Welcome to Thankful Thursday Dec. 31, 2009 & Happy New Year!

Good Morning Sweet Friends

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Hope this finds you all well, content, and happy

this New Years Eve!  *

Wow,  can hardly believe another year has come

and almost gone.........Unbelieveable how fast the

time is flying.  Always heard from my mom and

grandmother the longer you live the faster life goes

and I must say I have to agree!

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#1

I am thankful

Hubby has been off from work and will be till

January 4th,  and he is sooooo enjoying his vacation.

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We never take our Christmas decorations down

until after he goes back to work just so he can

fully enjoy his time off,  cause usually the beginning

of it we are preparing for the big day and you

know all that involves.

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#2

I am thankful

 we have watched every Christmas movie

there is!  lol 

Jim's absolute favorite thing is watching movies,

but we pretty much watch nothing but... tmas

movies during this time of year and we love it!

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#3

I am thankful

We have also been reading our Sunday School

book and a new book he bought me for tmas,

"You were born for this" by Bruce Wilkerson.

We are about 4 chapter into it and it is pretty

exciting book.

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#4

I am thankful

Tuesday Jim went for his stress test and we are

still awaiting the results,  but feel like No news

is good news,  cause the Dr. said if there is a

problem they will call you right away.

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#5

I am thankful that

Tuesday morning it was neat cause he usually

reads a devotional online by Charles Stanley

and when he pulled it up,  he said guess what

the title is?????? 

It was "A healthy Heart!"

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Made us feel like the Lord was saying don't

worry, you have a healthy heart,  course,

the devotional was on a spiritually healthy

heart of course, but it was sure an encourage-

ment to us,  so we went to the Drs.  with

peace in our hearts.

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Some would say that is probably conincidence,

but we have walked with the Lord long enough

to know there is no coincidence with the Lord.

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#5

I am thankful that

While he was having an EKG the Dr. told him

that it did not show where he had the heart

attack before (4 yrs ago), and he said that is

a very rare thing, that just doesn't  happen.

So that was also a huge encouragement cause

it shows us the Lord has been doing some

work in there for sure! 

They still have to go over some sort of

images or xrays they took for the final

results but we are expecting the results to be

very exciting, in a good way, which will

confirm a lot of  things we have said to our

Dr. over these last 4 years.

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I was just writing,  but decided all these things

really are praises so I went back and stuck

in the numbers and the I am thankful for line,

that way my post will be shorter.

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#6

I  am thankful

We were given Carabbas cards by my sister-

in- law for tmas and so we were able to

go out to dinner after the stress tests and

just enjoy the rest of the day.

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after dinner we ran to Sam's and Target

to return something, and then we went

guess where???

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To see the movie, Disney's "Christmas Carol"

#7

I am thankful

For what a great movie it was,  if you haven't

seen it,  by all means go............

It was delightful and fun with that wonderful

message of hope.  All those special effects

were great,  and they were singing real Christmas

Carols with the the true meaning of Christmas.

  The 3d effects were just truly amazing,  you really

felt like you were flying over the city,  it was truly

 such a  fun and meaningful movie.

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Yesterday we didn't do a lot just did some

more reading,  sat out in the sun some to

keep warm,  that was earlier in the day

when it was still a bit chilly,  got to 71

yesterday. 

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#8

And I am thankful for

This beautiful Florida Winter Scenery

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This is a tree in our backyard,  and altho

we have the dead wintery looking trees

we also have this.

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We have 2 large pots full of this bougainvilla and it

is the first year it has bloomed like this in the winter.

Guess it must have finally gotten established.

Sure brightens up a winter yard!

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And this is the bougainvilla Scott gave me for

my birthday,  it is just blooming away too.

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And this is called a "Powder Puff tree".

I think it might be a kin to the Acacia tree,

cause it looks very much alike,  accept it has

pretty light pink and yellow powder puffs.

We had one in our yard when I was a kid

and I used to play in it all the time and loved

to play with the powder puffs,  great toy

for lil girls,  cause they pretend to be putting

on their makeup!! lol

It always bloom only in the winter time.

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Thought you might like to see a  close up of the powder puff, 

aren't they neat!! The ones from the acacia tree are baby pink on

top with just a little layer of  sunflower yellow near the stem.

I love that the flower bud looks sort of  like a raspberry

before it opens

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We haven't had a freeze yet,  so that is winter in Florida

for now anyway.

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Hope you have some nice plans for New Years Eve,

and that you will be somewhere safe!

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#9

I am thankful

We are going to our church a 11:00 tonight for a Watch night

 prayer service.  They are always a sweet time of fellowship.

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#10

I am thankful

We are going out to breakfast after, at International House

of Pancakes possibly with some friends.

And none of this is too far from our house, so that is nice as well.

 Not a night I like to be out driving around with all those Celebraters

out there indulging in too much alcohol.

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#11

I am thankful

For another year to look forward to,  with all it ups and downs,

and all the neat things the Lord will teach us through them.

Because with Jesus the best is always yet to come!

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Well My Friends...................

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Have a Very Happy New Year,

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Love, Peace, and Joy to you all!

Nellie

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