Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving '13...

Uncle Terry's creativeness!

Uncle Terry's "magic" trick.

Thanksgiving 2012...

Considering we just spent 11+ days together with my brother and his family, having just the five of us together this year was a slower change of pace. We spent 6.5 hours up with mom, dad and the puppies and had a very relaxing day! So much to continue to be thankful for this year!

Found this photo from '69, my first Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving 2011...

So many photos taken, not ready to post any of them, especially since one of them is our Christmas Card...which I successfully mailed out on Saturday!!! LOVE Costco!

This has been a tough year for so many of our friends and loved ones. Despite the crash and life being thrown upside down for our family, we are STRONGER and CLOSER than ever before. Mom remains a rock and doesn't complain...We can ALL learn something from her.

You really do own your own happiness.  If you remain focused on the positive, even in the dark times, you will make it through....Life is a gift!

Silly faces are so much easier than all smiles with open eyes...

Ten on Tuesday...

1. Haven't done a list in a bit...thought it was time.
2. So looking forward to having next week off work and lots of time with family!
3. Can't believe TWO radio stations are already playing 24-hours of Christmas tunes.  I LOVE Christmas, but can we please enjoy regular tunes until AFTER Thanksgiving??
4. American Cancer Society Summit is this Friday/Saturday.  Can't wait to see so many Relay friends from all over Oregon & SW Washington...Dream It!  Hope It!  Cure It!  We certainly are working on it!
5. Super busy next few weeks at work...between Thanksgiving Warmdown meals, Craft Fairs, Holiday Buffets and more, I'm worn out just thinking about all of it...but it's all GOOD STUFF!
6. Breaking Dawn Part 1 premieres Thursday/Friday...can't wait to see it!!!
7. Charlotte passed the $1,000 mark in her FUNdraising for ACS yesterday...she's our 2nd Grand Club Member this year...with many, MANY more to come!
8. I have so many creative ideas for FUNdraising popping around in my head, sometimes it wakes me up at night....
9. Typing out my 30-days of Thankfulness on FB this month...when I'm all done, I'll post them on the blog.
10. Mom continues to get stronger and stronger each day...we are so blessed!  Since we will have so many of us around the week of Thanksgiving, she'll be HOME Monday - Sunday..YAHOO!!!

Mashing potatoes...

Thanksgiving 2010...

Remembering her very first Thanksgiving...

November 2006..Gobble, gobble!

Wishing all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving. We hope you are able to spend it with family and friends. We are so blessed to have all of you in our lives!

Love Kathy, Victor and Charlotte.

Thanksgiving 2009...

We had a great time today at Nana & Papa's home....

We ate way too much yummy food, watched too much football, almost all of us took naps (YEAH) and we remembered and gave thanks to all our many blessings! When we went around the table to say what we were thankful for, Charlotte's response was "my family and mountain"...

Thank you mom & dad for a wonderfully relaxing and fun day!

Watch the video at the end...

Wishing all of you blog readers out there the very best and we hope you had a wonderful day with your family and friends...love Charlotte, Kathy & Victor.

Thanksgiving days past...

2008 was a great Thanksgiving. My brother Tim, Sister-in-law Kellie, nephew Jack and niece Kaylie were here to celebrate with us...FUN TIMES!
















2007, dad had already moved over to Hawaii, so Victor, Charlotte, mom and I spent the day together. It's still so funny looking at how much Charlotte's hair has lightened up since she was born...
























Charlotte's first Thanksgiving (2006)...She still is a little turkey!

Unfortunately I don't have any photos of Victor and I on Thanksgiving Day 2005...we had a great time at my parents, but no photos...Love the fact that we are celebrating our 5th Thanksgiving together and our 4th as a little family.

Love you Victor & Charlotte...YOU two are the most important reasons for me to be THANKFUL!!!

Thankful Tuesday...

We have lots and lots to be thankful for, not just at Thanksgiving, but all year long! Here's my early edition of WHY I'm thankful...These are not in any particular order and I stopped at 20, even though the list could go on and on...

• A happy 3.5 year old who loves going to school and makes us laugh all the time...
  
• Jobs that we are both VERY grateful to have.
• A home that we love and colorful walls that help make us smile.
• Grandparents and a wonderful Great-Grandma that we are SO LUCKY to have in our lives.
• Aunts/sister-in-laws and Uncles/brothers...
• Great Aunts & Uncles...
• Cousins, little cousins and second cousins too...
• Friends, so many wonderful friends...near and far...
• Bloggin' buddies & Facebook friends that we've connected with thanks to the internet!
• Relay For Life and the great things that we are doing in order to help raise funds and raise awareness until we find a CURE!
• Our freedom...what a great country we live in!
• Cellphones (remember my little incident)...
• Yummy foods for our tummies...
• Our local library...
• Singing and dancing...
• Silly costumes...
• Disney movies!!!
• Celebrating more birthdays, each year is a gift!
  
• Our beautiful little corner of the planet, the best place on earth!
  
• Our health and the health of our family and friends.. you are all continually in our thoughts and prayers.
  

We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and friends. Thank you for being a part of our lives!

Love Charlotte, Kathy & Victor...

Happy Thanksgiving 2008...

Thank you Kellie, Mom & Victor for doing all the meal preparation! Thank you Tim/Kel/Jack & Kaylie for spending these last 8 days with all of us. Thank you Jack, Kaylie & Charlie for getting along so well today! Thank you all that called, emailed or text paged us today wishing us a wonderful Thanksgiving! We hope you also had a wonderful day with your family and friends.

It's a great life...here's a little look into our fun-filled crazy day today...



















Jack was very thankful for yogurt covered pretzels!!!


















Thank you Aunt Kellie for the matching PJs for the 3 amigos!!!
















Dad enjoyed playing Wii so much at Dave & Katie's last weekend, that he asked Victor & I to stop off Wednesday night to buy one (so he didn't have to go shopping)...Costco sold out right before we got there, so good old reliable Target took care of our shopping need!
















I actually did pretty good on my first go round...3 strikes in a row...I think I finally figured this game out (sorta)...