Can it be this good...really?

It's been too long, but not due to lack of plenty going on around here. I have been talking to so many people lately who are sick, hurt, lost, struggling or otherwise. I am at one of those points in my life where things are so good and I am so richly blessed that I feel bad about it. I am really content and have so much that I feel like I am in store for some trials or some tragedy. I am trying to counter these feelings with extreme gratitude and thankfulness, with a sincere recognition of where these blessing are coming from, keeping my pride out of it and definitely not saying out loud or having a single thought that I am "deserving" of any of it...So where do you go from there? Lots of prayers saying thank you, thank you and trying to stay aware that it's not "lucky", they're blessings. That being said.

We had our primary program late October and it went great. The kids made me cry and the spirit was definitely a part of the program.

Justin's Dad and Little sister Kelsey came over for Thanksgiving and we enjoyed having our dear friends Kirk and Jill and their kids for dinner as well,(we appreciate them caving in to all our pleading and begging:) Kelsey helped me make pumpkin pie filling and homemade crusts and I think this was my favorite part. I really enjoyed spending this time with her, laughing, teaching, and just spending time together. I miss that part of our family and really loved having them stay with us for a few days. My brother in law Chaser was going to come but had to stay home sick. BOOooo. we missed Grandma Wendy and Uncle Chase. If you ask me dinner was really good, none of the nightmares I had about raw turkey, burnt stuffing, or runny pie happened. It was the first Thanksgiving I ever did from scratch. I've contributed up to this point but never planned and executed an entire thanksgiving.
However Dad and Kelsey did come the same week that I started building my wall. Justin and I talked a little bit about turning our formal livingroom into a den/craft/guest room. So I called a long time friend and he came over we framed it up and we hung sheetrock. Then company arrives. It wasn't finished but fun none the less. Justin humored me and helped me finish sheetrocking inbetween visiting and cooking.
The next morning my buddy Jill and I started out to do some black friday shopping. 2:30am it looked a little like this. "testing 1.2. testing..." walkie talkies, CHECK. wallets, CHECK. lists, CHECK. plan, CHECK-CHECK.... we hit toy's R us first, then old navy(the line was ATTROCIOUS) so we bailed, stood in line for a few minutes at Kohls at 4am. by this time we are noticing the walkie talkies were the best thing EVER! (no joke- we really had 'em) then to Walmart for my cricut by 5am, success. Next- bestbuy, where I got us a new canon T1i digital camera on SALE. Then to target. While I was in line at target Jill ran to michaels and was back by the time I got to check out. THEN fredmeyer,K-mart, back to target and I think that might have been it. We got to see the sun come up, laugh, find things we didn't come for, smile about the things we got that we did come for. So black friday was a success. So much fun. thanks Jill.
The family is healthy except for the occassional cold- which is short lived due to our new found winter cold killer YOLI... whoo whoooo.
And I will have pictures soon, but I have a lot of software to upload since I did a PC recovery on my computer. so the computer is happier now, but naked of all it's normal software. I will get it back to normal as soon as possible with fun pictures of my new wall.
Heads up- watch for more fun news on Justins blog soon. If he doesn't post it soon I'll post it. Thanks for waiting so long between posts. we'll be back soon. :)