Thanksgiving 2014

 This is Beauty's care package that will be sent out for Thanksgiving. It has a sweater in the body, leggings in one leg, socks, and scarf and then some candy! Super cute turkey care package! After moving into our home we are hosting our first Thanksgiving dinner here! I wanted to go away and go to the Beach! but, we stayed home and I was glad we did, in the end! I wanted to make some photo props for Thanksgiving and I made sure everyone who came used them!

 

 WE had Princess Warrior and her family for Thanksgiving. They do  not have a traditional Thanksgiving they do a dinner after with many traditional Mexican foods.

This is our Thanksgiving 2014 family photo! Little did we know in a few days a Neapolitan mastiff would become a new member! Little did I know that joy and peace would soon end.

 

 Jill Smith and Kane came to visit as well! She had some work to do with a good friend and she stayed with her and the CRAZY thing is she lives less than 10 minutes away from me!! say what??
It was so good to see them! I loved having a little piece of Missouri in NC and she is one of my most favorite people and friends. Truly blessed this Thanksgiving.  Kane got so big in the year we have been gone! Dash and Kane almost seemed like twins! They went out and had a bit of fun!

 

 

The Yergensen family also were in town!! I mean can a girl be anymore blessed than this??! They too moved from Missouri and are living in Alabama but Rach had a race, right here in Charlotte and my favorite family came to visit us and I got to spend time with my favorite, Lisa! This was just what I needed a little bit of familiar faces surrounding me! It would be our first holiday with out dear friends or family! It was heart wrenching when the weekend passed and I had to say goodbye as they slowly left NC! My heart broke all over again!

Father's Day June 2015

Today is Sunday and we celebrated the incredible father that he is! The kids made him a lei but we ran short of flowers at the store and there wasn't enough to go all the way around his neck but it worked out perfect  because those spider flowers were so big it would have been cumbersome to his neck and difficult to wear! We were at church and I wanted to take a pic of Mr. Incredible with his lei because he has to leave before the rest of us to attend meetings. Nick who is standing behind them is a pretty neat kid! He is always so nice and kind and polite. I like Big Nick!

Me and my Mr!

When we got home from church I made our family take obligatory pictures! That selfie stick has really paid off! I don't understand this one finger thing but I'm joining in! (apparently, I'm doing it wrong) oh well! LOL

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We were in the hall talking to Dale Beachum  and his wife Vicki. He is in the bishopric about what he was having for Father's day dinner. We said we were having steak and invited that they were welcome to join us as well. He said that he was having a good dinner at home and that his wife was making homemade southern nanner puddin' WHAT? Banana PUDDING!! I have to have some of that! They called around 7 and said they had made extra and would like to bring it over!! So, so nice and sweet of them! It was so rich and so good with each spoonful I thought I may have a heartattck.  Dash, really loved it!! and it was so good and nice to spend time with them and get to know them better! They are such a great couple and so southern! I can't imagine someone being able to not like them! 

Sunday Good-Byes

Such a wonderful yet sad day! Our friends Jill and Kane headed out early before church because they had a long 12+ hour drive and the Yergensen's were able to attend sacrament with us before they made their 7 hour drive home! A year ago we were in MO with these beautiful souls and this year they came to visit us! So full and blessed I am! Safe travels to them all and God Be with you Til We Meet again!

Thanksgiving 2014- Y Friends

So, we were doubly blessed this year with so many amazing friends and family and an abundance of blessings! We are so blessed to be here in Harrisburg and blessed by the circumstances which led us here and blessed that we get to live so close to our son and daughter-in-law! Life is so good and I have such a wonderful life! Even when things were harder I still had such a beautiful life! As, I look back on the past I reminisce and smile and sigh because I see how far we have come and that we have done it twice. I look and see the times of struggle and worry from the day we made a beginning as husband and life and I am so amazed and see How Great Thou Art!! 

I am so grateful, so blessed and so lucky! Without those times of struggle it wouldn't have defined who I am, individually, who Mr. Incredible is or each one of our children. My canvas of life is one of the most amazing pieces of artwork to be seen! I can't wait til that day when I will the Lord will show me it! I will see glorious hues of bright vibrant colors and the sweetest most tender whispers of pastels and intermingled and what defines and brings depth and definition will be those times of struggle and strife, and trials and what path may have seemed hard or unbearable with the guidance of the Master's Hand it has become in those moments who I knew who I really am and who my family is and the stock they are made of! I am so grateful for these beautiful women in my life! They have blessed, helped and supported our sweet family and are so grateful they are part of my beautiful canvas of life!

It sure is nice to look back and see this boy back in the seat again! It feels like everything is right in the world again! This is where he belongs right with the Solomon Family!!!