Thanksgiving 2008

Here are a few tidbits from Jon. He worked all day and well into the night on Thanksgiving day. He is grateful that his busy schedule is helping to make the time go by faster.


"The weather is making it less enjoyable [here], it is cold and blustery (highs are mid 60's, lows are mid 40's, winds up to 25mph), the last 48 hours or so have been rainy, though not the downpour we need, just a smattering, enough moisture to muddy things up a bit (literally--this mud here is like sticky glue)."


He also asked for prayer about that tooth that first bothered him early in 2006. "I have in the last week become aware of a pretty acute level of sensitivity to the ingestion of cold food on my one tooth (that gave me problems during my deployment in 2006). There are no other problems associated with it, but my life could quickly become beyond miserable if this thing goes south quickly." Thanks for keeping him in your prayers.


Joshua and I had a fabulous Thanksgiving. We enjoyed turkey, ham and ALL the fixings with a group of 18 extended family members, including 4 grandmas and 1 grandpa. Oh, yes, there were many fights over precious baby Sean. This picture is compliments of my photographically talented brother-in-law Sonny (also known as the father of Sean). Joshua and I spent the night at Steve and Sandi's and I enjoyed a relaxing day while Joshua played with his cousins. We even found a couple geocaches on our way home Friday afternoon.


We spent Saturday putting up our Advent and Christmas decorations, having a soccer practice in preparation for those regional playoffs next weekend, and then went to see "Bolt" with some friends from school.


Today was a restful day as we finished up our Christmas decorations, talked to Jon on the phone, decorated a store-bought gingerbread house and found 3 of the 6 geocaches we were looking for. We even ran into a man who was geocaching when he found us behind a bush and called out, "Are you guys geocaching." :) Caught! The three of us together couldn't find the next cache on our list, but it was fun to share the search.


I hope that this advent season is full of many new discoveries as you "wait" and anticipate what God's coming into the world means for you.


Sheryl