Happy Thanksgiving!

Michael and I will leave Wednesday morning to fly home to Texas for Thanksgiving! We will be spending Thanksgiving with my family in Kilogre this year- we are SO very excited and are anxious to go home! We're a bit nervous to brave the Thanksgiving airport crowds for the first time, but it will be worth it!

We just wanted to take a second to wish you all a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving! We will be remembering you all in our prayers so that you may have safe travels and wonderful times with your families and friends.

And given the theme of the holiday, I figured it was only appropriate to share my "thankful" list with you:

I'm SO thankful for:

-Having God in my life and being amazed and reminded every day by how blessed I am and how much God loves me.
-My amazing husband that I am blessed to spend my life with. I never imagined someone could fill my heart with so much love and joy and always find a way to put a smile on my face.
-Our families: the most wonderful people in the world that have loved us unconditionally and made who we are today.
-Our friends, both new and old: So many fun times with you all, each person so unique and wonderful in their own way.
-Our country we live in and the freedoms we have
-The opportunity and experience of living in MN - a time of new experiences
-Our jobs & all the stress that comes with them :)
-Our health - the ability to see, hear, walk and talk
-Our experiences in life, our travels, etc.
-Our challenges & struggles b/c we are given opportunities to grow from those times
-Our home, our clothing, always having food to eat and a warm bed to sleep in

I could go on and on! We are all so very blessed and please know that we miss you all very much.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Zajicek's!

Early Turkey Dinner with the Bruggerheads

This weekend we went to Des Moines to see Jared & Amber! Jared got a free turkey from work, so we decided to try out Jared's turkey fryer and have ourselves an early Tgiving dinner. We were totally grown ups, yes. :)

J & M did great frying the turkey! They injected it with some Tony C's creole butter and fried it in peanut oil. YUM-O!! Amber prepared some delicious sides: stuffing, cranberries, rolls, etc and topped it off with a yummy pumpkin pie! It was such a fun night and obviously just delicious! :)

The highlight of Saturday afternoon was a trip to the mall in West Des Moines. What is so special about going to the mall you ask? Well it was because we got to eat lunch at CHICK-FIL-A!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my, it has never tasted SOOOOOOOO good. For those that didn't know, Michael and I had a slight obsession with CFA in Texas. We would eat there every Saturday in Humble and then I would go at least once with my work buddies during the week. Then we had to quit cold turkey b/c MN has not been blessed with this franchise yet. So, we ate our little hearts out; I think I only chewed about 3 bites of mine. ;)

And as usual, we topped the weekend off with lots of great conversation with J&A and some good ol' spades playing with our favorite spades buddies. It makes me laugh every time we play because we all end up doing some goofy dance around the table or one person is always breaking out in song the whole time. haha Thanks J&A for a great weekend!

The chefs getting ready!

Good bye Mr. Turkey!

The after pic! YUM!

Ready for a feast!