We can’t wait till our DVD arrives in the mail! Congratulations Burns Family Studios for finally getting her done. That must be a great feeling!
(I don’t know why the audio isn’t working – sorry.)
Um, er, ahem… If you visit the link above, you’ll see a quote at the top of the page that looks remarkably similar to what I said almost a full year ago…….
- Walter
After a delicious, home-cooked Thanksgiving meal with Dad yesterday, we went to a friends’ house to spend the evening. Since Valerie and Evan’s company left directly after a midday dinner and over at Providence Glen Dad had to leave for work around the same time, we sort of ‘combined forces’ and made a memorable evening together. 
Laughter filled the air and joy filled our hearts as we played games, knitted, snacked, battled with airsoft guns, and even performed a few silly skits. We had so much fun! What’s Thanksgiving with family and friends without a little fun?
An Explanation For Pictures 12 – 14: It’s commonly known in our family that Nate, while trying to escape sudden death in a savage game of “wall ball”, literally ran head on into a brick wall! Even though his arm was sprained we never failed to see the humor in it all, and last night Nate and Evan ‘reenacted’ that scene for us in slow motion (they even talked in slow motion!).
!["What if I tied a string to this end, and..." :-)](http://blog.thewilli.com/wp-content/gallery/thanksgiving-fun/008.jpg ""What if I tied a string to this end, and..." :-)")
![Nate and Evan's slow motion skit: "hey there!" "hey"](http://blog.thewilli.com/wp-content/gallery/thanksgiving-fun/012.jpg "Nate and Evan's slow motion skit: "hey there!" "hey"")
!["Watch out for the wall!" "What wall?"](http://blog.thewilli.com/wp-content/gallery/thanksgiving-fun/013.jpg ""Watch out for the wall!" "What wall?"")
!["Oooh, that wall"](http://blog.thewilli.com/wp-content/gallery/thanksgiving-fun/014.jpg ""Oooh, that wall"")
![A parting shot of Nate and Evan doing "ninja" :-)](http://blog.thewilli.com/wp-content/gallery/thanksgiving-fun/017.jpg "A parting shot of Nate and Evan doing "ninja" :-)")
I hope everyone had fun this Thanksgiving!
-Kasie
Thanks for voting for the Chronicles of the Willi in the Homeschool Blog awards! We rang in with a respectable 2nd place finish.
Our congratulations to the winner of our category, Feelin’ Feminine! In all honesty, they deserved to win. (And with over double our readership, it’s no wonder that they did!) 
A few days ago, our Great Aunt Gladys (Dad’s Aunt) passed away. We have fond memories of visiting her in South Carolina as a “layover” on our Florida vacations. Although we’ll no longer be able to do that on this earth, we look forward to visiting her again in eternity! (Perhaps she’ll have a pecan tree in heaven!)
We’re attending the funeral this Saturday. Please pray for the family that remains, especially our Grandpa and Grandma.
Last night on “Thanksgiving Eve” we were blessed to spend some time with friends.
Part of our Thanksgiving week, time spent with family.
Last night we finished the instrumentation for all 12 tracks of our new album! Huzzah! Next up – vocals….
Last week Mom, Angie and I gathered with several ladies from church at our friend’s house for breakfast and fellowship – “Kathy” was to teach us all how to knit dishcloths.
I already know the basics of knitting (as do Mom and Angie), and I enjoyed very much making my dishcloth, but the best part was the fellowship we shared that morning. It was so neat to be in the company of like-minded, godly sisters in the Lord! Our “girl talk” was edifying, encouraging, lively and pure – it all reminded me of Titus 2.
God blessed our time together so much, we’re going to do it again! Once a month or so we’ll get together and learn many other ‘lost arts’ in our culture today. After we get knitting down, we’ll move on to crochet, tatting, cross-stitching, and other useful crafts.
Here are some pictures from our morning together;
!["Three on a Couch" I love this picture!](http://blog.thewilli.com/wp-content/gallery/knitting/012.jpg ""Three on a Couch" I love this picture!")
I loved our knitting party – I can’t wait until our next meeting!
-Kasie
P.S. Many thanks to Valerie for providing all the pictures!
…here’s something to change your mind.
This is the third snowfall we’ve seen in Tennessee this Fall, though it’s the first time it’s accumulated enough to be an official ‘dusting’.
It’s not much, but it’s still snow! Also the temperature does become very cold here at times, especially with the windshield factor we get atop our hill (I’m enjoying the change in weather after a seemingly long summer). Two days in a row now I’ve had to hack ice out of the horses’ watering trough and let the hose thaw out before filling it up.
So… just in case you thought we lived in the sunny south, think again. It is possible to snow in East Tennessee. It’s still snowing as I write this, so we may get a bit more… We’ll have to wait and see!
-Kasie
I’ve been reading Spurgeon’s “Pictures of Pilgrim’s Progress” lately, and really enjoying it! Charles Spurgeon was excellent at putting the abstract or allegorical into practical terms.
Here’s a little section of it for you all to enjoy and meditate on. The context is “Help”, the mysterious character in the story who pulled Pilgrim out of the Slough of Despond.
I wish I could put my Master’s message into words that would burn their way into your hearts. I desire that every church member may be a worker for Christ. We want no drones in this hive; and we want all bees, and no wasps. The most useless persons are generally the most quarrelsome; and those who are the most happy and peaceable, are usually those who are doing most for Christ.
We are not saved by working, but by grace; but, because we are saved, we desire to be the instruments of bring others to Jesus. I would stir you all up to help in this good work; old men, young men, brethren and sisters, according to your gifts and experience, help. I wish that each one of you would feel, “I cannot do much, but I can help; I cannot preach, but I can help; I cannot pray in public, but I can help; I cannot give much money away, but I can help; I cannot officiate as an elder or deacon, but I can help; I cannot shine as a ‘bright particular star’, but I can help; I cannot stand alone to serve my Master, but I can help.”
An old Puritan once preached a very singular sermon; there were only two words in the text, and they were, “and Bartholomew”. The reason he took the text was that, in the Gospel, Bartholomew’s name is never mentioned alone; he is always associated with one of the other apostles. He is never the principle actor, but always second. Let this be your feeling; that, if you cannot do all yourself, you will help to do what you can.
