Shpanksgiving!

mmmmm we love Thanksgiving!! but we missed being at home of course.

It was our first big holiday (besides Halloween!) to celebrate together as a married couple!!!  We were a little sad because we weren't with our families but it made us more thankful that we had each other.... awwwwwwwwwwww!

Even though we weren't in the states, we still did Thanksgiving Americano style.  Emma and I spent this Turkey Day with about 20 other Americans (the majority southerners!), 2 Germans, and 2 Mexicans that we barely knew.   We were invited by our new friend, David Acton, who is the pastor of a church here in Sevilla.  He and his family have been hosting a Thanksgiving feast every year since they've lived abroad.  And it was incredible!!  We had all the typical grub you would find back home:  turkey, dressing, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni, creamed corn....even banana pudding and pretzel salad....everything!

Emma and I felt like we were back home!  which we will be headed there this THURSDAY!

In short here is a list of things we are thankful for:

• God's never-ending grace, mercy, and love as well as his promise and provision for our lives here in Spain!
• our families!
• ALL of our friends at home!!!!! and in Spain (namely Sarah and Jordan Bentley)!
• DOGS     and kitties.....
• American food
• Marriage and each other.... of course!!!
• Church community
• Umbrellas
• rice
• Candy Corn
• toilets
• 10 minutes of hot water a day
• hot tea
• Super Mario
• Alabama
• the ability to speak 2 languages
• our jobs..... more or less
• our one-room box/piso
• youtube and awkward family photos
• Hope
• public transportation
• TVDuck for watching all our American shows online for free
• holidays
• being able to leave work 3 weeks before the actual Christmas break starts
• being able to wear the same underwear 2 weeks in a row (Emma...)
• kiki (Emma again....)
• Photoshop
• Traveling and being able to go home!
• Photography
• kisses from Emmie (Woon)
• Baking goodies
• etc. etc. etc.
• etc.
• mustaches
• michael jackson.........etc.......

There are many more things that we are thankful for and we praise God for allowing us to have them in our lives!!

These are the last 2 pictures we took before our camera died at the Thanksgiving party!!!

Our name tags at the dinner table!!

 

We are also thankful for CARE PACKAGES!!!

We got another package this week from Emmie's mommy!! We loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We made more Thanksgiving dinner after our other Thanksgiving dinner!!!!

We also got pancake mix, tea, candy, seasoning... cake!.. and a gazillion other things!