The Turkey is in the oven....

and were getting everything else ready for a great Thanksgiving dinner with friends!

Today and everyday here are a few things we are thankful for...

Our Salvation

Each other

Wonderful parents who we love and adore

My brother

My grandparents!!!

Lots of great extended family

Health and Happiness

The men and women who serve this country!

To live in America

ARMANDO HOME SAFE AND SOUND TO ENJOY A THANKSGVING TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!

There are so many things to be thankful for every day, so today we will reflect on all of the blessings the Lord has given us, enjoy the day together, and be thankful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family, friends, good food, and lots of blessings!

We love you all, and Thank God for you, not just today but everyday!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2009!!!!!!!!

A time to be thankful....

and boy do we have alot to be thankful for!!! God is good!!! This Thanksgiving is going to be extra special since Armando is home and safe, able to share it with me!

We went yesterday and bought all of our stuff for a big Thanksgiving dinner with friends! It's nice to know we have good friends to share it with since we cannot be back home around family!
We are going to cook a Turkey for the first time! EEEK! Hoping it turns out good for everyone! We will take pictures and make sure to post them soon!

Also, it's family tradition on my Mom's side of the family to put Christmas decorations up on Thanksgiving Day! Armando and I do this as well, so we look forward to putting our tree up tommorow!!!! We've already been listening to Christmas music! Everyone out here is already in the Christmas spirit! All of the stores have been playing holiday tunes for a while now!

On Friday, we are leaving the house at 1:00 AM for the Black Friday sales! Armando has his eye on a new laptop we're going to try to get! *fingers crossed* I look forward to finishing up Christmas shopping, but do not look forward to braving this cold Colorado weather for hours trying to get a laptop! lol I started going to Black Friday many years ago with my Aunt Sandra! She's always included me in lots of fun things that I would have never got to do if it weren't for her, so for memories sake I will be making some stops at a few stores that I remember being excited about going to with her! Speaking of my Aunt Sandra, I first came to CO because of her inviting me on a road trip! I never knew back then I would be living here and getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas! Just one of many things I am thankful for! I was blessed with so many wonderful Aunts who are very near and dear to my heart!

On another note, I am up early this morning because I had to make a Catalina Taco Salad for Armando's NCO dinner at work! Hope it turned out okay and everyone enjoys it! Now, I'm off to get ready for Armando's appointment at the Air Force. This will be our last appointment before his surgery on the 4th! I have to go take classes on how to properly take care of him and how to do his range of motion when he returns home from the hospital! Keep him in your prayers!!

I love you all and wish you a Very Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Lots of love,
Jenny

Winter Fun!

Yesterday Armando and I made our very first snowman together!!! It was lots of fun! After we played around in the snow here at home we went to Walmart and bought a sled to go sledding! After driving around to a few different parks, we finally found one by our house that had big hills! I did some sledding, but mostly took pictures....ARMANDO HAD A BLAST!!! We had tons of fun! It's always great doing things together for the first time!!! We're always looking for stuff new stuff to do!

The mountains, lakes and hills were absolutely amazing which just made the fun all that more exciting! It's just absolutely beautiful here!

Here's a video of Armando sledding! :)

(Aren't the mountains beautiful!!?!!)

Another snowy morning...

I woke up this morning to lots of snow! I haven't measure it, but it looks to be around 4 or 5 inches and still snowing! it's absolutely beautiful! I can't wait for Armando to wake up and see it! Maybe today we will make our first snowman together! I will post pics later after Armando wakes up and we get outside for a while.

We both had a good week! Armando was off on Wednesday for Veterans day and on Thursday he had CQ where he works for 24 hours. Friday we went and did a lil Christmas shopping, bought our Christmas cards and things like that. Then we went and saw A Christmas Carol 3D! It was a great movie and really put me in the Christmas spirit! Yesterday was pretty much a lazy day here at home, we didn't even leave the house!

Oh! How could I forget, on Tuesday morning I woke up to a big beautiful boquet of roses from my sweet husband! I am so blessed to have a husband that's always doing little things to let me know he loves and appreciates me! It was very sweet!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, time just seems to fly by and the day is over before I ever make the time to sit down and write.

Hope everyone is doing good! Wish you were all here to see this beautiful snow! God is Good!!!

Love you all!
Jenny

Prayer....

Just a quick update..

I'm sure all of you have heard about the shootings in Ft. Hood by now. We were very saddened too hear the terrible news. Just wanted to write and ask all of you to say a special prayer for the family and friends that have lost loved ones today! We are praying that it isn't anyone we know on a personal basis. Regaurdless, this is our "family"! We all may not know one another, or even get along at times BUT we are all one big family... apart of something/roles that noone could even begin to understand unless they had walked in A Military person/family members shoes!

I pray that this horrific shooting will shed light on what these wars are doing to our soldiers and their families mental state. This is a hard life........... one that is not respected and acknowledged like it should be!


GOD BLESS AMERICA AND GOD BLESS THE AMAZING MEN AND WOMEN WHO SO BRAVELY AND UNSELFISHLY SERVE THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FT. HOOD SOLDIERS AND FAMILIES NEED YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!