Family Traditions

Mom is happy waiting for the family. Its Thanksgiving!

The table is ready and kids are excited.

Everyone is busy helping get Thanksgiving dinner ready.

Who can guess whose cutting the Thanksgiving turkey?

It was a fun day. Brian & Shelly and kids, Josh & Rebecca and their kids and Kristina and Brayden were all there to help us celabrate this happy holiday. So many blessing to be grateful for.

SPECIAL THOUGHTS

For a while now I have been feeling that I need to listen to the spirit more closely. I have had the feeling that I need to serve others more. Gary says why do you feel that way? That is all you do. You take care of grandkids all the time. You are always taking food into people, or making things for others. You do extraction so others can do their genealogy, And, you are a Missionary for the Lord. But, I want that special feeling you get when you serve without being asked. So I started praying to Heavenly Father to help me. In church on Sunday the whole meeting was on prayer and how it can be a tool to help you in your life. When your life is in tune many wonderful things can happen. That of course only made me feel worse. I am not in tune and not doing all the things I need to be doing so the Lord will bless me. Gary always gets so mad at me when I start feeling that way.

I was fixing dinner later that day when out the window I saw a little old lady trying to climb the hill up our street. We live clear up the top by the mountain and it is a very steep hill. She looked exhausted and disoriented. Gary said I think she's lost, so Brayden and I went out to talk to her. She was lost, and had been walking for a long time. She was wearing church clothes and shoes that had a small heel on them. She was trying to find Dr. Hammons house to give him a small gift. So I made her get in our car and we drove to his house. She kept saying no, I can walk I don't want to put you out. I helped her up the steps to Sam's house and told her I would wait and take her home. As Brayden and I waited in the car he got restless so we got out and took a walk. Several of the houses already had their Christmas decorations out. He had fun looking at Santa and his reindeer, and Frosty the snowman. When we went back to the car thoughts started coming to my mind, things I hadn't thought about in years. Remember when you took care of your Mother when she got so bad. Going over several times each day to the rest home to make sure she was cared for. And then the little lady whose kids brought her to die in a rest home and then left and went back to Utah. Again you went over several times each day to care for her and you were with her when she died. The thoughts came tumbling to my mind, things I had forgotten. Then I turned the radio on, I thought maybe Brayden would listen to the Christmas music. The song that started playing was, A Poor Wayfaring Man. The tears came so fast as I knew that Heavenly Father loved me and knew my heart.