Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!! WOOO HOOOOO!!!! I love everything about it, the music, the decorations, the gift buying and wrapping and giving!! It truly is a magical time of year. I do realize one important thing about myself this year. For my family (which currently consists of Keith and I LOL) I want to make sure that the true meaning of Christmas--Jesus' Birth--is the center of our holiday. I don't want that to ever get buried under the glow and magic of the season!

I've started my Christmas shopping, but I'm not done yet. But hey, I've done better than I usually have by this time of year!

Hopefully soon I'll be posting some pics of our family trip we took last weekend to Gatlinburg, fun stuff!!!

Poor, dried up and shriveled, neglected blog...

Don't you just *love* it when life steps in the way of all the fun stuff you wanna do?? LOL My poor little excuse of a blog has been so neglected and dejected. Courtney, you've inspired me to get in touch with it again......more to come!!

She's growing up!

Me and the sister, lol.

Haley and "Jimmy" aka, Secret Asian Man, LOL.

Linel, Bailee, Haley. Pals of several years.
My baby sister graduated high school last Friday night, with the grace and beauty of woman. It was kinda weird, seeing her all grown up! I wish her all the best as she blazes her own trail through life.

Lord, I need patience. Amen.

Well Keith tore out the old shower in the house so that we could replace it with the new one. Only it turns out that there is significant moisture damage to the floor. AAAHHHHHH!!!! So the bathroom project is growing, and my patience is waning, LOL. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that we have to be out of our apartment by April 30. This means all our stuff is moving to the house, and we are going to be going to my inlaws to stay until the bathroom is finished. I don't mind staying with my inlaws at all, I love them to death, but its not very convenient for our everyday routine, LOL. Anyway, here are some pictures of what my bathroom looks like at the moment. Heaven help me, lol.

WOO HOOOOOO

WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY HOMEOWNERS!!!! Praise the Lord we finally closed on our house today at 2pm!!! It doesn't even seem real yet, I don't think!! More updates and hopefully pictures to come later....God Bless!

House Update again

Today is Monday, and we still haven't closed. *sigh* The selling realtor still hadn't taken care of the termite treatment like they were supposed to do. (The house had some live termites in the landscaping timbers that had to be treated, but we're going to take out all those timbers once we close.) So now we're just waiting once again for yet another closing date. It should be this week. At least it better be, LOL.

House Update!!!

Isn't it funny how in the middle of victory and answered prayers how quickly we can become discouraged? We were originally set to close on our house on April 8th. Man we were excited, gung-ho, ready! As it turned out, our loan wasn't quite ready yet. Our mortgage broker was working on getting us a "Welcome Home" grant from the government that would be a down payment on our house. Even when we should have viewed that as the blessing from God that it was, we instantly became frustrated and discouraged. (And when I say "we" I mean mostly "me" LOL, Keith is not so quick to emotional outbursts as me.) We didn't know how long it would take the grant money to come in, and we had already turned in our 30 day notice here on the apartment. Now I am so happy to say that the money has come in, and we are set to close on our very first home on Monday, April 14!! God is so good to us. We are so thankful for this home that He has given us and for blessing us with this government grant as a down payment on it. Now the stressful part begins---packing and moving!!!! ;)