I hope all of our scattered family have a great Thanksgiving! Per our tradition, I wanted to start the day with what I am thankful for. My family is the biggest blessing in my life. I love each one of you more than I can express...those who have children will understand part of it but it gets more and more with each year as I see you all growing into such wonderful adults, spouses and parents.

Also, I am so thankful for the gospel and the peace that it gives me in my life...For Our Savior's atonement that allows us to overcome the inevitable mis-steps we make in our life and get us back on the path to return to our Heavenly Father. In conjunction with that, I am so thankful for the opportunity I have had to be an ordinance worker in the temple. Memorizing the ordinances has added such richness to my life.

I am so very thankful for Dad and our 37+ years of marriage...with both ups and downs but mostly ups. I love him so much. I'm also thankful that he is so valued by Willamette that they are trying hard to figure out how to keep him there. We'll see next week if it is worth it to do so!
But we feel pretty confident that we won't be put in a corner to have to put in our letter of resignation right now.

I hope all of you have a great day...and know that we love you!!!!

Love,

Mom