Thankful Lists 2011

JARED
1. Bainbridge Island
2. Emma
3. surviving for 15 years
4. Eve (because of her, there are girls)
5. opportunity to go to Turkey (5 years later and it's still a huge deal)
6. Burts Bees lip chap
7. AT&T
8. milk
9. pre-calculus (seriously!? Who is this kid?)
10. water out of the fridge (as in the automatic dispenser in the door)
11. MiO
12. tower of Babel
13. cars
14. tongues
15. Torah
16. blankets
17. a warm home
18. communication devices
19. online school websites (this was a day when he forgot to write down his homework, so he was able to look it up online)
20. Ian (his soccer coach the past 3 years)
21. my driver's permit
22. Adana
23. Cranneys (our friends from Turkey)
24. the Northwest

MICAH
1. Girls (Geesh.)
2. Half days (early dismissal from school)
3. Jared
4. water
5. soccer
6. temple
7. Ben (his friend)
8. friends
9. roast beef
10. music
11. soldiers
12. grape juice
13. technology
14. Turkey
15. turkey
16. Advent calendars
17. Facebook
18. Casa Rojas Express (our favorite restaurant on the island)
19. Footie pjs (yes, he still wears them)
20. Juanitas (our favorite tortilla chips!)
21. bacon
22. grape juice (dang, a repeat)
23. chocolate
24. lollipops

EMMA
1. Baby Torah
2. Jared
3. Adana
4. friends
5. soccer
6. humor
7. you (she wanted whoever read this to know she was thankful for him/her)
8. grandparents
9. surgery (my mom had emergency surgery this day, and thankfully she was fine)
10. technology
11. creativity
12. Crussneys (combination of our friend's, the Cranneys, and ourselves)
13. pigs
14. Mom
15. Baba
16. calendars
17. Thomas Edison
18. fanciness
19. tissues
20. salsa (to go with Juanita's - see Micah's #20)
21. guacamole (ditto)
22. Turkey
23. turkey
24. Thanksgiving

ADANA
1. Jesus
2. Torah
3. Mommy & Baba
4. church
5. Abi
6. orange marigolds
7. Trista (Nathan's awesome receptionist)
8. people that don't have food ("so that we can be nice to them and share ours")
9. when Torah is silly
10. Mary & Joseph
11. Evelyn (a friend from school)
12. snow
13. bacon (she actually doesn't like bacon, but she's thankful for it because lots of other people really like it)
14. Heavenly Father
15. Santa Claus
16. Christmas
17. sevi (means "love" in Turkish; also the nickname of her friend, Savannah)
18. paint
19. presents
20. Thanksgiving
21. princesses
22. Cranneys
23. Micah
24. Emma, Clara & Emily (two of the Cranney girls)