Thankful

This is late, but here is my Thanksgiving post for 2010.

• I am thankful that Lamar and I are an excellent team.  We have always worked well together; I think that is one of the reasons we get along so well.  We can accomplish tasks together.  Well, we made a nice Thanksgiving dinner together, and it was great.  We wanted to have a Cape Verdean Thanksgiving this year. 
• I am thankful for friends, especially the friends I have made here during my service.  We invited one of Lamar's friends from work and his wife, a former student of mine, and two of our ex-patriot friends here. 
• I am thankful for learning a new language.  We spent the night speaking Creole/Portuguese and having a great time together.    It was so rewarding.
• I am thankful for being able to find a turkey and the things we needed to make an American dinner.  It was such a blessing to have a taste of home.  We even saved the wild rice our Sunday school class in Albuquerque sent us for tonight.  It was great.
• I am thankful for being able to open up our home to people I care about and feed them, love them, and pray blessings over them. 

Lamar and I and our Thanksgiving table cloth and homemade banner.

Me washing dishes in an apron (aka Lamar's old t-shirt) with our beautiful view behind me.

Back, from left:  Lamar, me, Valdir, Dominika
Front, from left:  Isaac, Rosa (Valdir's wife), and Laurence

Some of our Thanksgiving decorations:  politically incorrect and culturally insensitive Native Americans and Pilgrims.

After dinner, we cleaned up, and then we put up Christmas decorations, including this little guy: