Daily Blessings

Oh my goodness, so much for which I am thankful!! It was a fabulous Thanksgiving weekend. It all happened so fast. It seems like we always wait weeks and weeks and then cook for hours upon hours and then the meal seems to last minutes and then it's gone. :(

I'm going to highlight some of the intriguing moments from this weekend....

These are ridiculously awesome "Sweet Potato Dumplings" that I made. You can find the recipe here: YUMMMM. I actually used real cooked sweet potato though - I'm not too big on the frozen yam patties. And I only cooked them for 20 to 25 minutes and the recipe calls for longer. This is a definite do-over :).

Loved getting to spend time with my family. Especially my brother, Eyan who I never see anymore and his girlfriend Kristi. That's why I love the holidays so much - not because of food (although it is always amazing), or presents. But because I always get to spend quality time with the ones I love. And this year was especially amazing because we got to spend Thanksgiving at Chris' parent's cabin in Tennessee where it's impossible not to step back from reality and really take in God's beautiful creations.

We picked out our Christmas tree today on our way home. Actually Izzy picked it out. Chris and i agreed that it might be fun to let her decide. I was afraid that we would end up with a Charlie Brown tree - and we slightly did because it's not as full and perfect as our past selections, but she did pretty well.

Hey Mommy and Daddy - we found it!!!

We spent the rest of the day doing Black Friday shopping with my mom for her 50th Birthday. Found an amazing deal on the one item that I was really hoping to get Izzy for Christmas - so YAY and Thank you Lord for that!!

After dropping my mom off we started home and then into the garage and heard a loud crunching sound as we entered the garage. Chris stopped immediately and started backing up. I just knew we had ran over our cat and we were going to see him laying there after putting the car in reverse. For a few brief moments we had no idea what we had hit. Oh yeah....

The tree was still on top of our car.

Lets just say, thank you AGAIN Lord for looking out for us, because there was no damage to our garage - AND no damage to the tree.