Thankful

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! After we prayed over dinner yesterday, we all took a turn to say what we were thankful for this year and I know a lot of people make a list via social media, so I thought I would post mine here. We are so blessed and have so much to be thankful for! 

29 days of Thankfulness..

1) my salvation in Jesus Christ

2) a godly husband and best friend

3) Makayla Marie Lis

4) Christopher James Lis

5) James Henry Lis

6) a wonderful God living church family

7) an amazing group of Christian women who have taught me the meaning of true friendship

8) financial freedom (thank you Dave Ramsey!)

9) two newer dependable vehicles

10) our house, our home

11) food on the table and in the cabinets

12) our Sunday School class

13) the gift of serving alongside amazing people

14) life lessons

15) having a best friend since 1st grade

16) still having both my parents on Earth

17) the family I married into 

18) 5 silly all-boy nephews!

19) Amarillo, TX~ finally a place to call home!

20) my wieght loss journey and 2nd chance at life

21) friends that live all over the country

22) the blessing of living in America

23) jiu jitsu~ it has done so much for the men in my life

24) ALT~where Makayla found her "thing" in life!

25) James' job~ and all that it provides us

26) my mom and I are going on a mother/daughter cruise in one month!

27) memories 

28) our crazy busy schedule~ we are blessed to be so busy!

29) another year on this Earth with my family 

 

 

Fall Family Pictures

We just had new family pictures taken by our friend Brittany at Brittany Myers Photography. She did an amazing job and I love how they all turned out plus, we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful fall day! Here are some of our favorites...

Thank you to Mary at Bright Sunshine Designs for updating the pictures on my blog!

Puppies, Puppies everywhere!

On Saturday October 5th, our boxer Bayou gave birth to a beautiful liter of puppies. She has 9, 5 girls and 4 boys. Our house has been filled with lots of cuddles, laughs and puppy love. I had to share some cute pictures of all of the puppies and the fun we have been having! Hopefully, they will all find loving forever homes in the next two weeks because they are precious!

Puppies first pictures!

This is pretty much what we do, cuddle puppies!

so sweet

These two pictures are of "Chuck Norris" the biggest boy in the liter.

Every night the kids ask us to wake them up with a puppy, so we do. It is oh so sweet!

Okay, we'll do a roll call, here is all 9!

Halloween 2013

Halloween is always fun at our house, we love everything that goes along with it...the decorations, the food, the movies and the memories. This year James and I went to a pirate themed murder mystery dinner with our Sunday School class, it was so much fun!

The Saturday before Halloween, we designated as "pumpkin carving day."  We made hot apple cider, vegetable soup and pumpkin muffins. We watched Halloween movies and let the carving begin.

Christopher was a big help this year!

This is probably one of the best ones James has ever done!

On Halloween we had jack-o-lantern pizza courtesy of Papa Murphy's pizza for dinner.

We then headed to our church for Trunk-or-Treat!

our family

James Henry as Darth Vader

Makayla, our beautiful vampiress

Christopher, the grim reaper

the hottest guy passing out candy at trunk-or-treat!

It was a fun time and we made some more memories to treasure!

James Henry's nursery rhyme party

At James Henry's preschool they have been studying nursery rhymes and at the end of their unit they have a big party. They sing songs, dress up as nursery rhyme characters and recite a rhyme they have memorized at the party.
James Henry's nursery rhyme was Little Miss Muffet and we went as the spider. He did a great job reciting his rhyme! It was a fun day!

His costume was amazing, and I wish I could take credit but his daddy sewed it together!
Kudos to the Marine Corp for teaching my hubby how to sew.

Hanging out like spiders do...

singing his party songs

cute as can be, reciting his rhyme 

enjoying his party food