Happy Thanksgiving!

No, not Happy Turkey Day. The only happy turkeys are…well, you can’t be a happy turkey. Either you’re dead or you’re still a turkey. Not a great choice. The point of the day is not to celebrate turkeys, it’s to celebrate thanksgiving…you know, the giving of thanks.

And it’s not just the giving of thanks, but giving thanks to our Creator, our Maker, the One who provides life and all the good things we enjoy.

Like turkey (and dressing and mashed potatoes and football and the Gators and – you get the idea).

To repeat myself, we don’t celebrate turkeys, we kill them.

That would also make this a good day to kill the Turkey Spirit. That would be the attitude that doesn’t give thanks, that takes things for granted, that complains at everything, that is awed by nothing.

That’s the intro to this clip, which is perfect for Thanksgiving, and which I may use the next time I preach about complaining.

(Honestly, this has to be one of my favorite clips ever.)

Doesn’t she have that look on her face?

Happy Birthday to my best friend, my partner, my {blush} lover, my wife…the Lovely Trudi celebrates the day the world was blessed with her.

And we celebrate, too.

A little sympathy for Trudi today…she’s spent more of her life with me than without me. We’ve been married 22 years today; she was only 21 when we married. Obviously, she didn’t figure out how to get her fingers out of those rings quick enough. (Odd games photographers play, don’t you think?)

It’s been a great 22 years.

Happy Birthday, Sawyer Layne!

As I’ve said before, she’s a delight to her family and everyone who knows her. Kind, generous, sweet…okay I’m getting mine in early for our little family tradition. (What family tradition, you ask? I’ll blog about it some other time.)

Nine years have gone by quickly.