Aggressively Giving Thanks

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(Thank you to http://unexpected.org/ for the phrase aggressively giving thanks)

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I try to consciously focus on giving thanks daily with varying degrees of success. The craziness of fall almost made me skip over the Thanksgiving holiday completely (not to mention recent events), but in an effort to document the Lewis family memories, here are pictures from the official Thanksgiving holiday of 2016.

We spent 3 days in East Tennessee with Brian's family. The cousins spent hours upon hours making silly videos on the iPad while adults visited (and cooked and cleaned up and then cooked and cleaned up some more). It was interesting to see my 13-year-old and the nearly-13-year-old cousin join in the adult discussions. We are most definitely entering into a new phase.

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the most awkward picture ever, but one of my favorites of the year
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Comments

VinGirl said…
Thinking of you today, Melissa. ❤️
9:33 AM
Mayme said…
You've been on my mind all day. Praying...
4:27 PM
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