Being thankful...

Tonight I was watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the one with Ty Pennington (such a cutie) and I realized how great of a life I have. This Extreme Makeover episode featured a woman and her family (her husband and 3 kids) and she is a 1 year survivor of cancer! Her mother is also a survivor of cancer. I guess they were having problems b/c of all the cancer treatment costs and everything that comes along with having cancer. Anyways, their "new" house is awesome and I am so glad that they will be able to have a better life with a new house and that there are people in this world that can be so generous to other people.

So as Thanksgiving is right around the corner, I think harder about what I am truely thankful for. How blessed I am to have such a wonderful husband, a beautiful baby girl, a roof over my head, food in my stomach, that my family and I are healthy.
What are you thankful for? Have you told your family and the ones close to you that you love them today? Do you tell them everyday?

I have a challenge for everyone who reads our blog...(hopefully we can acquire more readers soon). Last Christmas Chuck (my hubby) and I decided that our gift to each other for Christmas was to purchase a gift for a family or child that needed it. We got this idea as we were in Wal-Mart purchasing gifts for family and we walked by lets call it "The Giving Tree." You take a name or however many you want off the tree and buy them the gift that they "NEED" for them. We picked 4 children who needed new shoes and snow boots to keep their feet warm.

So our challenge to you is for you to find a charity or to find a tree similiar to the one at walmart (i'm sure they'll do it again this year) and GIVE! Whether it be a $5 gift or a $100 gift, you'll be so happy to know that a little child will now be able to go out and play in the snow b/c you purchased snow boots for her or that some parents will be able to put gifts under the Christmas tree for their kids this year or they will be able to have a Christmas/Thanksgiving feast! SO please, give this year for Christmas. Share this with your family, friends, coworkers, whoever!! Make it a tradition in your family, like my husband and I have.