Over Thanksgiving weekend we went down to Sikeston to visit my family. Sadly I didn't get many pictures (too busy having fun I guess!) But I did get pictures of one of the very special reasons why we went down there...Sterling's baptism and Amelia's blessing. Sadly we missed the blessing (story below) but the baptism was great! It's amazing to me to see the growth of each of our nieces and nephews and to see them make such great decisions in the Gospel. We are so proud of Sterling!
Our Thanksgiving weekend was kind of eventful but very fun nonetheless. We started out in Cape Girardeau to eat Thanksgiving dinner with my Dad's side of the family. This was Nick's first time at this side's get together (so obviously the kids first time too). He's met a lot of people on my Dad's side, it's just never worked out for us to go to Thanksgiving there. It was a lot of fun and it was great to catch up with that side. 4 of the 7 Felker kids and their families were there so that was fun that a lot of us got to go at the same time. The Friday after Thanksgiving we pretty much just let the kids play all day at Jan's while Nick went back up to Cape to pick up Arlaine's car that we were going to tow back with us. Friday night we met up with Jami and her husband and Abby and her husband for dinner. That was fun to catch up with all of them and visit. Our kids definitely kept them entertained as well as wondering why they each wanted kids!!
Saturday we attended Ben Wright's funeral. It was a very emotional day as this funeral was not expected at all. There were many people at his funeral and you could really tell he was really loved. We got to visit with Edward and his family afterwards and it was good to let the kids play with one another and to visit with Edward and Stephanie.
Then there's Sunday. We left the hotel in time to get to Jan's to hook up the car and head to church on time. It was freezing cold and raining, so I was outside trying to keep Nick covered with an umbrella. We got the car hooked up and pulled forward a bit so the rest of my family could leave to go to the church as the truck was blocking them while we were hooking up the car. Nick went to check it and noticed it wasn't latched all the way, so he unhooked the car to hook it up again correctly. The tongue of the trailer was just like 1/2 an inch away from the hitch so Nick decided to try and push the tongue over the hitch instead of jacking up the trailer again and moving it over. Well, as mentioned before it was raining and we're heading to church so he has on his church shoes. His feet slip right out from under him and his head hits the pavement. He gets up and his face is all bloody and scrapped down the whole front of his face. I'm freaking out trying to figure out what I can do to help with anything. He gets white and has to sit down so as not to faint. Then after a bit he gets up and gets the car hooked up the rest of the way. Mike and Katie were still at the house and saw him fall, their girls still pray for him now as they saw all the blood on his face. So after all this we thought we'd still make the blessing, but we barely missed it and everyone at church thought I had beat Nick! Haha! It was a stressful morning but we did get to go to the baptism. So it was a good Thanksgiving altogether but very eventful!
