Happy Thanksgiving!  It's been another whirlwind week with much of my family coming down to stay with us for the week to celebrate Thanksgiving together.  It is always a party!

There was much eating....a lot of eating....

It was determined that our old family recipe for stuffed mushrooms is almost everyone's favorite dish on Thanksgiving.  

Prep for the big dinner- yes my brother peels potatoes with an apple peeler.

Plenty of relaxing and chatting too- our record number of people in the 6 person hot tub was 11!

Our traditional T-day post-lunch hike- Photobombed courtesy of my brother Ammon

Gingerbread houses

A mass birthday party for Savannah, Amari, Joseph, and Uncle Ben

And some fun at the shooting range.

I love Thanksgiving.  I love the family, the food, the pie, everything.  I love that we get to take a moment to remember all we have to be grateful for before we start thinking about all the stuff we want for Christmas.  I will close this post with my current favorite quote..

" The...gift of gratitude enables our appreciation for what we have to constrain desires for what we want. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment." 

 ~David Bednar~