Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was extra crazy this year, and also just what I needed. 

We were a few months behind schedule for getting into our house. Based on what we had previously been told, I had planned to host Thanksgiving with a group of friends. Our builder was having a hard time getting subs to come finish up, and two days before Thanksgiving, we still didn't have our occupancy permit. I was DONE! I had reached my limit with the house, and I started moving in anyways. I knew some painting still needed to be finished, so I was only putting stuff in closets and cupboards. The permit was finally issued, but the whole house was still masked off, and a huge dusty mess! The painters finished the inside the morning before Thanksgiving, so Mark and I frantically set to work cleaning, and getting the kitchen and crucial rooms set up. We got the main floor put together, now we were just hoping all the kitchen appliances actually worked. 😅

Jenn, Dale, and RJ came over early on Thanksgiving day, and helped us move our beastly bedroom furniture from the barn to the house. Oh, and it was raining while they did it! They were serious lifesavers, because there is no way we could have moved it on our own. 

We cooked a turkey and a ham, and our friends brought everything else. We had a delicious meal with my favorite people! No one even complained about the paint smell. 😅

Mark and I aren't the kind of people who like to ask for help, and we haven't really had to very often in our lives. This year was definitely the exception. We needed a lot of help, and our friends came through in huge ways for us. Actually, I need to rephrase that. We needed a lot of help, but most of the time we didn't even have to ask, they just offered. And it just so happens, that the people that were there for us the most, are all the people we shared Thanksgiving with. These truly are the people I was the absolute most thankful for this year, so to be able to share Thanksgiving with them, was so perfect to me.

We had Joyce and Phil, Steph and Eric, Jen, Dale, and RJ, and our cute neighbors Larry and Karen here for our first meal in the house. It was perfect! When we finished eating, they didn't even sit down and relax, they went downstairs and got my whole gym put together. They built all the exercise equipment, hung the fans, set up the TV, etc. It saved us hours of work!

Moving in!

It was raining, so that made it extra fun!

Everything worked great!

Jenn made the desserts, and they were so yummy!

We had so much delicious food!

Our Thanksgiving gang!

I sure love all these people!

Setting up my gym!

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did!