Our Thanksgiving Holiday

Like most everyone, we spent the day before Thanksgiving cooking and baking all day.  What fun we had this year including everyone in the "festivities".   I think everyone had their hands in the food somehow that day :)  Our plans were to make some food to take with us to the Riggs' home on Thanksgiving day and to also make plenty of food for our family for the weekend as our favorite thing about Thanksgiving is the LEFTOVERS!  I knew that bringing food somewhere and not having any left, after waiting all year for it, would not go over too well! So we made sure everyone's favorite foods were available through the weekend too.   Oh, and a very special thanks to the Brian and Mary Howell for sharing their

 great recipe for the best turkey ever...and it was!!!

We were all very blessed by the hospitality of the Riggs family.  What a delight to get to know a dear family that loves our Lord and Savior.  God is so gracious to continue to add precious friends to our lives.  Thank you for all the tours of the farm, wonderful food, games and just plain old fashioned fellowship.  

Later that day we came home only to EAT again and have Nikkae drop in for a short visit.  We all gathered around the fireplace in the living room and shared our deep heartfelt gratefulness to our great God and King for His abundant mercies and faithfulness and to sing praises to the King of Kings!  Of course then we had to pull out a new recipe, of egg nog and vanilla ice cream with nutmeg on top, so graciously shared by the Clark's earlier in the week-- YUM!!!  I am thinking this will be a new tradition  in the Huber home!  We just couldn't wait until Christmas Eve to try it.

We were also blessed to have Nathan and Rebecca home with us for a couple of days.  What fun was had by all!   We woke up the next morning anxious to try our hand at the pumpkin donut recipe from the Erber family.  Of course they were a hit!  Thank you Jessica and Sara for passing your traditions on for all of us to enjoy!  The days were full of excitement with football, games, reading books, painting and creating stages from shoe boxes for finger puppets, telling stories and eating, eating, eating!  Thanks Nathan and  Rebecca for planning such fun!

By the way, the picture of Justin at the end look exactly the way we all felt by the end of the weekend!   :)  

May you all draw near to your loved ones and to our Lord and Savior this holiday season telling others of Christ's redeeming power through the blood of Jesus...God bless you all!

"For the Lord is Great and greatly to be praised..."

"I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth!"

 "Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name!"      

 "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior...for He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His name! and his mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation."

These are just a few of the lovely Words of Life that continually flow through my heart, head and mouth in praise to my GREAT KING!  I embrace and thank Him for  ALL that He has for us to go through for His name sake and trust that God's work of purifying will bring us forth as vessels unto His Honor.  

Oh how the Word of God becomes more precious  everyday.  Thank you Heavenly Father for your great love and mercy.  For we deserve nothing from your hand but...

"I will hope continually, and will yet praise THEE more and more.  I will go in the strength of the Lord God:  I will make mention of Thy righteousness, even of Thine only.  O God thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.  Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown Thy strength unto this generation, and Thy power to everyone that is to come!  Thou which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.  Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side.  I WILL ALSO PRAISE THEE WITH THE PSALTERY, EVEN THY TRUTH, O MY GOD;  UNTO THEE WILL I SING WITH THE HARP, O THOU HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.  MY LIPS SHALL GREATLY REJOICE WHEN I SING UNTO THEE; AND MY SOUL WHICH THOU HAST REDEEMED...  (taken from Ps 71)

Truly God is good ALL the time and He is a faithful father to His children.  Bless His holy name!  And therefore we will..."sing praises to God, sing praises, sing praises unto our King, sing praises to God sing praises, sing praises unto our KING--sing PRAISES! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !"

Football Champs!

Well I am excited to be able to report extremely good news to all my friends! The FEAST Patriots have won the 2008 Independent State Championship!!! This feeling is a much better feeling than the one we all were experiencing last year at this time :) Coming into the tournament we had 2 straight tough losses, so the big win was a great way to wrap up the season and a high school career for some of us! I had been having some hamstring problems throughout the week, and so I was very thankful that God allowed me to play in the championship game!!! I am also happy to report that no serious injuries to the Huber family were obtained as a result of any football activities this year :) This year was extra special because our Grandparents as well as Uncle Mark and Aunt Linda were able to visit us and watch us play for the first time! Enjoy the pictures! - Brandon

Kaleb hurt his leg the first game of the Tournament and had to stay in the hospital over night. :( He was a huge loss to the JV team, throughout the rest of the games.