Thanksgiving Photos 2008

This was our Thanksgiving FHE activity.  My twist on an old classic 

with one handprint for each family member.

Springville Art Museum with the Hofheins

Spriville Art Museum is having the coolest exhibit.  It's original picture 

book art from several of Utah's great children's lit illustrators.  

Check it out if you can-here are the details.

Right next door to the art museum is this fab park that is like a little science experiment.  It's all designed to work using your body weight and kinetic energy.  

Art and science all in one and it was a cheep day of activities.

We went out looking for a Christmas tree

Electric Lake in Emery County is part of a lovely scenic drive that we took on "green"/black Friday.  It reminded us of Scotland very much.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are blessed with many amazing and wonderful people in our lives! Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours!

My Favorite Things

My mom is having a drawing over at her blog: One Designing Woman.  All you have to do is make a post with a list of things that you are grateful for and leave her a comment about it.  She does give away good stuff so check her out.

I have always felt like one gift I have been given is the gift of gratitude.  My husband and kids might disagree but honestly very few days go by that I don't think about how thankful I am for things like:

1.  soap

2.  running water

3.  flushy toilets

4.  DW-Micro-w/d-deep freeze etc.

5.  grocery stores

6.  computers/internet/cellphones

7.  any and all modern conveniences

I'm really not being trite.  I think about these things all the time and thank my lucky stars that I don't have to haul water up from the well, visit the outhouse, send my mom her blog comments on the pony express or grow my own food.  In a nutshell I'm grateful that I get to be lazy. Thank you to the forefathers (and mothers) that made it all possible.