning until I started watching the parade on TV and that made me feel like I should be sitting in Grandma's kitchen with my Mom, Aunt Karen, Jen, Grandma, and probably Aunt Linda, and Aunt Donna helping chop and peel things and get ready while watching the parade on the small kitchen TV set! I had a few short bouts of tears in the morning, but felt better once we got to Skype with the Hanns in the morning and then most of the Henry/Bussard clan in the afternoon! We also got to Skype with some of the Fix family after we got home from dinner too, so it was nice to still see a lot of familiar faces even if we weren't there to share the day with you in person!
Harley, Erin, and Damon
Our dinner at the Frigate Bay Resort with our church group (CCF) was great! There was tons of food and a really good turnout...probably close to 50 people! Isaiah was getting kind of tired though and didn't want to sit in his high chair, so it wasn't quite the nice relaxing holiday meal that Josh and I had imagined! Although...I'm not sure that nice, relaxing holiday meal will exist for quite a few years again in the future, so we should probably get used to it! It was nice to spend time with our friends and nice for all the students to get away from campus and be able to talk about things NOT having to do with school for a while!
The right half of the room
Isaiah decided about halfway through Thanksgiving Day that he was an ace at this walking thing and hasn't really slowed down since! I think he's really proud of himself and we are too! Yesterday he walked almost everywhere....I told Josh he only crawled about 2% of the time yesterday! He's getting so big and looking more grown up everyday! He continues to improve his language skills as well.....I think he's up to 13 or 14 words he can say now! What's even more crazy that he can say that many words is that he knows what they mean! Yesterday he was flipping through a book he has that's about a family of ducks. I was doing something in the kitchen not really paying attention and he just started saying, "Duck, duck, duck" and I turned around and sure enough he was pointing to all the little ducks in the book! When he wants a drink now too, he'll come over to my cup and say, "wawa" for water. I'm just amazed that he's putting it all together in his head already!
The left half of the room
Yesterday was a regular day at home except Jakki came over and we ate lunch together here at our place and watched Angels and Demons together. We had a good time and it's always nice to spend time with her! Isaiah calls her "Jak" and even put the "K" sound on the end of it yesterday for the first time! In the evening, we ran out to the store to get some ingredients for Josh to make a vegan dessert for our dinner this afternoon and realized we are having some car issues, so Josh decided to take it to the garage this morning. He returned to ask if I wanted to hear the bad news or the really bad news first! EEK! The garage was closed because the owner is out of town until tomorrow apparantly, so Josh turned around to come home and as he was pulling into our driveway, the car shut off! We're going to see if some friends that are good with cars will take a look at it sometime this weekend and see about getting it to the garage on Monday....prayers would be appreciated that we can get everything taken care of quickly and affordably, so Josh can get back to studying for finals!
Josh and Isaiah chatting with some friends in the back of the room
This afternoon, we are headed to Jason and Jen (and Ava too) Chin's apartment for Thanksgiving dinner with our family away from home of our great friends here. Everyone is bringing a dish or two to share and Jen and Jakki are both making turkeys and I'm really looking forward to it. Things are usually crazy here with all the student spouses needing to study, so it's really nice when we can all relax and spend some time together. Isaiah is napping now, so hopefully he'll be in a good mood and be a little more cooperative this time around too! I hope you all had wonderful Thanksgivings with your family and friends. We missed being home with you, but we have also really realized what a great support system we have here in our friends and church family, which has been a blessing too. We're excited though to spend the next holiday at home with all of you who we love so much! Have a great weekend!
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