More Thanksgiving -

Like others, our lives have been very busy since Thanksgiving. It is so crazy how busy the Christmas season can get. Before we get to far into our Christmas stories, I wanted to write about the rest of our Thanksgiving.

For Thanksgiving, we continued our time with our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and extended families. Caleb and Ashlyn really enjoyed hanging out with all of their cousins.

One of the greatest things about Thanksgiving is that the last few years we get to enjoy our time with some of our dear friends from Russia. Dennis, Natasha, Arina, and Carolina have spent the last few years in America and we really value thier friendship. It is only by the grace of God that we even know them. Our adoption with Caleb allowed us to meet them in Yekaterinburg and we have remained friends ever since. It is one of those friendships that you can see God's hand all over it. When we were in Russia, we were there about four weeks, and these sweet people were our family and only friends while we were there. Now they are here in America, and we continue to have that same friendship. They will only be here in America a few more years and then they will be heading back to Russia. We try to spend as much time with them as possible.

Caleb and Arina are such great friends.

Even Ashlyn enjoyed her new friends. Carolina and Ashlyn loved playing together.

Natasha and Dennis hanging out at Monty's parents house.