A Thankful Heart

So today during church, there was a musical number that made me reflect on all of my blessings. It was actually a song that I had performed in a choir at BYU. It's a Thanksgiving type song, and the music is really pretty. As I was listening to it, I felt touched by the Spirit and by Heavenly Father's generousity in my life.

I have been blessed with so much. There is nothing that I lack. Heavenly Father has always made sure that I have a roof over my head, food to eat, clothes to wear, and money/job to sustain myself. These things are all I need to survive and yet He blesses me with more than I need. Everything else that I have in my life, is really just little extras. A home, computer, TV, car, cell phone, furniture, extra clothes, life in the United States, money to spend on fun stuff, and other nice things that I have to enjoy. I could go on and on with the things I don't really "need." Heavenly Father has given me so much. Not to mention my wonderful husband and beautiful daughter. I feel so truly grateful for all my blessings. I only hope to be able to stay worthy of the blessings that He still has in store for me.

Isn't she so precious? I'm so thankful for her.

Now a little bit about our Thanksgiving. We stayed home this year and had our own first Thankgiving. We invited another family over and they have two cute little girls. We cooked the turkey, made stuffing and rolls. I have never cooked a turkey in my life, but it actually wasn't that hard. I didn't really enjoy sticking my hand in it to pull out the neck. I looked for the gizzard parts, but they weren't there. I thought that was really weird. However, after the turkey was done, Dan was cutting it, and found them all in a nice little package at the bottom of the turkey. I guess somehow they were put there, and not in the cavity of the turkey with the neck. Good thing they were wrapped up. :) Anyways, it turned out well. As did the stuffing, and the rolls were awesome. We tried a new recipe in this bread book that we really like. They turned out so good! Dan made them. Way to go Dan. It was a lot of work and cooking, but it was good. I have actually never made stuffing or gravy, but it wasn't hard at all.

The only down side to that day was I didn't get any pumpkin pie. The family we ate with bought some pies. We went over to their house that evening to eat pie, and for some reason the pumpkin pie wouldn't cook. When she took it out, it was still soupy. So she put it back in the oven, but it still wouldn't cook. By that point, it was late and Anna was fussy, so we went home without any pumpkin pie. I had some apple, but it made me sad that I didn't get any of the pumpkin pie.