Family and Giving Thanks

At this time last year, our family was anticipating Patrick's safe return from Iraq and our reunion as a family. This year we celebrate a reunion with our extended family in Missouri.

From Kansas City, we traveled to St. Louis for Thanksgiving ... four hours in a vehicle traveling in a straight line rekindled a long-forgotten memory for most of us in the van! Thankfulness abounded as we pulled into the driveway of the Gregg homestead.

As with any reunion and/or holiday, we feasted and laughed and feasted some more with our loved ones. And what celebration would be complete without a few group photos to mark the occasion??

While we celebrated Thanksgiving over the past three years in Hawaii, complete with some of the "old" traditions mixed together with new ideas and locals, it is good to be with family and to rejoice together as we remember all of God's blessings over the past years.