thankful tree

For most of November, we made a thankful tree. Each day, we each colored, cut out and wrote on a leaf something we were each thankful for.

So, here's what we were each thankful for in no particular order. Something was only allowed to go on the tree once. No duplicates. Ben, Ted and I all did fall colored leaf. Any misc color or multi-colored leaf would be Sophie.

This is our tree minus the last 4 (16 total) we each did. No one was really in
the mood to cut all of them out. You get the visual picture!

Ben
Jesus
church
music
beer
coffee
fall weekend
ipad
young life leaders
opportunities
monday night football
music ability
cable (we get cable for football season each year and then go back to basic cable in january)
home
God's word
solitude
a morgantown committee
jacob nixon (a leader he disciples each week)
diet coke
mac (as in mac computers)
west "by god" virginia
the mountaineers
living close to Ruby Hospital
xm radio
gift cards
walmart

Laura
hugs and kisses
date night
redemption
forgiveness
sophie
healthy kids
good health insurance
fountain coke in styrofoam cups
ann taylor loft (after my last trip to charleston and the jackpot in sales)
morgantown
charleston
laughter
friends
naps
sunshine (after many nice days in november)
god's timing
staying home
technology
prayer
mileage reimbursement (after we turned in our first reimbursement in over a year!)
doctors
god's provision
generosity
scotch-a-roos
my nook
commercial-less kids tv (pbs & disney channel)

Ted
millie
grandma & pap
mom & dad (after talking with a girl in his class who's mom is in jail)
fair (that would be town & country days)
army (after some army guys came to his class around veteran's day)
the santens
school
young life camp
basketball (after signing him up this season)
family
crafts
bike
bus
shoeboxes (after doing the shoeboxes for samaritan's purse)
mario kart
sabertooth tiger (don't know where that came from)
the river
burger king
mom's phone
family trips
picture day (after family pictures)
christmas trees (after helping put up the tree)
monster truck from mr. jay (his small group leader at church visited in the hospital and brought him a monster truck!)
chicken crescents (his all-time favorite food)
shows (tv)
coloring books (the special one katrina sent him)

Sophie
god
doh & pap
mommy
ted
club (after going to mhs club with ben & ted one night)
milk
tuesday school
snuggling
chap stick (is she ever!)
scooters
thanksgiving
popcorn
singing with ted at church
daddy
wrestling w/ ted & daddy
cleaning w/ mommy (she does love this)
zoo (i guess she was thinking back to our summer trip to the zoo?)
toys
my thumb
playing w/ daddy
play doh
myself
aunt sara (after spending the day with her while ted had surgery)
straws (???)
christmas

And there you have it.