Thanksgiving

We were going to get together with Jeremiah Green's family this year for Thanksgiving, but unfortunately several members of their family got sick, so we ended up doing Thanksgiving on our own. This was actually the very first time we celebrated Thanksgiving by ourselves. Aria and Zade chipped in and helped to make some of the food, and seemed to have a good time. They are both especially fond of Acini De Pepe, which is nice to see, because I love that stuff. :)

On Saturday we went to a U-Cut farm and picked out a Christmas tree.  As the mighty matriarch of the family, Tara kicked off the sawing.

And after she did all the hard work and got tired, I got to finish off the job. :)

As the pictures also reveal, we had the first snow of the winter.  The kids had fun sledding down the hill in our front yard and building snowmen in the backyard.

We also tried taking some family pics.  None of them turned out great, but a few were alright.  Such is life with children.

At church today Tara taught a lesson during Sharing Time in Primary about forgiveness.  During the family pictures Zade got hurt and got mad at Tara for not showing him as much sympathy as he wanted.  Later Tara asked Zade if he would forgive her. With a sparkle in his eye he responded, "Maybe.  I'll have to talk about it tomorrow during my meeting with Ryzen."  :)