Thankfulness.

A few people will come to you and ask you the following questions:

"How was your thanksgiving?"

"Did you eat a lot of thanksgiving food?"

"How many of your nutty relatives showed up?"

"What are you thankful for?"

Well, my answers are: Great, yes, and all of them, but for the last question, I will be giving you a bit of a longer answer.......

Firstly, I'm definitely thankful for all the amazing food the Lord has blessed my family with this year's Thanksgiving. It was more than enough for the 18 family members that showed up. My mum ended up with a cold this Thanksgiving (Just like last year); my two sisters, my sisters boyfriend and I ended up cooking quite a bit of the food (I made the stuffing!).

The Lord is truly amazing. He helped us through a bit of a rocky beginning to Thanksgiving and He had it turn out to be one of my favorites :) ( I also consumed way too much pie.)

Secondly, I'm so very thankful for the family and friends that God has blessed me with!  Including the little booger munchkins that make up my nieces ;)
(This is Raine.)

Raine got to eat a ton of pie this year, and she enjoyed every bite.

More beautiful, caught-off-guard family photos ;)
My lovely sister-in-law, Blair (Right) and her equally as beautiful sister, Brett (Left.)
I claim them both as true sisters, in family and in Christ :)

My snarky eldest sister, Rachael. Beautiful and brilliant, she's my role model and one of my true friends. I love her and I'm so thankful to God for blessing me with such a caring, Christian sister.
My sarcastic, but incredibly sweet sister Bethany (Who I could not get a picture of...), is also one of my role models. She has the courage of a lion, and hair to match ;) I'm so thankful for her, for the both of my sisters, so very much.
Cheesing so cheerily next to Rachael is her boyfriend Trent :) Such a sweetheart, and it's true he really adores her. I praise God for sending him my sister's way, he's a great christian young man with a pure heart. I love all three of them.

Family is one of the most important things to me. I know I never really can express it, but I love all of my family members, and my Christian family members.
(Right to left: My father, Rachael holding baby Scarlet, Blair, Baby Raine and my sister Bethany. My mother was, and still is, too sick to actually enjoy thanksgiving with us. I ask for prayer for her.)

I love my family so much, and if given the chance, I wouldn't ask for any other family. (Right to left: Baby Raine, Bethany (My sister), Trent, Austin, and Josh (My two older brothers).

Though nutty, crazy even, I love them with all my heart. I'm so very glad I could spend my Thanksgiving with them, and I praise God every day for blessing me with such a wonderful, Christian family. I am truly blessed. (Right to Left: Papa, Uncle George, Uncle Jeff, and Gamma)

I'm glad to see the younger generation of my family start to grow up...
(Baby Scarlet, nomming on her flower.)

Playing together, and teaching eachother...(Though it may be mischievous).

These are the booger munchkins I love s very much :) Mischievous little things (Right to left: Scarlet, Raine, and Anna Snow).

They  definitely love to play together, I cannot wait til they are older :)

I hope to be a good role model to my lovely nieces, and to teach them what Thanksgiving is truly about.  About how God gave up His Son for us, so that we may be able to celebrate this day...

....and that brings me to my final answer about what I am thankful for today. I am thankful for what God did for me.  He sent his son to die on the cross for me, my family, my friends, and every person that was born into this world, and every person that will be born into this world. I praise God for his sacrifice for us. I thank Him for giving up his Beloved Son, for us. I thank him for my salvation, and I will praise him every day, be thankful every day, for what He has given me.  I give Him all my thanksgiving and Praise because He has blessed me so wonderfully. 

I hope everyone has had a really wonderful thanksgiving :) I hope you have been blessed on this day just like the Lord has blessed me.

"Let us come into His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise!  For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In His hands are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are His also.  The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.  Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand."

Psalms 95:2-7- ESV translation.