Turkey Day

Thanksgiving Day was crazy at my house. Dad decided earlier this fall we would have "cook-off" of sorts for Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone had to choose a dish, tell us what they needed to make it and then cook it.

It was pretty incredible. There were so many people in the kitchen I waited till the last minute to make my dish. It was my first time making bacon wrapped asparagus with a pineapple sauce. It was sooo good. Oh, and a few of them had goat cheese wrapped in the bacon as well. David and I tag-teamed on the grill. I'm not really a grillin' kind of person, I mean, I guess I could be, but in my family, grilling is a guy thing and the girls stay away from the grill. So David is my grilling partner. He does a great job and my asparagus looked amazing.
I also made cheesecake. One regular and one key lime cheesecake. Spank loves key lime pie and wanted to put the two together since he also loves my cheesecake. The key lime cheesecake was all for him.
And that was all I had to make. It was so nice not having to cook everything but the turkey (Dad always does the turkey).

The past two or three Thanksgivings, we've gone to see a movie in the theater. Last year we watched Enchanted. I don't remember the year before, but I know we watched a movie. This year we watched The Boy in Striped Pajamas. Talk about a chilling movie. The contrast between wide-eyed innocence and hard hatred. Makes all the "big" things seems so tiny. Makes you think about how important family and love is. Wow. It was a GREAT movie. I highly recommend it. And even for small children... it is part of our history and doesn't need to be forgotten. They need to see and hear how nasty those people were treated and how wrong it is to treat others that way just because they are different from us. Important life lessons for anyone.

Closing note: GA Tech beat UGA. What a great ending to the Thanksgiving weekend. God is good.

Thankfulness

Thanksgiving is in three days. I still have some grocery shopping to do and tons of cooking! We are having so much great food! But I thought I would list things I'm thankful for since Thanksgiving is in a few days. I should really do this year round...

Anyways, here goes!

1. I am thankful for my Lord and Savior
2. The forgiveness of sins
3. The Holy Word to lead and guide me
4. My family (I love you guys!)
5. My best guy friend (RG) and my best girl friend (Leigh)
6. A home; that has a roof, heat, running water, etc
7. My wonderful church family.
8. Good music that makes me sing and dance!
9. Socks to keep my feet warm
10. Sunny skies and the man in the moon
11. Coffee!
12. Brothers who kill roaches
13. Movies that make you feel something
14. Friends who love having a good time!
15. Getting letters in the mail (the mailbox that is in your driveway! not your computer); it doesn't happen often, but I enjoy it.
16. The men and women who fight for the freedoms I often take for granted - Thank you.
17. Being born and raised in such an amazing country. America, you really are beautiful
18. Facebook to help keep up with friends far away and close by!
19. The time spent with my mom while she was alive
20. Having family close by especially for the holidays.

What are you thankful for? It's so easy to take things for granted! I heard the other day that someone said that going around ungrateful is like going around naked. Now some of us wouldn't mind going around naked, but the point of the story is: we should always be thankful. No matter what is going on around us, good or bad, we can find at least one thing to say thanks for.

I Love Good Quotes

"Don't let anyone tell you the sky's the limit...when there are footprints on the moon!!"

I don't know who said it, but it seriously makes me happy. It's a wonderful thought that there are no limits to our dreams and desires. Anything can happen.

I've been learning that the only person who truly keeps me from doing the things I want to do is me. I limit myself and then try to blame it on other people. It's wrong and very unkind. But I'm working to change. Dreams, goals, plans are in my near future. I'm extremely excited about all of it and I'm not letting anything or anyone (myself included) hold me back.

My New Blogging Start

On here... again. I've been blogging on MySpace, but seriously, who gets on MySpace anymore? Almost all of my friends are on Facebook and that seems to be the preferred choice of the two. So that's where I am as far as an online social life goes. Oh, and Twitter; which I've come to love. I love doing little status updates throughout the day. Would Facebook be considered networking?
I'll blog more later. I've got to go to the bathroom and I can't think of anything else to write.