Thanksgiving Week

Oh my...What a week! We started the Thanksgiving celebration last Thursday at his school with a Thanksgiving Feast. The menu included the wonderful K3 Thanksgiving food: chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, mashed pototoes, green beans, corn, fruit, and juice boxes. His class wore their turkey handprint shirts, turkey hats, and ate on their turkey handprint placemats. The feathers on his hat had things written on them that Dalton said he was thankful for....his jeep, the color red, and mom and dad were some of the things he said.

My little turkey

Dalton was so excited to get to be out of school for a whole week and he woke up Monday morning to this....PINK EYE!

Thankfully, this was our first round of antibiotics ever! He was not a huge fan of the eye drops that we had to give 3 times/day for the entire week, either! Poor guy!

He was able, however, to go to the grocery store with mom and dad on Wednesday to get our food for our Thanksgiving lunch.

We went up to Grandma Stacy's on Wednesday so that Dad could go hunting with Uncle Jeff. Before Dad left, he took Dalton on a 4-wheeler ride.


He loves going to Grandma Stacy's house because he gets to see the horses, Bo and Lucky. They were so good to come up to the fence so that he could pet them.

Dalton, Austin and Autumn waiting for the horses.

Stairsteps......Abby (11), Autumn (9), Dalton (3), and Austin (2).

Getting some love from older cousin, Abby. This was taken right before our last bit of excitement during the Thanksgiving week. Dalton ran through the rose bushes and hit the railing by the mailbox. He broke the fall with his face! He got up with a huge knot on his forhead, a scratch right under his eye, and a gash on his cheek. We were so thankful it missed his eye!

Playing with magnets with Dad

My attempt at creative photography :)

The finished product...Ta Da!

If you look close, you can see the battle wounds on Dalton.

We left Grandma Stacy's that afternoon and went to my sister's house for Thanksgiving supper with my family. Despite some of the "setbacks" throughout the week, I know we have so much to be thankful for. Last Sunday at church we sang this song called "Because of Your Love" by Paul Baloche. The words are so fitting for not only Thanksgiving, but everyday of the year.

"As we come into your presence, we remember every blessing that You've poured out so freely from above. Lifting gratitude and praises, with compassion so amazing. Lord, we've come to give you thanks for all You've done.Because of your love, we're forgiven. Because of Your love, our hearts are clean. We lift you up with songs of freedom. Forever we're changed....Because of Your love."