Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone! I hope everyone had a joyous holiday yesterday, whether that was spend with family, friends, friends who are like family, watching football, or eating way more calories than we need to consume in a given week! I haven't done this in a bit, but here's the latest from the Kennedy household this past week!**1**
We spent a wonderful evening with a family from our church, the Yangs', who gracious invited us over to dinner. There were about 14 of us there, their family of 4, their grandparents, an uncle, an elderly couple from church whose own kids/grandkids were with the ohter side of the family, and three college boys who were around. We commented on how that was such a fun multi-generational celebration. We had delicious food, and then after dinner we got to take part in the Yang family tradition of the post-thanksgiving monopoly game they play every year. It's wonderful to be able to join in and be part of someone else's family when our own families are so far away. I know my parents spent the day with their good friends from church, participating in their family's holiday gathering as they have for so many holidays when Megs and I were not there. We're all thankful for friends who welcome us into their families!
**2**
I am not joining the black Friday shopping crowd. I never have. In fact, except for the year I worked retail and had to work the day after Thanksgiving, I'm not sure I have ever set foot into a store on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I'm planning on keeping that trend going again :) We already know what we're getting family members for Christmas, and nothing we're planing on buying is going to be a different price today. I love coming up with gifts that don't require crammed malls, screaming children, and obnoxious customers :)
**3**
Charles and I are excited to get to start one of our first family tradition this weekend! We've been talking a lot about what kinds of things are important to us as we create a family system of our own, and one thing we want to be intentional about is bringing the church year into our home in tangible ways, hoping to one day teach our kids to love and appreciate the beauty of the seasons of the church calendar, to see how we can experience God throughout the year. Tomorrow a friend and I are going to make advent wreaths, and Charles and I ordered what looks like a fabulous book called Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas which is full of a different couple-page reading each day from a famous theologian on the meaning of the Incarnation, reflections on Jesus coming to earth. We're pretty excited to get to light a candle each night and read and reflect together! Happy Advent everyone!
**4**
Tonight we are headed down to Hollywood to see The Christmas Carol at Disney's El Capitan theater (a very cool theater where they try to make the movies come alive by having some type of live performance prior to the show starting). We're celebrating our 8th monthiversary together :)
**5**
We are getting excited for all that is coming up over Christmas break! In just about 2 weeks! We'll be around LA for a week after finals, chaperoning a youth lock in, I'll be grading student's final projects, Chuck is going to camp/surf for at least a night (I may join him on the camping part if it isn't too cold!), and enjoying a bit of rest before all our travel begins! We decided we didn't want to do quite the whirlwind trip we did last year where we covered 4 major cities in 2.5 weeks. While it was very fun to see everyone, this led to an overnight in an airport, lost luggage, and a lot of jet lag! We are going to be with both families again this year, but we chose to spend a bit more of an extended time with each instead of doing 3-day stints in each place before popping over to somewhere else! We'll be in South Carolina from the night of the 17th to the morning of the 23rd, and we'll be in Minnesota from the afternoon of the 23rd to the morning of the 30th. We'll get to see all our family and hopefully enjoy being settled in one location for 5-6 days each! When we come back, our Christmas gift to each other is a night or two in a bed and breakfast somewhere, where we can relax, recover from our travels before school starts, and explore some new area of southern California!
**6**
The cutest little turkey on the block :) We get to see her in 25 days, I am very excited to get to spend her first Christmas with her and am already started on her homemade gift :)
She looks a little worried, I hope someone told her she is not the thanksgiving turkey, she's just wearing one!
**7**
Job hunt is going slow, but well, it's going. I'm applying for some director positions at various churches--director of youth or children's ministries mostly. I have an application in here at a church in Simi Valley, and I sent a resume to two different churches, one in Portland and one in Illinois. Honestly, at this point, we aren't even really caring where jobs are located, we're just sending out resumes and we'll sort through all the options later on, but we wanted to at least start getting our names out there a bit. We're kind of at a place where there's nothing to report, but we're okay with that.
We spent a wonderful evening with a family from our church, the Yangs', who gracious invited us over to dinner. There were about 14 of us there, their family of 4, their grandparents, an uncle, an elderly couple from church whose own kids/grandkids were with the ohter side of the family, and three college boys who were around. We commented on how that was such a fun multi-generational celebration. We had delicious food, and then after dinner we got to take part in the Yang family tradition of the post-thanksgiving monopoly game they play every year. It's wonderful to be able to join in and be part of someone else's family when our own families are so far away. I know my parents spent the day with their good friends from church, participating in their family's holiday gathering as they have for so many holidays when Megs and I were not there. We're all thankful for friends who welcome us into their families!
**2**
I am not joining the black Friday shopping crowd. I never have. In fact, except for the year I worked retail and had to work the day after Thanksgiving, I'm not sure I have ever set foot into a store on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I'm planning on keeping that trend going again :) We already know what we're getting family members for Christmas, and nothing we're planing on buying is going to be a different price today. I love coming up with gifts that don't require crammed malls, screaming children, and obnoxious customers :)
**3**
Charles and I are excited to get to start one of our first family tradition this weekend! We've been talking a lot about what kinds of things are important to us as we create a family system of our own, and one thing we want to be intentional about is bringing the church year into our home in tangible ways, hoping to one day teach our kids to love and appreciate the beauty of the seasons of the church calendar, to see how we can experience God throughout the year. Tomorrow a friend and I are going to make advent wreaths, and Charles and I ordered what looks like a fabulous book called Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas which is full of a different couple-page reading each day from a famous theologian on the meaning of the Incarnation, reflections on Jesus coming to earth. We're pretty excited to get to light a candle each night and read and reflect together! Happy Advent everyone!
**4**
Tonight we are headed down to Hollywood to see The Christmas Carol at Disney's El Capitan theater (a very cool theater where they try to make the movies come alive by having some type of live performance prior to the show starting). We're celebrating our 8th monthiversary together :)
**5**
We are getting excited for all that is coming up over Christmas break! In just about 2 weeks! We'll be around LA for a week after finals, chaperoning a youth lock in, I'll be grading student's final projects, Chuck is going to camp/surf for at least a night (I may join him on the camping part if it isn't too cold!), and enjoying a bit of rest before all our travel begins! We decided we didn't want to do quite the whirlwind trip we did last year where we covered 4 major cities in 2.5 weeks. While it was very fun to see everyone, this led to an overnight in an airport, lost luggage, and a lot of jet lag! We are going to be with both families again this year, but we chose to spend a bit more of an extended time with each instead of doing 3-day stints in each place before popping over to somewhere else! We'll be in South Carolina from the night of the 17th to the morning of the 23rd, and we'll be in Minnesota from the afternoon of the 23rd to the morning of the 30th. We'll get to see all our family and hopefully enjoy being settled in one location for 5-6 days each! When we come back, our Christmas gift to each other is a night or two in a bed and breakfast somewhere, where we can relax, recover from our travels before school starts, and explore some new area of southern California!
**6**
The cutest little turkey on the block :) We get to see her in 25 days, I am very excited to get to spend her first Christmas with her and am already started on her homemade gift :)
She looks a little worried, I hope someone told her she is not the thanksgiving turkey, she's just wearing one!
**7**
Job hunt is going slow, but well, it's going. I'm applying for some director positions at various churches--director of youth or children's ministries mostly. I have an application in here at a church in Simi Valley, and I sent a resume to two different churches, one in Portland and one in Illinois. Honestly, at this point, we aren't even really caring where jobs are located, we're just sending out resumes and we'll sort through all the options later on, but we wanted to at least start getting our names out there a bit. We're kind of at a place where there's nothing to report, but we're okay with that.
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