Thanksgiving this year was so WONDERFUL!

We had a very full weekend, starting around noon on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving when I decided to decorate the house for Christmas!

Chad was actually the one who asked if I would like him to put up the trees, and YES, I loved that idea!

We got both the upstairs and downstairs trees up, lighted, and decorated, as well as getting the porch and a few other areas decorated.

It turned out beautiful!

I love the lights of the Christmas season!

Thursday morning we hopped out of bed early and bustled around the kitchen all together to make a noon time Thanksgiving meal for our guests!

Tate was in his element!!

Pretty soon we were all ready!

We had a yummy meal prepared – roasted chicken, cubed & roasted yams, smashed red potatoes, green beans and bacon, rolls, cranberry relish salad, broccoli salad, and a tossed lettuce, pear and pomegranate salad.

We had hot cider, hot coffee, and cold juice spritzers to sip as well!

Here is our traditional Team Moschel Thanksgiving photo!

Our friends arrived and while the food heated we had a time of singing and sharing!

It was THE BEST.

We ate all that yummy food, visited, played games, visited some more….and then there was PIE.

My face hurt the next day from laughing so much – that is how you know you have had a blast with your friends!

We hopped out of bed early Friday morning to get ourselves ready to travel to a wedding.

We rented a van to travel in so we could all be in one vehicle and have some space.

We loaded up around 8 a.m. Friday morning to head out.

I took my breakfast to eat along the way – and yes, it was pie!

The wedding was BEAUTIFUL.

The music was AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!

It filled our hearts to over flowing to share in SUCH a special day for our friends!

We also got to spend some time with our dear friends who traveled to the wedding as well!

Saturday we were tired, so we slept till we woke and had a slow lazy breakfast.

Breakfast looks like this when my hubby makes it.

He makes me smile!

Then the guys decided to take all of the kiddos hunting (the littles have been BEGGING to go with them), so I headed to town to get grocery and run some Christmas errands!

It was a gorgeous day!

I clearly did not think this grocery shopping trip through because when I arrived home there was not one soul to help me unload all those bags!

We had looked forward to Sunday all weekend – it was time to have Thanksgiving with Kay’s!

We made a simple meal of soup, bread, and fruit for after church.

Then we spent the day together playing with the kiddos, chatting, drinking David’s amazing lattes, and playing games.

It was PERFECT.

Pretty soon it was time to get ready to go to a (different) wedding reception that evening.

As we got each one ready, I sat them in the office to watch Nutbrown Hare – you know, in an effort to keep everyone clean and happy and all!

As I stood there I was overwhelmed with gratefulness.

JUST LOOK WHAT GOD DID.

Our children, our grand children….I could never have imagined this season if I had tried!

What a wonderful season it is!!

Our littlest ones growing up as best friends with our grand babies.

How it love it all.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend too!!