Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Home

Over the mountains and through the plains to Grandmother's house we went....

1) I am grateful for airplanes, 7 hours is much better than 17.



2) I am grateful for the Jolley kids. They are the BEST cousins my kids could have!


3) I'm grateful for snow (only in December... wait, that was taken in November... er... I like snow sometimes).

4) I'm grateful for the pure joy that children have

5) I'm grateful that snow is delicious

6) I'm grateful for this girl 
7) and this girl

8) and that I am a mom


9) I'm grateful that my parents have a backyard that was a snowy tundra and a leafy forest all at the same time. (the above picture is from the same day)






10) I'm just grateful that I could watch that happen.






11) And also grateful that my Dad has so much spunk in him that he snow blew the kids afterwords



12) I'm grateful for my sister, she taught me to be a bad "A", or at least pretend to be.

13) I'm grateful for my other sister who is always hiding when the camera is out.

14) I'm grateful for wrestling
15) I'm grateful for Jon Jolley, and how funny he thinks he is
16) I'm grateful for leaves, why is it such a big deal to clean them up, they are fun.

17) I'm grateful that other people have pets for my kids to play with

 17) I'm grateful for baptism and that God has the purest plan for us

18) I'm grateful for this boy's example

19) I'm grateful for music
20) and talents

21) I'm grateful for beauty on the earth

22) Did I mention that I'm grateful for her?

23) Oh yeah, and her too

24) I'm grateful for Tam the Gram, oh so thankful!

 25) I'm grateful for people who love my kids

26) I'm thankful for perverted humor

27) I'm thankful for silliness

28) I'm grateful for Gladys Butler, my beautiful Grandmother. She is always hiding when the camera is around as well!




29) I'm grateful for parties, especially one's that I don't have to lift a finger for!

30) I'm grateful that I usually beat Wes at most things

31) I'm grateful for the Wilton and Charles kids. They are the BEST cousin's in the world.

32) I'm grateful for yet another amazing example in my kids life!

33) I'm grateful for this girl, and the girl she's about to have. 

34) I'm thankful to have the wackiest Momo around, no one has experienced true joy unless they have played the game Reverse Charades with her. 

35) I'm dang grateful for the plan, I get to see these peeps for eternity!

36) I'm grateful for my brothers and sisters in law. Each one adds a new flavor to my life!

37) I'm grateful for Travis's brothers. Wes, you are without a doubt the brother I never had and Kevin, I used to be afraid of you, but I honestly think you are the coolest, neatest guy around! I look up to both of you SO much!

38) I'm grateful to be free. I'm gonna say it, I'm grateful for our country, it really could be worse!

39) I'm so grateful that I have the opportunity to teach my kids new things

40) I'm also grateful for people who assist me teaching my kids new things when the new things become exhausting!


41) I'm glad that God knocks us down sometimes

42) Because he will always send someone to pick us up... and that I am grateful for.

43) I'm grateful for cheesy statements

44) I'm sure thankful for this man, Grandpa John. He is kind of weird and quaky, but how can you not just love him?

45) I'm so grateful for this guy and how much he loves his girls, all three of us.

46) And I'm oh so grateful for my beautiful little family... even know it took 5 minutes, one time out and a screaming baby to take this picture

47) I'm so thankful for this place. Its amazing.

48) I'm so thankful for the friends I used to have in Utah, I'm pretty sure that when they find out I was in Utah and didn't even call, they will dump me.

49) I'm so thankful to be back home with my Missouri family

50) And that Missouri has been the same temperature as Gilbert Arizona for this past week. Boo Yeah!

51) I'm grateful to be done with this long, drawn out post.

Amen




5 comments:

Tracie said...

I'm grateful for Milli, even though she could probably beat me up....

with just her pinky finger.

Amen.

Loved your post.

Tam the Gram said...

I am also grateful for Milli and her blogging "tongue and cheek" humor. Fantastic recap of a trip that I am still recouping from.....

Really really love you peeps!

Unknown said...

Wonderful post - except, of course for the complete and utter fabrication that Milli beats Wes at most things they compete in. OK - she did barely edge me in that little girl basketball game, but Fusion Frenzy, anyone?

Papa John said...

Hey Wes, I remember a race or two on the beach with Milli...do you remember too?
What is "quaky"? I looked it up in the Dictionary and could not find it?
Does it mean lovable, adorable, personable, and articulate? That's what I thought it meant. Okay, we'll settle on that one...
A very nice "Grateful" piece Millster...

Mama Kath said...

Nice pictures Travis and Milli!!!