Thankful

November has been a month of thanks at the Russell abode and I have failed to post/take pictrues of most of it...well done Kim.  To kick off the month we made a thankfulness tree.  The kids made leaves with their handprints and wrote what they are thankful for on each one.  It turned out super cute...next year I will try to remember to take pictures =0)  We also talked about all of the people we are thankful for and how we can show our appreciation to them.  I wanted the kids to come up with their own ideas and they had some really sweet ones.  They each picked people to send cards to and baked some cookies for our special neighbor and for the girls at the coffee shop.  My absolute favorite idea was when Lizzie asked to buy books for the doctors office.  It was perfect.  We spent so much time in there this month that she noticed the patient rooms could use some more so went to the used book store and bought a dozen of their favorite, baked them some brownies and wrote them card.  I actually remembered to take a picture of this!

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend and while I hardly captured any of it on film...here is a snip-bit

The kiddos Skyping their Uncle Paul...so sweet!

Making rolls with Grandma

Gingerbread House...the kids dessert of choice

Babies!

Spending time with family we don't see very often 

We have so much to be thankful for.  We are abundantly blessed by God with each other and with friends and family.  My list of thanks would go on and on. 

 I love that we spent the entire month reflecting about being thankful and I am super excited for advent as we begin to prepare for the birth of our savior.  

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!!!!