Thanksgiving Thankfulness

Yesterday was a day of Thanksgiving, and not just for our nation. We spent the morning in church with our wonderful church family giving thanks to a loving God who is SO GOOD and the afternoon at the Old School Center with a bunch of our physical family. We have a plethora of babies this year and after our abundant meal some of us retired into the library and spent the afternoon watching them play.


Notice how much alike the 2 babies in the picture above look with their chubby cheeks.



The bigger kids like those in their teens, twenties and thirty's played volley ball and basketball in one or the other of the Old School Center's gymnasiums. There was a group of people in the theater room watching movies on the HUGE big screen. The Old School Center is a fantastic place for big families to celebrate a holiday or hold a reunion. It has a huge commercial kitchen with 3 big ovens, 2 of which are confection ovens along with 2 microwaves a huge cooler, big sinks, warming tables and a huge stove. It is so well stocked that almost nothing from home needs to be brought. Below is Molly putting food away after the meal.

There is easily seating for over 200 people in the dining room with over flow tables in the hall. We used the round tables for our meal as our group was under 100 but the facility also offers rectangle tables for more seating.
Later, much later, once we were able to digest that huge meal we headed back to the farm. Jon & Kim Sceggel, from Elgin, IL were staying the night with us while Ben & Taunya, Addyson, Jack and Sarah stayed at mom's. After good conversation and great left overs we headed to bed around 9:30pm.
This morning during breakfast the transport company showed up to pick up Super and take him to his new home. They were suppose to come around 4:00pm but everything worked well for them to come early which was wonderful except there was no time to clean Super up and of course he had rolled. His owner was emailed and apologized to about sending her a muddy horse.