One of our goals soon after taking the last box out of the moving van, was to have both cars in the garage before the end of the year. Well, we beat that deadline this past week! It's one of those milestones of moving when you get enough of your your stuff stuffed away to actually use the garage for your cars.
There's still a lot to organize and straighten, but at least we can get the cars in!
Visitors
God has blessed us with a steady stream of visitors since we arrived in town. Our latest visitors were Sam & Mary (with their daughter Cathy, from Greensboro) friends from our church in Fresno, OH; and Tim & Michelle whom we served with at MMS Aviation. It was wonderful to spend several hours catching up with Sam and Mary and Cathy and to host Tim & Michelle for a couple days to include our first Thanksgiving in North Carolina.
Karen, Keith, Mary & Sam
Tim & Keith
Michelle & Karen
Thanksgiving Day
Karen whipped up an amazing Thanksgiving Dinner for the six of us (Karen, me, Tim, Michelle, Tucker, Tanner): turkey, candied yams, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans, southern-style biscuits, and pumpkin and pecan pies. Yum, Yum. That's not to mention the candied pecans and pretzel/Hershey's Kiss/M&M/mashes laid out for snacks.
Karen removes the turkey.
Biscuits!
Christmas Tree
After Tim & Michelle departed this morning, we ran up to a farmer's market to pick our Christmas tree off a lot. It's one of the few trees we haven't cut down ourselves in 11 years. It seemed a bit odd to not have to drive into the Coshocton hills to claim our tree with a saw, but when it was all said and done, we ended up with a tree at home that we still needed to saw on.
Tanner and I get ready to string the tree lights.
Karen adds the single strands of tinsel to finished the tree!
Praising Him For All ThingsIt's been a wonderful week of Thanksgiving. We praise the Lord for his physical, spiritual, emotional, and relational blessings. We praise Him for each one of you who keep us in ministry through your friendship, encouragement, prayers, visits, and gifts!
8 comments:
not sure if the last went through but I need help getting one car in the garage. too many projects. Greetings
Looks like one of the dogs is already waiting for presents!
God bless you all.
John and Janet Yates
Thanks for your comment, Steve. Part of the trick is to have small cars!
Janet, our dogs LOVE Christmas and as often as we remind them of the true meaning of Christmas, I'm afraid it remains all about the presents for them...Tucker is featured in the photo.
We have 3 garages and all our cars are outside. But somehow the John Deere fits....
Hello Jane,
Yep...it's all about priorities! I understand the John Deere thing...
I enjoyed your blog and "meeting" some of your new friends through the photos. Glad you have two cars and a garage---and a warm place to live.
Peggy
Peggy, We are totally blessed. Thanks for being part of our blessing!
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