Today is Thanksgiving, which is my second favorite holiday ever  (my first favorite is Halloween). I love the emphasis on family and good, two things I love dearly! So I have a lot to be thankful for today. I’m thankful that we were able to successfully host our first Thanksgiving meal and that we get to spend this day with my parents, with Nick’s mom, Laura, who is equally as awesome as my parents, and with our little doggies. It was a really great day.

Our First Thanksgiving Spread

As I was making breakfast one morning, this is what I saw out of my kitchen window. It’s Nick and Mia, playing around outside. And it’s one of my favorite things about my life 🙂

I’m thankful for laughter. It’s just so much fun to do and you know when you’re doing it you’re having fun. What’s not to love about that? It’s also a pretty powerful medicine; even on my crappiest days I’ll start to feel better if I can laugh. Of course that means I have to actually find something funny, but when I do, it makes me feel better.

I happen to have a huge smile and boisterous laugh. Don’t believe me? Just look at this photo (or almost any of my wedding photos):

Yup. This is just the way it is and I wouldn’t change it for anything. So, have you laughed today?

…wait, isn’t that from a cheese commercial? Oops. Oh, well. GET TO LAUGHING! 🙂

I believe that to be truly happy in life you can’t take anything for granted. You have to account for every single blessing, no matter how small. That’s one of the reasons I’ve started these projects – so I don’t lose sight of them. Tonight I’m thankful for all of those little blessing and mostly for the good luck I’ve had that has made it all possible.

Nick and I both have really good jobs that we were able to hold on to through these hard times. Having two incomes has made it possible for us to pay for the beautiful and simple wedding of our dreams, buy a first home which is better than I could have imagined, keep food on our table,  add Mia to our family and provide for her and Chico, and we’re able to entertain ourselves with movies, music, shopping, etc. We’re incredibly lucky to have all that we do. So tonight and EVERY night I am incredibly grateful and I try to give back as much as I can.