Happy Thanksgiving

Yes, I realize it's like 9 days until Christmas. I've been busy! We really had a nice Thanksgiving. Mimie came up to celebrate with us. It was very nice having her here. We were lucky to be house-sitting for some friends (who have a four bedroom house) so everyone got their own room! Almost every morning of her visit she got up with the kids and let us sleep in. We've really missed not having much extended family around to get to know our amazing kids so it's always nice to have them in town to show them off. :-)

We've definitely had a different year than ever before. We started off by selling our condo and moving with a 20 month old and 4 month old into an area about 1/4 the size. We are very thankful that we sold when we did and that we have such wonderful friends who are sharing their home with us. We enjoy living so closely together with our kids and it may even be preparing us to live in cramped quarters overseas one day. Thanksgiving also marked the one year point of being approved by the elders at RBC as supported missionaries. It's amazing to think that we've been raising our prayer and financial partners for a year now. We are so thankful as to how far we've come and we've definitely seen God's incredible faithfulness. It's been a difficult year with illnesses. Damien had a pretty rough summer. He's was tested for Mono and it seems like he had it back in April and is just taking a long time to recover. Another recent test showed that the dizziness and lightheadedness was a result of this illness. He's slowly feeling better and it's really nice to have him back. :-) We're looking forward to this year. We are so excited about moving to Dallas and becoming "real" missionaries. :-) God has a plan and we're looking forward to watching it unfold.

We've had a tradition of spending Thanksgiving with a family for the past 4 out of 5 years. Here is everyone during the inevitable "waiting for the turkey to cook" phase of the afternoon.

Yeah, dinner was finally ready. Joel brought a fellow Marine friend. Orin loved the "bread and butter" (can't have bread without butter).


Unlike Orin, Micaiah loves eating with utensils. He's already better at using them than Orin is. Micaiah definitely loves to eat and was really ready for the food.


Here is our "host" family and a happy Micaiah after the meal.