Thanksgiving Lists

We have so much to be thankful for.  Our blessings abound and I am continually amazed at all that God has blessed us with.  We gathered for dinner at our house with the Barruses this afternoon, with Lee, Cammie, and Aaron, David, Sharon, Josh, Jonathan, and Micah, the four of us, Richard Ledford, and Leland Stout.  We ate delicious food, had lively conversation, and all went away sated and happy.

At family home evening this week, we all wrote down things that we were thankful for, and I wanted to include those lists.  Kent asked us to come up with at least 20 things we were thankful for.  The spirit of the activity really gripped the children because both of them came up with way more than 20.  Here are the lists of all the things written down, though we know, of course, there are many more.

Blythe's list: (I love her spelling)

1. The plan of salvashin
2. a hows
3. a tv
4. cusens
5. woter
6. the fetum of amaraka (freedom of America)
7. matem lother king (Martin Luther King)
8. mom
9. dad
10. Brandt
11. me
12. gopel
13. Jeses
14. tolet
15. tolet paper
16. Lilly
17. emma
18. ellen
19. maggie
20. calen
21. sara
22. lite
23. ether (the guy in the Book of Mormon)
24. party of stone supe (soup)
25. merakels
26. clooks
27. fish plat
28. thaksgiving
29. valetins
30. betheday
31. fon (phone)
32. books
33. tepel (temple)
34. cherch
35. pukins (pumpkins)
36. feet
37. motins (we are free do to whatever we want to)
38. lodrey (laundry)
39. corea (Cora)
40. killa
41. heven

Brandt's list: (I love his spelling too!)

1. Star Wars
2. tron
3. food
4. water
5. toilets
6. trees
7. air
8. Jesus
9. holy gost
10. books
11. school
12. math
13. tv
14. friends
15. mom
16. dad
17. batman
18. superman
19. antman
20. Legos
21. light
22. electricity
23. sun 
24. bed
25. moon
26. home
27. church
28. cars
29. toots
30. clooks
31. blythe
32. temple
33. dogs
34. cats
35. sunday
36. monday
37. tuesday
38. wandas
39. tp
40. thursday
41. friday
42. bday
43. starday
44. schris

Kent's list:

1. Katherine
2. Brandt + Blythe 
3. Family members
4. Food
5. Home
6. Work
7. Books--scriptures
8. Hot water
9. Good neighbors + Friends
10. Cars that work + Scooter
11. Healthy body
12. Dentist to fix teeth
13. Fixing skills
14. Leaders of Church
15. Movies
16. School Teachers
17. Indoor Plumbing
18. Music
19. Time
20. Tools
21. Clocks

Katherine's list:

1. Kent
2. Brandt + Blythe
3. Extended Family--siblings, neices & nephews, parents
4. House
5. Gospel
6. Friends
7. Temple
8. Holy Ghost
9. Food
10. Kent's job
11. School
12. Slippers
13. Healthy Body
14. Opportunities to serve
15. Yard
16. Bike
17. Jesus
18. Ice Cream
19. Sharp Mind
20. Mountains
21. Art
22. Music
23. Books
24. Family activities

And while we're speaking of all this gratitude, Brandt had is picture taken in school in front of the "I AM THANKFUL FOR . . . " sign with his sign that read: "Star Wars and Batman and video games and books and freinds."  All great things to be thankful for.  Blythe's class was not posted, so I don't know what she was thankful for at school.  Turns out she didn't get to do this activity, so that's why there's no picture.