the best thanksgiving ever...

wow ... do we have a lot to be thankful for! this time last year i was thankful to have an amazing fiance, and we were planning our december wedding. little did we know that in less than a year our family would be expanding and all of our dreams would come true! billy and i got married on december 29th (what an AMAZING day) and found out on february 21st that little brady was on the way! we were 4 weeks along and were filled with joy. God has been so good to us! brady is doing great ... he is eating like crazy and has started sleeping almost 5 hours at a time. i am in my 8th week of maternity leave and am already dreading the fact that i will have to leave him in january. BUT, we are thankful for an amazing lady that is going to be taking care of him during the day. God really answered that prayer in a mighty way! more things that make us thankful: old friends and new friends, family that is close to home and family that is far away, our health, a roof over our heads, jobs, benefits, freedom, our dogs, the simplicity of a lazy saturday morning, a cozy warm bed, prayers, marriage, love and a hopeful future. when i look back over the past several years, i realize that things, however crazy and hard they may seem, always work out for the good. that is not just a cliche' to me ... it is so true. i think we've all been through tough times where we could not imagine WHY we were going through those things. but to be able to look back and make sense of it all REALLY makes me thankful!