The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

This is a little late for the Thanksgiving post, so it will be a combined Christmas/Thanksgiving one. I have a lot of pictures to post from various things throughout the month, but we are again without internet so this is a short post until I find time to do all that I am wanting to.

I am so blessed.

The blessings I recognize and that I am thankful for are the following:

• I have a wonderful, loving husband who means the world to me
• I have the best family imaginable (inlaws included!)
• Nick is finished with his graduate school applications (HUGE relief)
• We have nice new discounted 600 thread count sheets on our bed
• I no longer have to try to cut meat with a knife equivalent to a butter knife now that i have new ones
• I only almost hit the car in front of me yesterday while driving on the ice, keeping this year free of accidents thus far (minus the deer incident)
• Nick got a phone where the battery lasts more than 3 hours
• We were able to go to Kansas over Thanksgiving to be with family and friends
• Our neighbors got rid of one of their loud barking dogs
• We have a real Christmas tree, and all the decorations are put up for the Holidays
• We are able to live so close to family and spend time with them
• I have a job. Not just one, but two, when some don't even have one
• Nick is able to go to school and work
• Nick is patient with me
• It didn't snow for real until yesterday (now I am no longer happy to step outside the front door)
• I have sisters who will laugh with me about almost anything
• I have an electric blanket on my side of the bed
• Neither of us have gained all of the weight we have lost back yet
• Christmas time is finally here!
• David and Carolyn for giving us their couch so we don't have to be scared to sit on ours any longer
• I have a husband who will forever make my heart melt everytime he smiles at me
• I am able to live so close to temples
• LeBron James
• A nephew who can always make me laugh (see Andrea's blog about Landon's writing)
• I have a husband who will eat whatever I cook even if we both know it is not very good
• Winco foods for their really cheap groceries
• I have a Savior who loves me and died for me
• I have this time of year to especially remember him and be greatful for everything I have and all that I have been blessed with

I have so many things I have in my life that I am greatful for and that I am sure I don't deserve. I would write them all if I had time. Now, when I have a day where I think all is wrong in my life, I will be able to look at this list and realize how perfect it really is.