Thanksgiving & football

Well, I some how managed to make it through Thanksgiving without taking a single picture! Of course, we got our fill of turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie and all of the other fixins! And enjoyed spending some quality time with all of our family. In this crazy day and age that we live in, it's sometimes easy to forget all of the blessings in our life. This Thanksgiving, I realized just how lucky we are and that we have so much to be thankful for:

I'm thankful for my wonderful husband. He is so supportive and unselfish and is a great provider for our family. It is great being married to my best friend.

I'm thankful for our beautiful daughter. God blessed our lives in ways that we never imagined were possible when he gave us Anneliese. Every day we learn what true love really is when she looks in our eyes and says "Love you too."

I'm thankful for my brother. As most of you know, he moved in with us last May and we are all lucky to have him around so much. He's been a big help when Brandon travels for work. It has been great having him here and I know Anneliese loves being able to spend so much time with her Uncle Jason. It's great to have a brother who's also your friend!

I'm thankful for our amazing families! We have wonderful parents and Anneliese has so much love for her "Nanny, PaPa, Nana and DaDaDa." Thank you to them for always being supportive and helpful.

I'm thankful for all of our great friends. I'm lucky in that most of my closest friends are my cousins and I know that this is rare. It's so great to have so many people around us in our lives to share in our laughter and tears.

I'm thankful for our good health. I've been reminded recently how fragile our lives are and we are so fortunate to all have our health.

Of course, there is so much more we have to be thankful for, but I won't bore you all with a long list and no pictures.

With Thanksgiving comes another season of football play-offs for the SHS Indians. I am so proud of my dad and there aren't words to describe how great it makes me feel to know that so many people look up to him and respect him. He really is the greatest football coach there is. Once again, he started out a season wondering how good his team would be this year. And once again, he motivated and brought out the best in his football players and the Indians had a great season, ending with a State Championship! Way to go Dad/Pa Pa/Coach Henke and Congratulations to the SHS Indians! Unfortunately Brandon wasn't able to go with us to the game because he was en route to Korea, but he was there in spirit.




Finally, I want to give a shout out to the wonderful elves who helped me decorate our house for Christmas. I am a Christmas nut and have a goal of being the Griswalds of our neighborhood. We're not there yet, but give my elves and I a couple more years and maybe we will be. And I have passed down my love of the holidays to Anneliese, who just cannot get enough of the "Mimi lights and Mimi trees!"




Here's to hoping you all have a fabulous holiday season! Can't wait to see a lot of you during Christmas break.