COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS! NAME THEM ONE BY ONE!

What a beautiful Thanksgiving!
Some of my blessings:

1. My amazing husband!
He decorated my entire house with my 400 nativities

the week before Thanksgiving, so that I could share 

the love with my sister's family and our own children!

He is the perfect eternal companion!

We not only love one another, we like being together too!

How blessed am I?!

2. My best friend,Sister!

GJ and I have so much fun together!
I am soooo grateful we get to do this life together!

Idaho is perfect because my sister is here!

And we did Thanksgiving with BOTH of our families! (23 people in total!)

3. Kiara and Katia

Our daughters are the most beautiful, talented and wonderful daughters!

I'm so lucky to be their mother. 

Not only are they truly good people, but I really love spending time with them!

Scott loves being a girl dad!

I am truly grateful Heavenly Father sent us these two ladies!

4. Cody and Skylar

My boys are such great sports.

They pose for pictures for their over-bearing mother-in-law.

And they have great senses of humor like Scott!

We are truly proud of them! 

We're blessed that they are good husbands to our daughters 

and amazing fathers to our grandchildren!

5. My Dad

I'm soooooo glad that I live close to my father!

He is one of the smartest men I know!

And he's fun, kind, and constantly learning.

Here he is with his FIVE great grandchildren.

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This picture leads into another blessing:
6. My Grandchildren

GJ and I couldn't pass up an opportunity to take a

grandma picture with all five of our grandchildren!

Jelly Donut, Lemon Drop, Berry, Mango and Red Skittle

Here are a few random photos of pre Thanksgiving prep and Thanksgiving:

Making cookies for her sister...

Helping to cut apples for apple crisp...

Making the apple crisp...

Red Skittle: I'm Five!

Berry: I'm Four!

Scott won... He's so proud!

Is there anything cuter than this little red head?!

I definitely don't think so!

Red Skittle posed for the photo.

So Berry decided to do a ninja pose also.

I laughed so hard.

Love these two boys!

And my beautiful granddaughter!

I love this happy girl so much!

Jelly Donut is so precious! 

I'm so glad GJ shares her grandchildren with me!

Lovin' both of those smiles!

Shanae

Mango

Great Grandpa and Mango

Grandpa with MY daughters!

SISTERS!

Kiara - Katia - Sheila - Emily - Mariah - Shanae

Best Cousins with their nieces
Lemon Drop and Shanae - Kiara and Mango

Playing with Grandpa

Toad and Frog - Wind in the Willows

Skylar, Katia, Rachel, Isaac

Tough guys!

Look at those muscles!

Sister Selfies!

Yes... GJ and I were taking selfies in the background.

Ha ha ha!

I'm thankful for all 23 people here!

I really am grateful always... not just on Thanksgiving. But I really felt blessed all week as we hung out with both GJ and my families! What a blessing eternal families are! I'm definitely grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ, who makes all this possible!

HERE'S A PEEK:

What a month: 

I got to work for the elections.

I lost my voice and my cheeks hurt from smiling.

But I enjoyed making everyone feel good about voting.

My Dad went to Scotland with my brothers.

They are all nuts from the same tree!

I'm pretty sure I was adopted. LOL

I loved getting all the photos from my dad's trip.

I'm so glad they had such a great time!

My daughter... seeing her book in print.

She's a published author!

And it's a great book!

Here's the link for ordering:

 A Citizen's Guide to Presidential Elections: Brown, Katia: 9798341457447: Amazon.com: Books

My beautiful Mango!

And my son... running 15 miles in the snow!

I'm so proud of him... but also wondering how he became so crazy!

Snow and running - not my forte.

I wasn't sure I should post this picture... but my husband thinks it's funny.

My sweatshirt (thanks to my daughters) with the game that inspired the pick.

Katia wanted a picture with two of her loves: Mango and Jude

Kiara Lea got to go shooting with Cole and Shanae.

Love them all!

Speaking of Kiara Lea... she's lost 40 lbs.

I'm really proud of her.

And these two handsome guys got haircuts.

I sure love them!

Mango is 3 months old!

This is why I love being a grandma!

Look at that smile!

There ought to be a law against being so adorable!

I feel pretty.... sometimes.

Mango got to go meet great Grandpa DeGooyer...

and Grandma DeGooyer!

Scott LOVES being a grandpa.

Kiara is teaching Skittles how to break bread for DeGooyer stuffing.

It's insane how happy this picture makes me.

Scott went to Ohio with Jose, Chris and Stephen to watch the Ohio State football game.

They had soooo much fun!

And Ohio won!

They also went to a basketball game....

Seats at the VERY top of the stands.

And a bit of church history touring.

Thank goodness for good friends!

I am feeling so blessed this past month. I'm grateful for my family, friends and the gospel of Jesus Christ! I can't wait to celebrate Thanksgiving next week and continue thanking my Heavenly Father for all of my blessings!!!!!!