The LaVans

Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving Week

Uncle Luke with the three munchkins!

Aunt nana, Jessica, Jeffery, and mommy jen in the background

This is the kids at the LaVan (on the Andrie side) family gathering

One of the huge tables at the family gathering

Mom and dad LaVan

Wow! What a week... We left to go up north on Tuesday morning and got into luke's parents house around 5 I think. We spent tuesday, wednesday and most of thursday with his family. On Thanksgiving day we went to his aunt Lois' house and had a huge meal with almost 30 people! By huge meal I mean...they fixed 42 pounds of turkey ok?! Does that give you a clue? Later that night we went to the LaVan side of the family and then left for my parents house. Friday we went to the mall with my sister and her three kids (3 yr old, 6 yr old, and a almost 3 month old). What were we thinking? It was an adventure for sure! :0) The kids were really good and we had fun. Then saturday we headed back home... My house is still a wreck from all the unpacking and so on.. but I hope to get that all straightened out today before I go completely crazy!

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Thanksgiving Thanks

Since its Thanksgiving this coming week I thought I'd list a few things I'm thankful for... First of all, my relationship with my Savior...Without Him there would be no real purpose in life. He has blessed us so much and I can never express how thankful I am for that...Also, my wonderful husband who understands me and puts up with all my craziness; my awesome family who is so supportive (both in prayer and otherwise) and loving(that includes both of our families); our precious church people who have been a great blessing to us over the past months; Great friends who have been there when we've needed to chat and pour out our frustrations...and the list could go on and on...we have so much to be thankful for don't we? Why do we wait until this one time of year to express it?! I'm just as guilty as the rest...but hopefully I'll be giving thanks a whole lot more frequently this year... The Lord is so good! ...... "Oh give thanks unto the Lord for HE IS GOOD!"

Friday, November 21, 2008

Our Tree

Trying to grin and bear it! LOL

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Ok, so last night I thought it would be a good idea to take pictures of us in front of our Christmas tree just for fun...well... for those of you who know my husband you know that did NOT sound like fun to him! LOL He HATES getting his picture taken... But.. he was a dear and did it anyways.. although I didn't really get a smile out of him... LOL Oh well... such as they are here you go...

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thanksgiving Highlights

My Thanksgiving pumpkin on the front porch

Our Front Door wreath

Our Beautiful Autumn Foliage Before it disappeared!

Our Church with the Leaves in the background

Our Flag with the Autumn Backdrop

Ok, so enough about Christmas I guess for a little while... let's get through Thanksgiving first! LOL I took some pictures around the house the other day and thought I'd share them with you...

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The Christmas Bug Has Bitten!

In my family it has always been my dad and I that have put the Christmas tree up and dragged all the decorations out. If ANY decorating got done it was due to my enthusiasm and dad's willingness to help me. LOL Well, now that I'm married things haven't changed much in that regard! LOL My wonderful husband drug (I don't know if that's proper english but...) all the Christmas decorations down from the attic for me and helped with putting the tree in place and then... It was up to me from there! LOL So we have our tree up and half decorated (I need to pick up a few things to finish it off) and all the other decorations are out. I really wanted to decorate outside too but I don't know if we'll get that done this year or not. I might wait til all the stuff goes on sale and buy up for next year. It's pretty cold today and they said we might get some snow flurries some time this week... maybe it will "begin to look a lot like Christmas" in Virginia after all! :0)