White Christmas

We had a white Christmas in Texas! What fun memories were made, we will never forget Ava's first Christmas and the first white Christmas since 1926! Here is my big family that we spent Christmas eve and Christmas morning with. It was so fun! Sometimes loud and a little chaotic but thats's the way we like it! Lot's of laughing and fun stories. I am so thankful for each of these people I get to call family. I am blessed!

The Nutcracker Ballet

This weekend my sweet husband and I went to see the Nutcracker at Bass Hall! It was wonderful!! There are so many things I love about going to the ballet....getting all dressed up, seeing everyone else all dressed up in holiday attire, the gorgeous Bass Hall and just the idea of going to the ballet is so classy to me. I am one of those fortunate girls, my husband loves stuff like this. His mom trained him well! I don't have to beg him to take me and he doesn't complain and dread going. He wore a suite and I wore a little black dress...ok it wasn't that little..but it was as little of a black dress as I will ever wear.. We left Ava with my Mom and off we went! What a fun evening! I think we might make a tradition of it. Oh and how fun will it be in a couple years when we can take Ava? She will love it I am sure!

We wanta wish you a merry Christmas....

Here is a snapshot of our life the last couple weeks. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving started out by us running (well Ava rode) a 5k, my first one! I was happy to finish but will NOT report my time! Ava is gaining a love for food. She isn't real interested in and would prefer bits of our food over anything that resembles baby food or is fed to her with a spoon. She is crawling all over the place and attempts to stand. She turned 7 months old last week and is my little buddy! We have a blast together during the day and I LOVE the excitement she shows when her Daddy comes home. She is a true joy to us both and we cannot imagine our life without her!

Merry Christmas! Take some time to enjoy those around you and give a little extra love to your family. It's a season to celebrate the gifts God has given us and what greater gift then families to love!

Goin to the chapel...

Yesterday we celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary! What a full 2 years they have been! In the last 2 years I have gotten married, moved to NY, gotten pregnant, moved back to TX, had a baby and am now planning our next local move. I told Jeremy last night, no wonder I am tired!

Thinking back over the last 2 years I cannot imagine it any other way though! I have loved the adventure that we are on together and though at times it has been overwhelming God has taught us both so much. I am more in love today then ever and have a husband who loves me and spoils me in so many ways. How could I ask for more? We have a 6 1/2 month old baby girl who is our world and we both adore her more everyday! Truly, I am blessed!

Here is a walk down memory lane from my wedding day....

I loved everything about my wedding and would do it all the same again! It was such a fun day surrounded by friends and family. I was so blessed to have the wedding of my dreams! Here is to many, many more years to come!

And the winner is.....

The winner of my first giveaway according to random.org is....Darci!!

So fun!! Darci I know those adorable flowers will get put to good use on little Eden! If you will email me your address you 3 bows will be in the mail soon! Thanks for playing along friends and I hope to do more of these soon! Remember you can get your own flowers by visiting Mae's etsy shop.

Giveaway!

I am hosting my first ever giveaway! I am excited to help a friend who is a stay-at-home-mom to get the word out about her adorable hand made items. She has a etsy site here that lists all her fun items.

These would make wonderful Christmas gifts, baby gifts or gifts for yourself! =) Who doesn't want a funky and fun flower to brighten up your fall wardrobe. I have to admit when Mae gave the flowers to use for this giveaway, I was tempted to keep them and say I didn't! I think I may be doing some ordering of my own soon. They are cute, afordable and if you are like me I am always more willing to spend the money to support a Mommy staying home with her baby! Oh and did I mention she does custom orders?

So how do you win these adorable bows you ask? Well check out Mae's etsy site and leave me a comment with which flower is your favorite. If you post a link on your blog or your facebook to my blog then you can leave a second comment telling me you did. This giveaway will stay open till Sunday night at midnight and monday morning I will announce the winner of 3 adorable flowers! Oh and did I tell you that the winner gets a flower for babe, baby and bride!

Ok now, hurry up and get to commenting and shopping!

White House

Before Jeremy and I got married he purchased this adorable white house that needed LOTS of work. His plan to fix it up and us live in, funny how God has a way of changing our plans! We ended up renting the house out and it has been a source of lots of stress for us both but more for him. It has been rented out for the last year but we had talked about selling the house and had put it up for sale by owner in the past and nothing. We put it up with a realtor last Wednesday and on Friday we got an offer for asking price! Needless to say we took it! God is so faithful, we are going to be able to walk away from this house free and clear! We had assumed we were going to take a loss on it, oh we of little faith! Isn't it amazing when God comes through on the things we don't even have the faith to pray for?

Thank you God for your amazing love for us. That your plans are so much better then what we could imagine! And I am SO grateful for that. Forgive me for my lack of faith. May YOU reveive ALL glory for this!