༄｡°🍂 A Gallery…Gathering Up the Memories ♡⃛📷

It is a lovely time of the year! I can feel the festivity as we look forward to Thanksgiving and go right into Advent! 🍂☕️🦃♡ɞ˚

Every year is different…some years we can hardly get our act together for the season, other years we are preparing in our hearts in a more religious way, and still other years we are getting ready on a more practical level so our whole family can have a blessed season.

And then there are years when it is super hard…when we have lost a loved one or are missing someone who would usually be going to Midnight Mass with us and opening gifts with us. This year we will greatly miss Angelo! And Vin and Gin will not have their two older boys at home because both will be married! One got married three weeks ago, and the other is getting married in two weeks!

But each year is an opportunity to take part in the liturgical loveliness of the season as well as prepare our hearts…whether they are mourning a loss, filled with excitement, more contemplative…or a mixture of all three!

Here is a gallery of some of our doings….

Our town hosted the Shakespeare Festival once again, and it was such a fun event! Here are a few photos from the festivities…

We have been able to visit Angelo once at the seminary, and he was able to come home for his nephew’s wedding. What a blessing that the seminary is close enough to make these visits possible! Father VanderPutten was visiting from Nigeria, too!

We had the Bow Shoot and the turnout was great! The money raised will be given to needy families at Christmas time! This year Mike and Jeanette had it at their land.

Tony, Vin and Gin’s second oldest son got married to a lovely young lady, Kerrigan. The official pictures aren’t out yet but this person snagged one when they went to take pictures at the Capitol Building.

Of course, the All Saints’ Day Party is one that is looked forward to by all the kids!

A sweet new grandbaby on the scene! Little Angelo Gabriel! David and Margy are happy their little bundle of joy has arrived! We have six more grandbabies due…some literally around the corner! We are blessed with a Baby Boom!

And just some random pictures:

Traditions become so much a part of what our children will remember as “home”. They will carry these customs with them as they strike out on their own. It will fill their own lives with a depth and richness that only family, home and traditions can bring.

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