Thanksgiving 2011

Wow! Life has been really crazy lately! Since I am really wanting to blog about Christmas celebrations that are already occuring, I figured I better squeeze in Thanksgiving first! Thanksgiving this year was a little different than normal. The Monday of the week of Thanksgiving, my maternal grandmother passed away. So, Tuesday and Wednesday were spent in San Angelo for her funeral. She passed very peacefully, but it came about suddenly. In the spring my grandmother moved into an assisted living facility. Then, she sold her house and her car. It's like God was telling her to get everything in order. Thursday, Nov. 17 she was diagnosed with incurable cancer and given 2-4 months to live. On Monday, Nov. 21 she passed away. We all think she was ready to go to her eternal home to be with God and my granddaddy. I love my grandmother very much and will miss her. She was a wonderful Christian woman who always showed that she loved her family. I am so glad she got to meet Charlotte and that Charlotte got to meet her before she passed away. After leaving San Angelo, we went to Austin to spend the rest of the week with my family. We did still have Thanksgiving dinner and got to get together with my Aunt and one of my cousins and her family. There was lots of playing and fun times!

On Friday, we had beautiful weather to hang Christmas lights.

We opened our annual Christmas ornament from Mimi and Papaw.

She wasn't really sure why should couldn't play with the ball.

We also got to celebrate my Mom's birthday.

She got a Kindle Fire. I was jealous!