Our Thanksgiving

I have no pictures to share, because my camera is not working right and our little point and shoot broke. So we are camera less for awhile, which really stinks!

But we did have an enjoyable Thanksgiving. It was just going to be the 5 of us but as the holiday approached, a friend invited us to share Thanksgiving with her family at her parents home up in Charlottesville. We had a great time with them and were so thankful for the invitation.

We drove the up there Wednesday afternoon. Her parent's in an old farm house dating back to the late 1700's. It was really fun to walk through and imagine what life would have been like back then. The house has since been updated and added on and it was nice and cozy. But all the old doors and flooring was in place, it was really neat! The house sits on a large piece of land. Not sure how big the acreage was, but it was huge! They have a little youth size four wheeler and that was the big highlight of the trip for the kids. RJ got to learn to drive it all by himself and he had the time of his life. He can't stop talking about it.

We camped in the backyard with our friends in their LARGE tent. It was equipped with a wood burning stove, and was extremely toasty in the middle of the night.

The Wall family has a turkey tradition they do every year, that we thought was pretty cool. The single daughters (there was only one there this year), shape a turkey out of Rice Krispies and everyone is given a paper feather. Then just before dinner the turkey gets passed around the room and everyone names something they are thankful for and places there feather on turkey. RJ told everyone that he was thankful for the world, Savannah was thankfully that we could spend spend thanksgiving with friends, Zachery was thankful for food, Jared expressed his thankfulness for his family, and I mimicked Savannah's thanksgivings and expressed how thankful I was for the invite to join their family or the holiday.

We had an enjoyable time and I am very Thankful for wonderful friendship I have made while living here in Virgina this past year. It makes being far from family a little bit easier.