Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving!  (Uncle Dennis dress.)

Getting our Christmas tree.

Debut of the 2009 Christmas dress!

Prater granddaughters.

Prater grandchildren.  (Minus Nick who was at his football playoffs.)

Greetings!  We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  This year we went to spend the holiday with Patrick's family in Mason, MI.  That mother-in-law of mine is quite the cook...yum!  I did a little bit of Christmas shopping but not on Black Friday, too nutty for me!  I enjoyed a nice lunch with my friend Sarah and her daughter Sophie at Los Tres Amigos.  Patrick, MVP and I returned to Tannenbaum Farms to get our Christmas tree and wreaths and found the reindeer to be crabby this year and he had VERY long antlers!  Kim & family came down on Friday and MVP had such a great time with all of her cousins and we went to the Mason holiday parade and tree lighting...quaint & cute!  Joanne then had us play a silly and fun little game that she called How Well Do You Know Kim with trivia that she pulled from Kim's 1987 senior year memory book.  It turns out our Kimmy was obsessed with Top Gun and dreamed of owning a Camaro Z28 with t-tops in electric blue!  BAD.ASS.  Hee!  (I can't heckle too much...my dreams were similar, but in red!)  We had to head back to Chicago early Saturday morning because it was my weekend to work.  Our nephew Nick had his football playoff on Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit and they won!  Traverse City St. Francis Gladiators are the Class D State Champs!!!  We are so happy for Nick and we wish we could have attended the game.  2009 has been a rough year for so many and although life can be sad and stressful at times, we have many blessings to be thankful for:  Margaux, each other, Jasper, our families, our friends, our health, our jobs and the list goes on and on.  We must not let the unpleasant things in life rob us of our joy.  God bless you all!