Thanksgiving Reese family pictures

Thanksgiving photo shoot.

When my Mom started gathering everyone for pictures, I hurried to get my youngest three kids ready. Thinking that my husband and oldest son Ryan were over at my Grandma's house and would come with the other family members that were visiting there. So I finally make it out to the field in which we are doing pictures, last of course, and my husband and son are nowhere to be found. I finally got a phone call through to my husband who was visiting at my uncle Carry's house and got him there for pictures. Ryan however had taken off on a hike with my cousin Mark and his dad uncle Ken, in spite of being told   NO   when he asked if he could go.   

 We decided we needed to do some crazy pictures since our kids would never all hold still and look at the camera at the same time. Here are some pictures that catch us as we truly are crazy and chaotic.

 The picture frame that was the inspiration for the photo shot. My mom had found it and had been wanting to use it for pictures for a long time. Please note: Dan's bandaged fingers. While killing our beef he cut himself with the new knife he had gotten for his birthday. He made it home from helping my dad kill the beef at 12:00 at night, then headed to the ER for a few stitches.

Our family picture. Back row, left to right: Tyler, Brandt, Jeff, Dan, Lisa (Mom), John (Dad), John, Rob holding Sara( Melissa's daughter), and Kevin. Front Row, left to right: Cortni (Brandt's wife), Marie (Jeff's wife)

Eternal Perspective

This morning after taking a shower I started the bath for Dalton and Adam. When I went down stairs to get Adam for his bath I found him with the bottle of Triminic cold medicine sipping on it. I had given Sage a dose this morning for her cough and runny nose before school. He must have seen it and gotten into the cupboard above the stove hood. Any way I freaked out and tried to get him to throw up and couldn't so I called Dan to see if he had something that could help. He came home and tried to gag Adam to get him to throw up. All that did was make Dan throw up. So we decide to run to Walgreen's to get some ipecac to get him to throw up. Well they no longer make that. So we drove home and on the way back Adam throw up, yes it was all over the car and him. I was so thankful for that.
All morning I have been grumpy and ornery because my house is such a mess, and gets this way every time I work. When this happen I realized that a mess house is the least of my worries. I also realized that if a messy house is the worst of my trials in this life. Then I am a very blessed person in indeed.
I think the Lord blessed me with my crazy Adam to help me keep an eternal perspective. It seems he does something like this every time I decided to get ambitious and clean up my house or yard.