Live in Thanksgiving Daily....

Thanksgiving its a great holiday. A day to be grateful for all of your blessings and then stuff your face with food! This year will be a little different for me, as it will be my first Thanksgiving not in Utah and not surrounded by my family. Because, of lovely roads and weather conditions we decide it would be better to stay in Wyoming over the Thanksgiving weekend. However, I am grateful that we have friends to spend it with and that this has only happened once to us in three years. So even though I will greatly miss the Lloyd family feast, and I do mean FEAST! We are going to try and make the best out of it!

I have a lot to reflect upon and be grateful for. My life may not be perfect but I do have so many blessings in my life and things that make me absolutely happy. So, in the tradition of a Thanksgiving Day post here are just a few things I am grateful for this season...

1. Families of course....



Whether it be my little family or our big families I am thankful to have all of these people in my life.


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2. For my kids...



How can you not be grateful for that face. Porter is such a great kid and makes me laugh everyday! In fact as we speak we are watching the Macy's Day parade together and he is tell me to fly to parade mom and waving at the sesame street float. I am also thankful that our little baby girl Eva Vilate is developing great and will be joining our family in March.

3. The gospel...



I am thankful for this gospel, for its teachings, and for the kind of person it teaches us to be. I am thankful for the opportunity I have had over the past couple of years to be around people who question me about it, and who have made me defend it. I am so glad I have something to stand for and believe in.

I am thankful for great food, great friends, great movies, anything that makes me have a good belly laugh. I am grateful for good weather and warm clothes that keep us cozy in -7 degree weather. I am grateful for good people who have given us their extras and been so generous to us, for cars that run, and a job that pays at least some of the bills. I am thankful for the country I live in and freedom. I am thankful for chocolate ex-lax that keeps Porter regular and not so grumpy and tums that reduces my acid reflux. And, last but not least I am thankful for a great husband, who works hard and keeps me in check!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Sunday Thought- Children

“Children need sunlight. They need happiness. They need love and nurture. They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Sunday Thought....Yep Chelsee there back!

" ...righteousness is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is, coupled with a deep commitment to be better. The truth leaves no room for feelings of superiority. Such feelings are nothing but lying vanities."- James L. Ferrell The Peacegiver

Yep......

So, it's November and I am blogging about October! Yep, we did a lot of fun things last month but I just didn't have any ambition to blog. So here are so fun things we did in October only the best month ever!

At the first of the month we went to a pumpkin walk at the Territorial Prison. It was really fun, Porter got to paint pumpkins, trick-or-treat, tour the prison, and go on a wagon ride.








Pumpkin Bowling







Next, on the list Stacy, Dave and McKay come to Laramie over Conference Weekend. We love having any family come visit us, but Porter ex specially loved having McKay here.







Porter had surgery in the middle of October. It was a little rough the first couple of days but he recovered really quickly!


sleeping of the meds



We also got some exciting news in October, most of you already know but we are having a girl!!!! We are all super excited about bringing some pink into our home!!!



Last but certainly not least we celebrated my favorite holiday Halloween. Porter's costume turned out so much better then I even imagined. We decided to go cheap this year and make a custom out of things we already had. Last year my brother and his finance gave Porter a Harley Davidson vest. Since, he loved motorcycles we decided he could go as a biker guy. We gave him a mustache, tattoos, a bandanna, and a Mohawk. He looked so tough and had the attitude to go with it. He was a big hit!!!


On Saturday we went to the downtown trick-or-treat and then hurried to the Cowboys vs. San Diego State. We didn't have time to changed Porter so he went to the game in his Halloween outfit. The camera loved him we made the Jumbo Screen a couple of times and made it on TV.