Thanksgiving Love!

I'm sorry I haven't blogged more. I'm feeling negative lately and I don't want to pass that on so I have chosen instead not to write.

HOWEVER, I am in the office (aka: my second home) waiting for a group to show up that is now...45 minutes late...so I thought I would. I've been wanting to write about the first annual Patsy Party! The day after Thanksgiving I had a bunch of my aunts and girl cousins over to my house for dinner. My grandma passed away four years ago this month and I felt we were already starting to lose some of the precious memories of her. We have new babies and cousins-in-law that have never met her. I feel so very honored to have known this lady - to be her heir - so I threw a Patsy Party! :)

I hope we can make it an annual event. I just wanted the girls of the family to get together and fellowship and celebrate her legacy. This year we decided to use the large amounts of costume jewelry she had to make cute things that we could wear. We turned clip-on earrings into pierced, glued broaches to picture frames and made headbands and hairclips with beads and charms. Honestly, the stuff turned out really cute and I adore the fact that I can wear something that she loved in a way that I love!

Cute sister Glory working on some Patsy crafts. Love that hat sis!

My precious cousin Trisha showing off her creation. <3

Creative juices flowing. :)

Here we are with our crafts! Acting crazy of course.

It was so much fun and I'm so happy we did it! I want to honor the heritage she left behind. Seeing those silly broaches and clip on earrings made me miss her so much more. I could almost see them pinned to one of her 'church blouses' and smell her 'Avon' perfume. I hope I never forget those things...

In other news, Thanksgiving was lovely and wonderful. I absolutely adore having the whole fam together.

Here's our cheesy annual pie pic. Sisters!

This was the first Thanksgiving for the nephs! Amazing to think that this time last year we were praying that God would bless our family with some little ones and here they are! Love these miracles.

These boys are sweet reminders that God does things in His time and not ours. Just have to keep reminding myself of that....:)