Jet Puffed Marshmallows Roasting on a Gas Fireplace

Jackfrost staying far away......Yule tide carols being sung through an IPOD...Being silly. But yes, John and I roasted those little tiny marshmallows in our gas fireplace tonight. They were pretty yummy but now my stomach isn't feeling all that well.

I went to go turn the Christmas tree lights off and when I walked into the room I could smell the aroma of the tree. With the weather in the 40's, and the smell of the tree, I am just so ready for Christmas this year.

Blogging about Blogs

I just dig the internet! It's so awesome that I can communicate with family and friends living all around the country. The internet can't replace hearing a voice on the telephone or getting a hug by being there in person but when you have people you love scattered about the country, the internet is the best. Just being able to share our lives and our adoption journey on a daily basis is such a comfort for me. Instead of making many phone calls and updating our many loved ones, they can just log onto our website and our blog.

The other great thing about blogs is that we can read about other peoples lives. I have two blogs that I am just addicted to right now. The first one is called Waiting for Sophie. This one is a blog about the journey of one family to their daughter in Sophie. I have followed their blog since they went to China and picked her up. I love watching this little girl grow. Their story gives me some hope when we are going through some difficult times in our adoption.

I also love the Ali Edwards blog. I love scrapbooking and doing paper-arts. Ali is an extremely talented scrapper and her writing and her art is very inspiring.

Anyway, I just wanted to share how grateful I am for blogs and websites! I hope you are enjoying ours!

Too Much To Do & Other Christmas Musings

There are dishes piled high in the sink, empty ornament boxes scattered throughout the house and a load of laundry that needs to be done; and yet I sit here in front of the computer because I think it's more important to tell you about our Christmas decorating. I guess the dishes and the clothes won't go anywhere, but I am about to lose the animals amongst the holiday decorations debriet.

Since it was rainy on Saturday and I was still feeling pretty under the weather with this cold I have, we decided to do our decorating on Sunday. This is our first Christmas in our new home and we are super excited! We are hoping that next Christmas we will have a little one to celebrate with.

Every year we have a themed tree. Although last year we didn't do any decorating because we thought we were going to be going to Tennessee for Christmas. Instead, I had to work a firefighter funeral, so we had to stay home. I am determined to go all out this year. Back to the theme...this year we decided on a Texas theme since my parents and aunt and uncle will be here. We wanted to give them a good ol' down home Texas Christmas.

We ran all over kingdom come to find a tree. Our usual spot had a terrible selection and our second choice was super expensive. We ended up battling the mall crowds and headed over to Lowes Hardware. They had an awesome selection and even better prices. I think we have found a new 'usual' spot to buy a tree from now on.

John got the lights on the house and I got the tree up and decorated and the wreath made. Afterwards we posed for pictures in our cowboy hats. Here are some pictures of our adventure. I hope you like them!

Back to the Blogger for Journaling

I noticed that on our website journal, when I add pictures and text, it takes forever to download the page for some people. Also, I like to have the archiving capabilities, and the comment section with Blogger. So, I am going to move our journal back to Blogger. I plan on keeping our website so that I can add more pictures, keep up our timeline, and run our future adoption fundraiser from there.

If you want to read any of the past posts for November and the past months, click here.