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!