Sat. 11/22/25, Celebrated our family Thanksgiving, Fun Day, So much to be thankful to the Lord for,

My Cactus has buds all over it.  Yay!  I love this time of year when it blooms.

Rehvyn took the baby and sat it on the steps and then he sat next to it

Grammy Vikki showing Rehvyn outside

Vikki, Adam and Jacob on their phones...I surprised them and took this

Me with the gravy spoon and Bill ready to carve the turkey

Eli, Jack and Evan getting dessert

                                                  

Rehvyn,Vikki, Hailey, Evan, and Rody

Jacob napping..after all that food we all felt like napping lol.

Rehvyn, Vikki and Papa.  Rehvyn loved all of the food, even the cranberries

Bill, Bruce, Max, Kimmy and Jared and DJ in the background

Jared and DJ at the food table

Max, Bruce, Melissa, me, Bill, DJ and Stacie

Jacob and Rehvyn

Rehvyn feeding my Tiny Tear Doll.  I had one just like this when I was little.

Rehvyn was hiding in the laundry bin...He had some help from Uncle Jared.  He sure liked surprising me

Evan, Rehvyn and Eli

Evan with Rehvyn

Papa gave Jack the Bible he read and highlighted.  Bill read it in a year and then stuck some money in pages and wrote in the front of the Bible.  Jack was really excited to get it and said he is going to switch to reading that Bible right away.  It was so touching!

Got up at 6:15 a.m. and got the cheesy potatoes baked.  Moved them to the Roaster Oven to keep warm until dinner.  I had bought a sliced ham, but got it all ready and in the crockpot insert last night, so all I would have to do is put it in the crockpot and turn it on.  Then I made the dressing and stuffed some in the turkey and put the rest in a crockpot to cook on low until dinner.  Then I put the turkey in and got some other things done ahead of time.  Vikki, Peyton and Rehvyn got here at around 10:30.  She had made the mashed potatoes and and had them in two big foil containers.  I put them in the roaster oven with the cheesy potato container.  They all stacked in there great.  She also brought jello with strawberries.  Vikki made the punch for me.  Kimmy, Jared and the boys all got here between 10:30 and 11.  Kimmy made two batches of rolls and an apple pie.  Melissa and family got here and brought green bean casserole that Bruce made, no bake cookies,  Hailey brought warm pumpkin bread.  Stacie, DJ and Kody got here too.  Stacie made a huge container of deviled eggs.  Abi had a previous commitment so couldn’t come.  We missed her.  Everyone helped with whatever was needed....setting up tables, putting chairs around, getting chairs from the basement, filling the candy dish, putting tablecloths on the tables, putting silverware and napkins at the 3 tables.  We were able to visit before the food was finished cooking.  Of course Rehvyn was very entertaining to us all.  He is so cute and funny and wants us all to watch him.  He was a very good. boy here.  We all sure do love him.  He gave us the best and biggest hugs and even threw some kisses in there when hugging sometimes.  We sure needed this additional little blessing in our family.  Kenzie had to go to a festival, so she and Travis couldn’t come.  We sure did miss them.  When the turkey was done, Bill got it done, I got the stuffing out of it and then I made the gravy. Kimmy steadily kept up with washing the big dishes that couldn’t go in the dishwasher.  All of the girls, and Jared and Bruce helped set everything on the table.  There was sure lots of food and everything tasted delicious.   We all waited for a while to have dessert.  We had apple pie, banana cream pie, chocolate banana pie, no bake cookies, pumpkin bread, and jello.  Stacie packed up a plate of food for Kody because he wasn’t hungry when he was here.  She also packed up a big plate of food and desserts for Sue for me.  Kimmy, Jared and Melissa went and dropped it off on her porch.  She had kind of a scratchy throat the day before so didn’t want to take any chance of getting anyone sick, so just stayed home.  She called me crying when she got the plate of food because she was so thankful.  We really missed having her here.  Bill, Jared, Adam and Jack played Euchre.  Bruce got back here and he helped Jack a little because Jack hasn’t played much.  They had a fun time.  The rest of us had a fun time hanging out and watching that silly Rehvyn.