December Birthdays

The Ginn family has two birthdays for the month of December. Me and my lovely daughter Hannah. I was the big 40 on the 9th and Hannah will be 9 on December 18th. Someone once asked me if I hated having a birthday so close to Christmas. I told them I just get more presents in one month. I do feel older this year. I guess it is a big deal to turn 40.

Thankfulness

I thought that it would be appropriate to list some things that I am thankful for for the year of 2009. Our family has had great adversity this year but it has only made us stronger and that I am thankful for. I am grateful for healthy beautiful children who are growing up right before my eyes. I am so blessed to have a wonderful husband who honors his priesthood and is a great father and loving husband.I am grateful for the gospel . Above all I am blessed to know of my Savior Jesus Christ and his love for me. He is the center of my world and without him my life would be empty and obsolete. I am thankful everyday for all of the wonderful blessings that the Lord has bestowed upon me and my family.

November Birthdays

November is a very special month in the Ginn household. Gregg and Melanie have a birthday almost a week apart. Gregg's is th 12th and Melanie's is the 17th. This year Gregg was 41 and Mel was 12.




Melanie got a sweet hair cute for her birthday from her Nana. She got to go to the salon this time and get pampered.Her she is sporting profile 1 and profile 2. She is also very excited about going to Young Women. She will really add to our wonderful Young Women's program.

Happy Birthday Mel Mel.

Happy Birthday to my best friend. We all love you so very much!!!!

Veterans are Remembered

In honor of our Veterans the youth in our stake had a wonderful service project to put flags at every grave in this Veterans cemetery. There were about 3,000 plots. There was a great turn out for the service project.

This is an LDS Veteran. Notice the Moroni symbol.

This was Melanie's first service project with the youth. She is really growing up to be a beautiful young woman.

Caroline loves service projects. She was very excited to be here for this special project.

Our cousins are in the same stake and the girls are excited to see them at functions

like this one.



I am very grateful to all of the men and women who serve and protect our country. I am especially grateful for our Veterans and those who have died defending our freedom. God bless our country.

Halloween Excitement

Who are these people you ask? Well They decided to dress up like the bishop and his wife. Matt is wearing a bald wig and stuffed his shirt to resemble Gregg's plumpness. Nondi curled her hair and is wearing a long skirt and scarf to try and resemble me. We were stunned when they told us who they were. We laughed and laughed. All of this took place at the trunk or treat chili cookoff that our ward did on Friday night. It was a ton of fun.

What a perfect bee costume for little Kimberly. She fits the role!!

Here are the trick or treaters for this year. We have little Red Riding Hood, Scary Skeleton Grim Reaper mix, Gypsy, and Bumble Bee. I think they love it more than Christmas.

October Moments

I remember showing the cotton last year, but I wanted to post it again because I just love how beautiful it looks. It is about ready to be picked here. October is the month for cotton picking. I just love having a cotton field in my front yard.

Last weekend we went camping at Jordan Lake. It was quite an adventure and lots of fun. You will notice that little Kimberly is not with us for she was entrusted to her grandparents. I did not want to have Kimberly in the woods, cold at night. It was quite cold for mid October and that is the only way I will camp.

Notice the tinfoil at the base of the fire. That is our delicious hobo dinners with real steak and everything. They were very good.

The camp fire was the real hit of the whole trip. It was very large but most importantly it was our main source of heat. That night it got down to 38 degrees.

Kimberly and I decided to make gingerbread families before December this year. I love gingerbread and the smell is delightful. She did such a good job decorating them by herself. She also loved biting the heads off of the cookies.

That is just a few of the Ginn adventures for October. I will be posting our Halloween costumes and fun by next weekend I hope.

LAST DAYS OF SUMMER

Well summer is just about gone. Fall is right in our doorstep. I wanted to post some picture of our trip to the Holden Beach since we finally got a chance to go. We waited all summer for a trip to the beach and the last weekend of August we got our wish. My aunt and uncle have a beach house they let us use. I just love spending quality time with my family. We don't have alot of quality time together as a family because my husband stays gone quite a bit with his job and calling. We had a much needed break and it was a special weekend just to enjoy each other. I love making memories with my eternal family.

The girls enjoyed scaring away the seagulls.

Caroline and I are feeding those starving seagulls. MINE,MINE, MINE, MINE, remember from "Finding Nemo."

The beach will always be my favorite place to go. I have always enjoyed my times spent there. What a beautiful place!!