Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope you all had a great day with your families and friends! We had a very nice day! We went up to Michigan to hang out with our extended family! It was a nice time of fellowship, and it's always good to reconnect with the family members we don't see as often! We had an amazing meal and it was really relaxing!

Last night we had our 2009 Family Fall Fest, which was actually a surprise party for AJ and Ross! We decorated the front porch really nicely for a sit down dessert with candles and Christmas lights. We had an obstacle course, chili and fritos, played mafia, hillarium, and praise and worship time. We had changed out all our picture frames with pictures of AJ and Ross together! They didn't even notice at first. Then we had ordered a cake for them with a picture of them on it that said "Welcome Home Abrahoss!" haha...and we had Abrahoss trivia. The night was a success and everyone seemed to have a good time! It was a lot of work cleaning up after, but totally worth it! I can't wait to plan our next party! :) Emily and I had planned it together since September! We got together Sunday to set up the house for the party and then she came over early yesterday to finish up and AJ and Ross took the boys to the Bremen Bounce so we didn't have to watch them! It was nice! We made them shirts and everything! It was fun to plan!

I'm very thankful for all that the Lord has done for us this year. He has blessed us so much and I definitely do not deserve it!! So Happy Thanksgiving and have fun decorating for Christmas now!! :) I love this time of year!!!!!!!

Explanation Point Overload!!!!

wow...every sentence except for one in my last post ended with an explanation point. come on, vikki...seriously? everything can't be THAT exciting! :) haha...i'm gonna try to branch out and use some periods once in a while...that might be a nice change of pace. :)

Mmm...I love the Holidays!

Well, I haven't blogged on here for a while. I feel like I never have that much to talk about, but I miss blogging, so I'm going to try to start it up again! I'm so thankful that it's a three day week of school this week! I'm so ready for a little break. School has been going pretty well, but I am really looking forward to the end of the semester! I think most of the reason is that AJ is home now and I feel like I can't get enough time with him!

It has been so amazing having my husband home! It was a little bit of an adjustment at first just because we hadn't lived in the same house for a year! But once we remembered each other's little annoying habits, it has been great! It's so fun to talk to him every night before we go to sleep and to not even hear the little sounds in our house that I always heard when he was gone! I feel safe and loved and happy! :)

Elijah has been the happiest kid you've ever seen lately! He loves having his daddy home! They play and do crazy things all the time! He loves having both of us around and is always randomly saying "grandma hug!" which actually means group hug, he just forgets the word is group and not grandma!

This week is going to be very busy! I have two tests tomorrow, then I'm done with school for 4 days! Then Emily and I are going to finish getting ready for our Family Fall Fest at our house which is tomorrow night! Then Thursday we are going up to Michigan with my family, and finally on Friday we are going to go get our annual Christmas ornaments, decorate our house for Christmas, and then have another Thanksgiving dinner at my mom and dad's house!

I have to just say that I'm so thankful that God kept AJ safe all year and brought him home safely! I'm also so thankful that somehow He made the year go really fast for me! I had no idea that it would go that fast, and I could never imagine it being over and AJ being home for good, but now he is and we are about to enjoy the holidays together! God is SO GOOD!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! :)