Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Today I have a lot of things to be thankful for.  But I think the thing that I am MOST thankful for, is my family.  I didn't get to go home this year for Thanksgiving when the rest of my family did.  So I knew they were ALL home having fun together and I was missing out, and it was really hard and I tried real hard to never think about it.  I hate missing out when all of my siblings get together. I love my family so much. My siblings are my best friends! I am so thankful for siblings that care about me and that love me.  I am thankful to have an older brother named Devin that has one of the cutest little girls in the world and is one of my favorite people to ask advice from. I am also thankful for my brother Trent.  Trent is one of the nicest people I know, he is always so caring and is so easy to talk to.  I love having deep conversations where Trent is involved, they're the best.  Karissa is my oldest sister, and I feel SO lucky to live near her.  She has taught me so much about how to be a good mom some day and is so creative and so fun to do craft days with.  Tyleen is the most supportive person I know.  If any of us have something big going on in our life, you now SHE'LL BE THERE! and I love that about her.  I also love hanging out with her, being with Tyleen is so easy and fun.  Jenica is my little sister, and I just recently wrote a post about her, but a little something about her too, is that I look  up to her so much.  She leaves on her mission soon, so she's been on my mind a lot lately and I don't know what I'll do without her.  She's so nice and good and I am going to miss her sooo much! It'll be fun to have someone to write letters to again. I've missed doing that since Connor's been home for 2 1/2years now. Kendra is the baby of the family and has a lot of older siblings that like to give her advice and guidance, but she handles it well.  She's so adventurous and fun.  I love watching her play sports, and is one of my favorite people to have a dance party with.  She's the only one that would try to learn silly dances from music videos we saw, or let me do her hair growing up when no one else did. My parents are the best people in the world.  My siblings are my best friends, but my parents are my heroes.  I don't know what I would do without their love and support.  I always want to know their opinion about everything because I feel like they've done everything right. My mom is the most selfless person.  She spends all of her time worrying about her kids and Grandma and does whatever she can to help the people she loves.  I want to be more like her in that way.  She also has gotten really funny over the years! It's fun to be around her and listen to her silly witty comments.   And not to mention, she is SO stinkin cute! I hope that I can be as cute as my mom some day.  My dad is my hero beyond all heroes.  My dad has a BIG heart and is such a hard worker.  And my dad's hugs are my most favorite hugs in the world and he's so nice to let me hug him as much as I want.  I love that I know that if I ever needed help building something, or fixing anything, that my dad can!  Another thing I love to do with my dad is play games.  If you've ever met my dad, you probably know that he is incredibly competitive.  And for a while I thought that it drove me crazy and thought "can't we all just play for fun?!" But just tonight I played a game where people looked at me crazy for wanting to WIN and then I was grateful for a dad that made it fun to win because he was trying his hardest to win too! 

I am so thankful for my family!! They are most fun family in the world and I can't wait to see them this weekend for Jenica's farewell talk. Also, I can't forget to mention my in laws!!! Dan, Annette, Cortney, Toby, Ryan, Meredith and Morgan are the best!!!!  I love all of them so much and am so lucky to like all of them and get along with all of them.  I have A LOT to be thankful for.