So much to be thankful for!

  So with Thanksgiving last week, I have thought a lot about all of the many blessings I have received in the last year and throughout my life!  I realize more and more how much I have been blessed with!  To name all of my blessings would take too much time, but I definitely wanted to name a few:

1) Obviously Grant's and my biggest blessing this year was getting pregnant, having a great pregnancy and having a healthy, happy little boy.  Will has been such a little angel!  Grant and I can't imagine our little family without him.  We feel like through our love for Will, we have gained a greater understanding of our Heavenly Father's love for each of us!

2)  I am so grateful for Grant!  He has been such a wonderful husband and father!  Especially this year with my pregnancy, I can't think of a time he ever lost his patience with me, or let me carry anything over five pounds!  He was constantly looking for things he could do for me (i.e. let me sleep or take naps whenever I was tired, give me foot and leg massages when my feet and legs were tired or swollen, making dinner so I could relax when I got home from work, etc. etc. I could go on for quite awhile about all the sacrifices he made for me!)  There are so many times I have looked at Grant and just felt such an overwhelming sense of peace and comfort from knowing that we are sealed together and we can always be together!

3)  I can't imagine how different my life would have been had I not had such a wonderful family!  I look at my parents and brother and sisters and am amazed at what strong people they are.   Everyone has always been so supportive of me and been such great examples.  I am so grateful for my parents strong testimony and for the choice they made to always raise our family in the gospel.  Although I feel like I have been blessed with even material things, I have been even greater blessed to always have been taught the teachings of our church and have the priesthood in my home!  As for my siblings, I don't know what else to say but I love spending time with them and only wish I could see them more often.  But even with not seeing them as often, I will always consider them some of my best friends!  

4) Even though I am not looking forward to going back to work in a month, I do have to admit that I am so grateful for my job.  I love what I do and I love the people I work with.  Because I have such a great job, Grant and I are in a position where Grant can stay home with Will until we go to law school, while I work and we don't have to put Will in a day care.  All throughout this year, there has been so much talk about the unemployment rate and I can't help but feel blessed in having such a good, secure job with great benefits.  

5)  I am grateful for my testimony of the gospel and how it has given me strength throughout my life.  The gospel has always been such a guiding influence on the decisions I make.  I look at myself and see plenty of areas where I need to improve and be a better person, and I know that I have not only this life but the next life as well to continue to learn and grow and better myself.  I am grateful that this last weekend Grant was able to bless Will at my parent's home.  He promised Will with many beautiful blessings that would come to him throughout his life by following the gospel.  I am grateful to Grant and that he is a worthy priesthood holder and that he was able to do that for Will.  Without the gospel, I know I couldn't be the person I am right now.

   I have to admit that this year has been such a wonderful year filled with so many blessings!  I know I have been blessed in many more ways then I can even imagine or recognize!  I have so much to be grateful for!