Thanksgiving!!!

Hi everyone,

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving! Jody, Shane, Erin, Scott, Jana and John were all able to be here for Thanksgiving Day so that was AWESOME! Den's parents and Loren, Darlene and Colton also joined us for Thanksgiving Day Dinner here. Then on Sunday the folks came, so that was nice too! Jody and Erin stayed an extra week and boy was that ever fun!!! My arms feel so empty without little Erin and it's way to quiet around here after everyone left. We miss them all.

We had our family "Christmas" at Thanksgiving since Jody will be working Christmas Day. We are looking forward to the Vander Woude Christmas at the hotel in just a couple of weeks!!! I think we might actually be coming back to Chandler the weekend of Christmas as well.

This weekend we are off to Milwaukee for Erin's baptism. Praying for good weather. I can't believe how nice the weather was for everyone's travels here and back over Thanksgiving! We had 11 days of beautiful weather. The day we brought Jody and Erin half way back to meet Shane we drove in rain the whole time, but the temperature was in the 40's so it worked out fine. Actually we need the moisture, so it was great. They said if it had been colder and snowed instead of rained we would have had over 10 inches.....so very thankful it was warm!

Take care,
Arla