We Are Family....: Giving Thanks...

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Giving Thanks...

"As we pause to thank Him for the blessings of the past year,
we must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times.
We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things."
[Millie Stamm]

Had a wonderful Thanksgiving - my brother Luke and his family came for a week from Seattle and also had my brother Matt's kids from Las Vegas and St. George. My parents, Kelli and her crew and even had Marty(Brandon's brother) and 2 of his daughters join us for dinner this year. We are in deed grateful for every single one of our family members near and far away - we love the memories we are creating and treasure the Thanksgiving Holidays of days gone by. Lots to be thankful for....

Thanksgiving dinner - Trav did things up good as usual...

The cousins...

My mom, dad and sister Kelli.

Handsome Husband and Grandma Carolyn

Michael(13), Jake(16) & Damon(18)

Travis Jr.(almost 15) & Zach(almost 15)

We had 4 seven year olds - here are 3 of them

Connor(7) Madalyn(8), Kinley(7), Aiden(7) and Easton(7)

kadin and the brothers

Grandma Jacobs famous butterscotch pie....

carrying on the Jacob/musgrove tradition

Madalyn, Kloe(Marty's little girl) and Kinley

Kinley Mae

Little bro Luke

Three genrations.....

Mikey

Tanner boy...

Zach, Trav and Samson

Grandma Carolyn playing scrabble with the grands

the kids played hard - here is Aiden in his birthday
gift from Nana and Papa Dougherty

Love this time of year - thankful for the power and blessings of family. We are thankful for each and everyone of you - Grateful to have my awesome husband home for the holidays.....love watching him with these 4 boys of ours...we had such a fun time!!

3 comments:

Zepp Family said...: WOW, what a spread of people and food you had!!! SO.MUCH.FUN. You, your folks, and siblings all look so good too :) We are grateful that you are part of our family. Love to everyone...especially Trav. Jr. on his big day!; December 8, 2011 at 1:19 PM
DOUGHERTY FAMILY said...: So thankful to have you in our lives...We love you and count you among our greatest blessings!!!; December 17, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Keith, Becky, Kennedy and Kassidy said...: Brought happy tears to my eyes! LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!; December 18, 2011 at 10:07 PM

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OUR FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Parents need to "play offense" - to capitalize on the impressionable years of childhood by instilling in their sons the antecedents of character. Their assignment during two brief decades will be to trasform their boys from immature and flighty youngsters into honest, caring men who will be respectful of women, loyal and faithful in marriage, keepers of commitments, strong and decisive leaders, good workers, and secure. And of course, the ultimate goal for people of faithis to give each child understanding of scripture and a lifelong passion of Jesus Christ. This is, I believe. the most important responsibility for those of us who have been entrusted with the careand Nurturance of children.

Christmas In Elma!!

We left for WA the 13th of December - I barely made it to Seattle to hand the kids over to my Dad and catch a flight to Atlanta where I would join Trav for his company Christmas Party the next day. Trav and I had a fun get away and were able to do a little Christmas shopping. We stayed Thursday, Friday and Saturday and flew back to Seattle Sunday morning where we stayed until January 3rd - We were able to catch a Elma Boys Basketball game. The boys thought it was really cool looking at all the family(uncles & aunts) names on the walls before you entered the Gym doors. Michael and I went and Chatted with Coach Nadau one afternoon. It was so fun spending time with family and friends