I'm blessed.

We had a lovely Christmas.
I had to work 6am to 2pm, so we woke up at 4:30 to do our presents! That is one devoted husband there.
He is so cute and loves Christmas so much, it makes it so fun!
He picks out the cutest things for me.
He got me A WII! :D, another wii remote, seasons of Arrested Development and Flight of the Conchords, The Office Board game, Skip Bo, a hello kitty thermos, a pink snuggie!, a book light, a cute lil blue watch and a glove compartment survival kit. - You can never be too safe. :], and a few other lil things. I loved every single thing.


I got him A workbench/area, electric hammer, camo camelpak, putting hole game, Johnny Cash CD, Chuck Norris fact CD, a book, Nike work out pants, moccasin house shoes, some grilling tongs, and a few other lil things.

After I got off work we took all our presents over to my parents and exchanged gifts there.
We had a good time.
My momma and daddy got me this adorable thing, Its on our mantle and I love it.

And this!

And a wonderful cd and water bottle and lots of hello kitty cuteness!

My sis got me this cutie.


Then finished off the night playing Wii with my brother and sister at our house. :]

Leaving for Dallas today after I get off work, to have Christmas with Adams family. Cant wait to see everyone. Too much time passes in between visits. Our time together is super special though.
Love my family.

I am so THANKFUL

For my sweet Saviour and his amazing salvation and grace.
It amazes me and always will that God sent his son to die for me and all my sins. He knew I wouldn't always be grateful. He knew I would choose other things over Him regularly. He knew Id never be good enough... but He still loved me enough to send His son.
And I'm not good enough, I do choose other things over him, I do just overlook how amazing His salvation is way too often, but I sure do love Him. That is part of the reason his grace is so amazing. We don't deserve it, and never will. We can never do anything to deserve it. No matter how hard we work, we cant attain salvation that way. The only way is through Jesus, and its so easy and wonderful. Just accepting it. Thats all it requires. Every single person has sinned and turned away from God, chose other things.. but his grace is what makes us alright with God. It takes all our sins away. Makes us clean before Him. He is our covering, he intercedes on our behalf.
I don't know about you, but that excites me!
He talks to God for me and about me! He is on my side. He always loves me. He desires me. He DELIGHTS in me.

- Spend some time with Him and let him tell you how He feels about you. It'll blow you away.

Adam and I went to our church's Christmas Eve service last night. It was really good, but one verse hit me in particular.
* Psalms 16:11 You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy.

Wow. He has told us where to find joy. Isn't that what so many of us are looking for?? Joy, happiness, what to do with our life??
It is Him. Everything we need is Him.
So encouraging to know all we have to do is be with Him. Spend time in His word and talk to Him, and he will give us extreme joy.
I've never felt joy like I have when I'm with Him. When I hear Him speak and He whispers to me, it is the most amazing thing I've ever experienced. I'm not just saying that.. It really is amazing. That God of the universe cares enough to whisper sweet sweet words to me!
EXTREME JOY.

I pray you all experience Jesus and his love, grace, SALVATION, and Joy!
It's what this life is all about and today especially.
My saviour was born.
I am so thankful.

Happy Christmas!!

Christmas Eve morning!!

Woke up to 2ft of snow on the ground/our vehicles this morning at 5am!

My husband informed me last night if it was snowy or icy he would be driving me to work. My front tires have no tread and don't drive on normal conditions well, much less on crazy icy ridiculous roads.

--30 mins later the windshield is mostly cleared.

I walk out and realize lil flats probably weren't the best decision of my life. Adam picked me up and carried me to the truck, I tried to open the door while he was holding me, but I could not make it budge. I swear it was frozen shut, anyways it was humorous so we are both laughing and Adam is trying to swing my body to add some force.

Doesn't work. So Adam sets me down, my feet sink into the snow and it all seeps into my flats. Then Adam opens the door with one pinky. I loosened it. ;]
We made pretty good time to work and didn't slide at all, thanks to 4 wheel drive and weights in the back of the truck.

Princess just would not have made it, poor thing.

I was getting out of the truck and Adam insisted on carrying me to the door of the PD.

So sweet!!!

I love my husband more than life.

I also love snow, and Christmas, and Christmas Eve!!

My brother is home! <3

My brother is home 2 weeks for Christmas!!
I am so so happy he is here again. :]
We have had a full night of laughing.
Seriously, playing mad libs acting like 2 year olds just placing body parts and functions in the spaces... it seriously makes them so hilarious. Reminds me of the old days... Crude mad libs = obnoxious laughter.

Then we took about 1,000 horrible pictures of ourselves making the WORST possible faces we could make. SERIOUSLY, they are hideous. I'm not even allowed to post them they are so bad.
We look like we have special needs. We probably do have special needs, they just never told us.

Now the boys are watching football, and well.. I'm here. Listening to their conversation while typing. How can you talk about football for 2 hours? I don't understand half of what they say...
Baseball is another story. Cant wait for baseball season again!!

All day today I have been singing "Mary did you know a child was born?" I was informed those aren't the words... and Mary wouldn't care if just any ol child was born.. haha.

Christmas is in 4 days, almost 3!
:D

I basically just have stocking stuffers left to get. I always have such a hard time with stockings, because they are my favorite.
I want to post what I've already got for stockings for my hubby, but he reads this BECAUSE HE IS FREAKIN' ADORABLE. (I love you sweet baby)

Yeah, I'm cheesy. And super in love with my husband. So, sue me.
But please don't, because it's Christmas and that's not very Christmasy.
Like you would have a case anyways.
Okayyy I'm done rambling.

Wait one more thing, Yesterday my sis came over after I got off at 2 and we wrapped presents and watched movies and Arrested Development, cooked dinner for my husband's dinner break, and then I fell asleep.. hardcore...
I woke up because one of my poor neglected puppies pounced on the door, Shot straight up and said "Where's my husband?!"
Then my sister replied, "He's at work."
Then I said, "Am I married??"

haha I was so worn out.

I took a nap after Adam went to work today at 2:30 and woke up at 3:30. I looked around the house for 10 minutes for Adam. I seriously could not figure out why he was not home, I was looking under the beds and in closets.. like we were playing Hide and Seek. Finally, I kinda snapped out of the trance and realized he was at work... and that I'm probably insane. Or have special needs. Probably a little bit of both. ;]

My sister and I took about 200 pictures in photobooth too. We got some funny ones.. I may have to post some of those later.

Hope you all are having a wonderful week before Christmas!!
:D

P.S. We drove by Bealls today and The E was out on the sign. hahaha.
Yes, I'm a child. :]

Crazy

Today I have consumed..

Orange Spice Tea
2 Clementine organges
&
Orange tic tacs - my fave.


Now that I think about it, its not all that weird. But it seemed weird in my head a few mins ago.


Anyways, Yesterday was wonderful. Went shopping with my sis, and we laughed. a lot.
CHU TALKIN' TO ME?? :D



Then Adam did not attend work, so we got to hang out for the evening. Went to the Saturday service at church, it was wonderful. Did a little Christmas shopping, and ate at Casa Ole. Yummm.

Then I fell asleep on his shoulder on the couch. Perfect.

pssssfffshhhhhhfffff

Adam's friend is getting married in January, and his bachelor party was last night. Adam attended grudgingly. :] They just went to a bar and got a table and hung out for a few hours. He hates bars, but was a good friend. :] Well the other guys went to Hooters at 7, but Adam took me to get coffee and look at Christmas lights at Ransom Canyon during that time. :D What a great man.
I work day shift at my job, so my hours are 6am to 2pm. I was absolutely fine going to sleep at 9, while he went to support his friend.

He got home around 1 or so and climbed into bed.
One thing that is disgusting about bars is the insane amount of smoke in the room. I'm allergic to smoke and I cant take much of it at all.
So after a few mins I was nauseous from the smell. So Adam says, "Yeah, its gross.. Ill go spray something on me." And goes to the bathroom.
All I hear is ..

psshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
or pssssfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff .. whatever that spraying noise is, typed out.. not sure.. anyhow let's just pretend thats it...
pssffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

psffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

( I giggle from the bed, and tell him that is quite enough!)

psffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

(seriously, that's enough sweetheart!)

pssssssssssfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

Adam then chokes on the cloud of body spray for a few minutes and turns the light on to show me how smoky the bathroom looked.

He sprayed every inch of his body, even his feet.
Sweet gesture.
Too much body spray mixed with too much smoke is no good either.
haha.

It only made me wanna puke for a few minutes, then I passed out again.

P.S. CAN NOT BELIEVE CHRISTMAS IS ONLY 6 DAYS AWAY!!!! Holy moly. I have to finish all my shopping this week... well because, there is no other time.
The last saturday before Christmas, oh Sweet Jesus, help me.



P.S.S - Playing online scrabble while at work with my sister really is probably the best thing ever. Love my job. And my sweet sweet adorable Sister!

...

I miss so many parts of my life, but thats what happens when time passes, right?

I will always miss working at LPD even though I claimed to hate it. I miss working with all of the awesome friends I made there, and my sweet husband who I met there. I miss talking to him via messages all day. (illegal messages that everyone sends, but only some get punished for ;] ) I miss the crazy crazy ridiculous people/calls. I miss it being me vs the man. - Okay that one not so much. That was tiring. The man is way too strong/evil/prevalent to overcome. for now.

I miss living with Joanna and staying up late laughing till our tummies and cheeks were killing us. I miss not making any sense at all, but to each other making complete sense. I miss our market street/Starbucks dates. I miss seeing each other, even if it was just in passing every single day. I miss our Abilene trip. I miss high fiving in the car with the inside light still on. ;]

- Go back further than that..
I miss working at a cigar shop. I miss how laid back and easy and carefree life was. I miss not being in school and not having to worry about one single thing. I miss Erin.
During this time in my life, I was not happy, and never thought I'd say I miss that.. but time has passed. So naturally, I miss it.

-Rewind some more..
I miss working at Firewater. I miss working with some of my best friends. I miss "having" to taste all the wine.

I DO NOT miss that hair however. ;]

- I miss Relay and Sasha and passing notes. I miss discovering some of the best music ever. I miss hearing songs that played a huge part in my life, for the very first time.


- Just a little further..
I miss working at Mardel with all my girls. We had so much fun together. It was my first job, and I so loved it.. for about 2 months. Then I put up with it for another year and half. But I had friends to hate it with me. ;]

- I miss 10th grade. I miss walking to lunch with Kalah every day. I miss getting my first car, and being so excited to drive everywhere! I miss getting Starbucks every night and going to Chas-a-guy park with Kalah and just talking. For hours. I miss Kalahs mom coming in the room trying to quiet us, but it making matters worse, by looking like a gopher. haha.

- I miss my grandmother and how sweet she was. There was nothing I didn't love about her. I miss her living across the street and being able to visit and spend the night often.

- I miss my skin being a clean canvas, and my mom not being upset. I miss not having acne. I miss my natural hair. I miss not having to worry about birth control. I miss not having responsibility. I miss living at home. I miss Tyler living here. I miss our hasting runs. I miss him like crazy.

I miss my old youth group and how involved and needed I felt. I miss being so excited to go every Wed/Thur/Sun. I miss Freshfire, and all of the super close friends I made there. I miss Thursday night Bible Study at Starbucks. I miss intense worship. Worship that brings me to my face.

So see, I MISS EVERYTHING.
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
Okay, I just love that quote, that is entirely un-true. I had a lot of hurts, but looking back, everything was beautiful.
With all of that said, and I'm sure no one is still reading this, Its more me just saying whats on my mind this morning...
I love my life NOW. I love everything about it, and none of this would be possible without missing all of that.
I'd take this life gladly any day.
I love living with my best friend. I love our date nights. I love our church now. I love my job and how easy and painless it's been. I love that I'm back in school and doing well.

It is insane how time passes so quickly. Thinking back on all of that, it really doesn't seem that long ago.
Okay, done rambling.
Just reminiscent and somewhat sad this morning, but joyful at the same time.

This is what took up 3 hours of my yesterday. I love it. Another session and she will be finished.

- Sorry for the horrible picture. But the script reads "I delight in You My Treasure My Bride"