Thanksgiving in Wetumka Part IV

We spent Thanksgiving in Wetumpka, Oklahoma at Randy and Nancy's ranch again this year, for the fourth year in a row. This year, Jack and Graham both were over-the-moon excited about their annual Collin and Cody day.

As ever, Graham loves being around family and getting attention and love lavished on him. This was also the first year that he could reach the snack food table, so he was in heaven (until daddy had to pry 6 crackers out of his hand).

Kristin and I really enjoyed the opportunity to spend time with family, as Jack spent the majority of the day tagging along with Cody wherever he went and Graham spent time with his adoring fans (i.e. BB, Grandad, Mumo, Papo, Hayley, etc). I don't think the boys would have planned the day any differently.

As part of our annual tradition, we feasted on our steak and turkey then we went down to look at the animals (a baby calf was the highlight this year). At the end of the day, Randy took the boys on a tractor ride that they really seemed to relish.

All in all, I don't know that the Biggs family has ever felt more thankful:

- Kristin and I have a wonderfully strong marriage.
- We have amazing kids.
- We have the world's greatest family.
- We have a church home that is more than we could have ever asked for.
- Lastly, we have a God who is good and merciful. Thanksgiving, for us, marks the beginning of the holiday season, so we always get a full month to really reflect on the gift of Christ. This year, we have truly been blessed and we are more thankful than ever!

"I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union."

- President Abraham Lincoln (first Thanksgiving proclamation)