Thanksgiving Holiday in Delta
This is well overdue but I thought I should mention our 2007 Thanksgiving experience. We went to Delta and celebrated Thanksgiving with my family. Most of my family came. It was nice to see my brothers and sisters and their kids. Oscar and Lily just love their cousins. They adore their respective older cousins, especially those of their gender. Kind of like they decide what they hope our new little baby will be. Oscar wants a Boy and Lily wants a girl.
Oscar went on his first gun shooting experience. Well he didn’t actually shoot a gun but he did enjoy picking up bullet casings that fell to the ground. He loves his Grandpa and Uncles.
We had a wonderful time. We ate well. Thanksgiving Day dinner was wonderful. My mom made excellent food and I’m sure I gained 10 pounds from the pies/ice cream and other delicious foods. We have so much to be thankful for.
Here is my list of thanks for the year 2007. I am…
1. Marlene and her enduring love for me.
2. Oscar and Lily and their wonderful hugs and kisses (when I wake up, when I leave for school/work, when I arrive home, and again when they go to bed). I am one lucky Dad.
3. Opportunity to get a PhD at Brigham Young University. For a chair that pushes me when at times I don’t want to be pushed because I’ve put up barriers or walls to my own abilities. Also for a department that encourages us to produce scholarly work and present it around the country.
4. Learning about my own strengths and weaknesses and ways to address them with more direct and straight-foward candidness.
5. Thankful to have been able to come back to Utah to finish my degree and be near family.
6. Thankful for my parents and my in-laws and all the many things that they do to help us from gifts for us or the kids to financial help to watching our kids when we are in binds.
7. Thankful the the Lord Jesus Christ and his ability to make up for our deficiencies when we repent and do all that we can to return to live with him. He will make up what we cannot.
8. I’m grateful to be member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
9. I’m grateful for music and photos. Our kids take some pretty good pictures, if you ask me.
10. Thankful for family (siblings, cousins, and aunts and uncles, and others) and friends. They help us make meaning out of our lives when both good and bad things happen to us. I’m grateful for all the support we’ve received over that last year whether by babysitting, or talking us through our problems, or by visiting with us.
I’ve more to say about other holidays but I’ll be posting a couple of posts today on different topics so that this wasn’t going to be too long.
