Gratitude

Last night for family night we had a lesson on gratitude, and I challenged everyone in the family, including myself, to list ten things that they are thankful for. It was a fun exercise, and most everybody wrote more than ten things (overachievers!!!). :-)

Here is a sampling of some of the things the Goodale family is grateful for (in no particular order): family, freedom, chocolate, life, laughter, friends, fancy helicopters (huh???), Del Taco (hurray!!!), e-mail, movies, babies, food, parents, school (protests, anyone???), electricity, cold wet puppy-dog noses (Go Shadow!!!), cars, sports, Mom 'n Pop 'n the Sibs (sounds like a band name!), sweet house, tools (you know that came from Christopher!), Mr. Bevan (the Tech Center teacher that everyone thinks is cranky), extreme amounts of luck (we all know that "luck" is when preparation meets opportunity), Idahoans, wife, husband, the Atonement, liberty, music, musical abilities, trials (as in "challenges" - not the jury thing), silliness, tongues (on second thought, I guess they are kind of cool, as they allow us to talk, eat, taste...), light, food, clothes, good health, our great country, modern medicine...

As part of the gratitude for "silliness" (my listing), we watched something from what I bought at Costco yesterday. To wrap up family night, we watched the first two episodes from the Season One set of DVDs I bought of the "Get Smart" TV show. I've always been shocked that my kids had never seen that - so now they have! Greatest. Show. Ever. :-) Uh... well... would you believe "the second greatest show ever"? OK... how about a merely decent show?

The picture posted here, by the way, is just one proof from the family photo shoot we did a couple of weeks ago. A proof only, hence the photographer's watermark. We'll post the actual photos when we get all of them in. Our first family photo shoot in Boise, and we are so grateful to live in such a beautiful place!!!