Thankful!

God has blessed us with our special family......and with grandkids!! We love being able to spend time with our grands whenever possible, plus we planned Thanksgiving with Grandpa way earlier so that was a given!

The first pictures are from Thanksgiving day where of course we ate too much but we were happily miserable! Before dinner however, we got to spend time with the three kids riding bikes, taking a wagon ride, coloring, playing babies, and playing football. We had such a beautiful and glorious day we just could NOT stay in the house too much! Saw some geese at the pond and then had to get home to do chores for my sister....

 The cars Konnor is playing with were Eric and Shawn's when they were little guys.

Saturday we flew the 182 to Independence and then drove our beast truck to Grandpa and Bernies for another Thanksgiving dinner. We are so thankful God has brought grandpa through such a horrible trial this summer, but he is so much stronger now and looks great in his blue jeans again! Bless his sweet heart!  Also thankful that Jo and John were able to make the trek down from Emporia. Jo and I had visited on what to bring so we ended up with plenty of vittles for us all to be miserable. We all decided we needed to walk off our lunch, so we went out and checked the pasture and the deer hunting area, and had a great time being at the home place. After more pie and dessert, we made the trip home in time to witness another glorious sunset. In case you haven't noticed, I LOVE sunsets!

Home Sweet Home Airport - KAVK....

I have a really sweet video of our approach too, but you have to come home if you want to see it!  :-))

Houston International Quilt Show

Going south with a carload of quilters is indeed a dream....especially to see the most gorgeous quilts on the planet - not to mention enough vendors to fill the huge convention center from one end to the other. I never had my camera with me there but it was unbelieveable. I cannot imagine how many people were there, but it was staggering.

Besides the beautiful quilts, vendors, and eating out, we also decided to head to Galveston on Saturday. We took the ferry across to the peninsula and then up highway 10 back to Houston. What a trek! When we got back it was about time to gear up for the OSU and KSU game - so watched that! Way to go Cats. Sunday was spent driving home which took 12 hours - I was sure tired but glad to be home. Here are just a few of the images of my pictorial journey....

 Kristi and I went to the park - it was so pretty to see...notice the giant balls in the trees!

 This is our carload of girls.....me, Kristi, Susie, and Glenda. We literally shopped till we dropped!

 This is one of the artsy quilts that is not a block but just pieces of fabric and then free motion quilting on top!

 I really enjoyed looking at the traditional quilts - all of them were so unique.

 I bought this pattern at the Lynette Andersonn booth. The wheel barrow is a hand painted button. So pretty!

 One of the ferries coming back with a load of cars and people and motorcycles.

 Ships in the bay waiting to come in and dock and unload their cargo. We also saw some dolphins swimming close by but they were too fast for my camera. I'm sure the ferry stirs up some food for them but I did not see any in a pod like at Fripp.

 Letting my toes soak in some of that gulf coast water and sand!

I took a lot of pictures with my cell phone so I'll try and get those downloaded too. Downtown Houston was certainly pretty at night, especially from our hotel window. What a great time! Back in Kansas again.....until the next trip.