Thanksgiving, My Favorite Holiday

Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday for many years. It's all about blessings, food and family. I love cooking a grand meal to show my family I love them.
Here are some pics of our Thanksgiving:

Recharging

I'm slowly learning I need to take time for myself in order to recharge. Having a large family fully evolved in sports,  one in scouts and a co-op we are on full steam ahead most of the time.
Yesterday I was able to take time for myself and spend the entire day hunting with my dad. (I just rode along and walked as I don't have my hunting license yet)
Here are some photos.

He also took me to see the turbines. I was amazed how quiet they are and how they do not affect the wild life population contrary to what i've seen on the news.

I did not realize how big they were until we were able to drive up near them.

I was also shown a radar tower NORAD uses.

We did not have a successful day of hunting but we did see 3 partridge, a woodpecker, a red tailed hawk, robins, woodcocks and snowbirds. Maybe this week my dad and my brother will get a deer.

Now I just need to figure out how to take time for myself each day.

More house Pics

Hubby has started the mudding in the room on the ceiling an the entryway. It has some progress!!! Maybe next month we will get some sheet rock to put up.

I am getting very excited to see our entryway coming together and having a nice organized mud room. Next year we will start replacing windows!!

DIY project finished!!

I know I have said this before, but I LOVE pinterest. I love searching what other people have done and put my own personal spin on it. Hubby has been working all day long making rustic lockers for our entryway.
Here are the in process pics and then finished result!!

They way I took the picture you can only see 3 lockers but there is a 4th one attached as well.
The only thing left to get for the 5th bedroom is 1 more bag of insulation, sheet rock and the 2 doors.  It will be nice looking back seeing in progress pictures and seeing a finished product!!

Room update via pics

Here are a couple more photos of the room being framed in and a pic of where I planted my bulbs.

Bulbs are Planted

I planted Shirley tulips, purple tulips, red tulips, daffodils and crocus bulbs today. In the next couple of weeks I will be planting a piece of my great grandmother's Peony that my mom has. The only other thing I want to plant are some iris. I will have flowers planted in memory of my late grandmothers.  When I am able to get some of the peony I will go to my grandmothers house and get some of her forsythia. It will probably take a couple of years to grow enough to see them turn yellow in the spring buy I am very excited to have some plants that belong to my family.
In the spring my grandmother will be giving me some purple and white lilacs. The lilacs are from a bush at the farmhouse my mom grew up in and also we lived in for a couple of years growing up.
I weeded the annual flower bed in front of the house as well as the side one.
Hubby put a bedroom door up for the youngest 2 boys.

Husband has been busy framing in our 5th bedroom and putting the flooring in.

Here is looking from inside the room out. Our ladder to the attic will be within the new bedroom. Hubby is wiring new outlets. 

I will post some more pics as the bedroom is done more.

A little Photo update

We added a new light to the entryway.  Which I didn't think at first would like....but now that hubby has installed it I do love how the light is casting.

Doesn't it give the entryway a cozy glow?
Hubby has been busy after work building our 5th bedroom. Here is hubby teaching one of the boys how to measure and cut.

Floor is being built. Not bad for once being the garage!!

I love seeing progress being made:)

I will post more pics as the room is being worked on