A heart so full.

I love this time of year.

I love the feeling I get when the crisp, autumn air brushes against my cheek.  I love the delicious smells in our house after a day spent in the kitchen.  I love sipping hot tea and cozying up to a good book.  I love weekend adventures with my hubby. I love time spent with my precious family and friends.  I love daily heart-moments with my loving Father. 

I am SO blessed and SO thankful for the incredible gifts I have been given in my life.

My sweet FIL is STILL not home from the hospital.  We are so encouraged that He will be home with us by Thanksgiving, but of course, God may have other plans.  We are praying he makes it back home SOON.  We miss him and want nothing more than to celebrate our day of Thanks and Giving with him.  I’ll keep you posted.  Even in the midst of crazy, up and down times, God is GOOD and He is faithful.  I am so thankful for that. 

This week, Hubby and I are embarking on our first-ever, Thanksgiving feast adventure!  We went to Barnes and Noble after church yesterday and did LOTS of research on turkey techniques, gluten-free recipes (for my BIL) and spent precious hours over coffee planning the big day.  It was so much fun!  Since this is our first Thanksgiving meal that we’re tackling all by ourselves, and because we want to make it EXTRA special for my hubby’s sweet mom and family, we want to be extra prepared.  I think we are!  After we were finished, we headed home to get ready for bible study.  After some thoughtful decision making, Hubs said he wanted a night with “just us”, so we decided to play hookie and had an evening of cooking, movies and “just us” time.  It was heaven!  On Saturday we had our holiday photo shoot with Tucker and my BLUE SHOES!  I actually ended up wearing a different pair of blue heels, a pair that I found that I love even more – so excited for you to see them.  We had a BLAST taking our pictures.  It was a GORGEOUS day and Tucker was SO cute and playful.  Who wouldn’t love a full of hour of puppy and hubby cuddling for the camera?!  I will share some of the pictures as soon as I receive them!  We spent Saturday evening at this WONDERFUL, super cute BYOB Italian restaurant with a couple who live up the street from us that we have been having SO much fun getting to know.  I felt like I was back in Italy with good food, good wine and GREAT company.

My heart is SO full today with sweet reminders of all the things I am thankful for.  I’m spending this week with my hubby’s sweet family and will be back next week with a full recap!  Can’t wait to share how everything turns out and I am especially praying that I will be able so share that my FIL is HOME. 

Have an AMAZING and BLESSED Thanksgiving week!

Blessings/XOXO