Tuesday, December 30, 2008

God's Perfect Timing

See this house? That's gonna be our house at the end of January! Ya that's right we bought a house!

It hasn't quite sunk in yet... I mean we just started looking a couple of weeks ago! It's all fallen into place perfectly so far. We still have surveys and home inspections to go through but it all looks good.

It's a 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house w/ 2 car garage. It's more house than we know what to do with.... I mean we don't even have enough furniture for the blessed dang thang! (notice I say that with total affection)

As a result of this whirlwind week or two we have to return to Fort Worth from Kerrville earlier than planned. But it worked out great because Greg has the rest of the week off so that we are able to be around for the inspection.

Just a few months ago we (not God) were set dead against purchasing a home at the time. We wanted to rent because it seemed to be the better option at the time. Of course God had other plans. He usually does. So we close on the house the DAY BEFORE our lease is up on our apartment! Thank you Jesus! Any of you that have been involved in apartment leases of any kind know how hard it is to get out of them, we were very blessed that God provided this house for us at exactly the same time that our lease was ending.

To top it all off I accepted a job offer this week (actually today). Yes, me! I am now officially a work from home mom with a home based business! It's doing transcription. Anyways, more on that later. I'm a busy gal!

More pictures to come soon of the new digs! Thanks for all the prayers that I know were sent our way!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Merry Christmas

















Luke 2:15-20
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

1 John 5:11
And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.



Let's remember what Christmas is all about, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! He blesses my socks off every day and I pray he does the same for all of our loved ones. Merry Christmas and God Bless!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Sheesh!



Leave me alone! Ugh... now she has 2 cameras to torture me with!








Alright.... now I'm mad!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Christmas lights

Last night we took Adom to see the Christmas lights in Arlington. There is a neighborhood that sections off one side of the street just for people that are driving through to see the lights! It was amazing... I've never seen a neighborhood that did as much as this did. It took us a good hour or more just to see them all. Adom was sooo excited. His new favorite word is "Awesome!"












* note: These pictures were taken with my new totally rad Canon Powershot XS110IS camera. Greg and I both got our Christmas presents from each other early this year so that we can use them at Christmas.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Adom's girlfriend

Adoms favorite person by far is our best friends Ryan and Aprils daughter Brook.

AKA Brookie.

He even announced to Greg, "Daddy, Brookie girlfriend!"

We didn't teach him that.

While we were in Kerrville we got to spend a lot of time with them.

It was wonderful.

Although I must say, my son needs more guy friends.

All of his friends are little girls, who love High School Musical and dress him up and do all sorts of girly stuff with him.

The only thing he's been doing since we got home?

Playing with dinosaurs, tractors, machines, fire hats and swords(thanks Uncle Ryan) I think he desperately craved "boy stuff".

Simpsons, we love ya'll and miss you terribly!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

I'm Hip....




I'm Cool....

















I'm with it...

Monday, December 8, 2008

technical difficulties

More like mental difficulties...!

I can't figure out what I want my blog to look like right now so please be patient with me while I work on making it look as good as I want it to look!

Ugh...

Christmas Tag

I was tagged my my SIL Amanda...



1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Gift bags I hate wrapping!
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial because of allergies
3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving preferably or when we get a chance.
4. When do you take the tree down? Until Greg begs me to take it down.
5. Do you like eggnog? Yes but I always end up regretting it... it's so rich!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I got a beautiful babydoll carriage when I was around 7 or 8( I wonder whatever happened to that)
7. Hardest person to buy for? My Dad
8. Easiest person to buy for? Adom and Verna
9. Do you have a nativity scene? yes my Dad got us the Willow Tree collection I LOVE it!
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I'm gonna try to mail some this year :)
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't know
12.Favorite Christmas Movie? Of course theres Christmas Story... You'll shoot your eye out! And Miracle on 34th Street.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I tell myself I'm gonna do shopping early every year but I always end up shopping at the last minute...
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? probably but nothing big
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Fried Turkey and my moms turkey dressing
16. Lights on the tree? white and multicolored
17. Favorite Christmas song? Jingle Bell Rock among many...
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? home on Christmas morning then go see family
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Uh, Rudolph, Blitzen, Conor.....
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? star! Adom helped put it on this year!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? My parents always let me open 1 on Christmas Eve then the rest on Christmas morning.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? People going nuts at malls!
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I have little wooden carved piano ornament that my Grandfather carved, its very special.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? My Uncle always brought over Ribeye Steaks! Yum!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A digital camera that I can carry in my purse :)

Merry Christmas!

I tag Lisa & Marissa!

Tardiness...


I apologize for my tardiness. Adom and I were in Kerrville for the last 2 weeks! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got to visit with all of our friends and family. I will be posting pictures of our trip throughout the next couple of days, even though I didn't get a whole lot of them. Oops.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

As soon as we got home on Saturday I started decorating the apartment for Christmas. Then last night we had our friends Dustin and Jessica over for apple cider (thanks kelli!) and Christmas tree decorating! Pictures to come soon.



Me around 2 yrs old



I truly love this time of year. This is the first year that Adom is really enjoying Christmas as well. It's so neat to see and hear him when he sees Christmas lights. He says, "Wow, Mommy look!" He even got to help Daddy put the star on top of the Christmas tree last night. I can't believe he's so big so soon.



Adom Christmas 07'


When I was little teachers would always tell us to write about our favorite holiday ( I swear I wrote 20 of these kinds of papers). Everyone would write about Christmas and although I did and do love Christmas I always wrote about the 4th of July being my favorite. There was always a big get together with my mom's family in Leakey and I just loved being with all my Aunt's Uncle's and cousins. I guess being an only child, anything where lots of people got together was special to me.



Adom with GiGi and PopPop Christmas 06'
This years Christmas will be a little different, we will be spending it here in Fort Worth. Just the 3 of us. I don't mind though. I'm going to attempt to make a small yet very fancy Christmas dinner and I will be able to totally focus on my little family. I also want to find a book for Adom that tells the story of Jesus' birth to read to him on Christmas Eve. If you have any suggestions send them my way.


Me around 3 yrs old


These next couple of months are going to be very busy. Going to visit friends, amusment parks, Christmas, New years in Kerrville, and thats just December. We'll be packing in January. Our lease is up here at the apartment January 30th so please be praying that we will be able to find the perfect house (with a nice yard!) by then.

Happy Holidays!