November Outings

by Steph // Thursday, January 5, 2023 // Comments off

Besides our Thanksgiving outing where we delivered meals, we had some other planned outings in November too!

I think my favorite one was when we attended the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra on the evening of November 12th.

What a GREAT experience for us all!!

I think Tate loved it the most, but everyone enjoyed it very much.

The music was BEAUTIFUL and the pianist was AMAZINGLY talented!!

Blake and I also occasionally have a coffee date with another couple on Sunday morning before church.

It is WONDERFUL every time and I love our friends so very much!!!

I had to get a photo of this beautiful latte last time we met.

We spent a Sunday afternoon at our local High School swimming pool to hear the testimony of a young man and then watched him be baptized.

Nothing. Like. It!!

What a privilege to listen to and then watch someone publicly proclaim their love for the Lord!!

We also are making a point of taking the kiddos to town for things – whether it be errands, or just for dinner out. We have been isolated for so very long and are enjoying these outings so very much!

One Friday evening we made a family date night and headed to town to shop and then have dinner at Chipotle.

It was a BLAST!!

And of course there was a coffee stop!

Blake and I still enjoy date night…but I am sad to say because of illness and the holidays our last date night was back on November 11th, what in the world!!

The kiddos gave us some gift cards for Christmas and we plan on using them very soon for a really nice date night together!!

I love having one-on-one time with Blake!

I am sure he loves it when I bring my planner, ha, ha!

We spent Thanksgiving weekend helping the dearest people I know look around our area and look at some houses as well.

It was quite the joy for this Mama that we had the help of the most amazing realtor – our son, Chad!!

This post was in an effort to creatively separate the huge amount of photos I am going through from the last two months!

I think it did the job!

There is still lots of November memories to keep here – so stay tuned!!

November is full of great memories!

Thanksgiving Celebrations

by Steph // Tuesday, January 3, 2023 // Comments off

Thanksgiving was so wonderful this year!

We had so many things to look forward to.

I will start this post with our traditional Thanksgiving Day kitchen crew selfie!!

Our first celebration was with friends on the Sunday before Thanksgiving.

It was very yummy and we had the BEST time spending the day with our dearest friends!

I barely have any photos because I was enjoying myself so much!

Of course I took photos of the food.

The younger kiddos spent a lot of time outside that day sledding because we had a lot of snow.

On Thanksgiving Day we headed out in the late morning to go into La Crosse and deliver meals for shut ins.

This is our second year volunteering for this ministry and we enjoy it SO VERY MUCH.

Blake and I were in the van with the three youngest and Grant and Addie were in a second vehicle delivering as well.

We delivered over fifty meals between our two vehicles!!

So very fun!!

Once we were back home around 2:30 that day, David and Kayla’s came over to celebrate Thanksgiving with us!

We had not seen them much in November because we had traveled and then they had traveled.

It was SO very good to be together!!

We kept two cute boys for the night that night!

Sleep overs are SUPER FUN for everyone – including me!!

If you have followed along with our blog for any amount of time, you know how much we have to be thankful for!!

Not just on one day each year either – but EVERYDAY!

I was just looking back at all of our photos from November to prepare for this post, and do we ever have reason to be grateful!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year too!!

Next up will be a recap of the rest of November….stay tuned!

Happy New Year!!

by Steph // Monday, January 2, 2023 // Comments off

Heelllloooo!!!!

It has been a long while since I have posted on this little ole blog of ours!

We have had quite a full last two months – full of lots of snow, below freezing temperatures, illness, all things to do with the holidays, illness, a wonderful Christmas and New Year weekends, and did I say illness?

The Lord has been good to us – through it ALL!!

Here is the Twin Oaks crew on Christmas Eve right as we were heading to church for our candlelight service!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas as well!!

My blog is having troubles (probably has more to do with the person trying to use it, ha, ha!), but I am hopeful to get it back up and working properly so I can get back to posting about life here soon.

Keep your eyes on the One who already knows what 2023 holds, friends!!

Happy New Year!!!