Thanksgiving break...

We had a wonderful weekend with Kieth's sister Karla and her husband Fred, and two of their children, Michelle and Kurt, and Kurt's fiance Justina. This is the first Thanksgiving holiday we've spend with Kieth's family so it was a special time. We also had a friend of ours, Veronica Spotts, over to eat our Thanksgiving day meal with us. We had prime rib, twice baked potatoes, green bean casserole, spinach salad, and homemade rolls. For dessert, homemade cheesecake with blackberry sauce. Karla and I made the meal, and we all had a great time enjoying it!

We have about 8-10 inches of snow on the ground so we spend some of our time outside making snowmen and putting up the Christmas lights yesterday. It's definitely starting to feel like the holiday season! The last of our company, Michelle, is leaving today to head back to Meridian. We are sad to see everyone go but have had an INCREDIBLE time this Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving...

Even with all that's happened this year, the Finkbeiner family has a TON to be thankful for! We found out last week that I'm pregnant (barely!) :) I'm 5 weeks along and will be due the end of July. What a blessing! We are very excited, but very nervous at the same time. Through it all, we know God will be there guiding and comforting us the whole way. I hope everyone has as much to be thankful for this holiday season as we do. God bless!

Halloween

Holly was a butterfly this year for Halloween. She wasn't exactly thrilled about the whole "costume" idea until we had a few trick-or-treaters show up and she saw them in THEIR costumes. She then realized that it would be an alright thing to be a butterfly. We decided just to sit outside on our porch steps since we get some many trick-or-treaters that the door would be open the whole time anyway. We made a fire in the fireplace so the furnace wouldn't kick on and had hot apple cider on the stove. We saw many of our friends, handed out and ate lots of candy, and had a great time! One of my favorite things of the night were the "witches digits" that I made, which were kind of an almond shortbread cookie. All in all, it was a great night!