favorite time of the year ...

growing up (and still today) people ask you what is your favorite time of the year? i used to say winter b/c i love the snow. but after living in texas for as long as i have, if i ever went to where it was snowing i'm not sure i would like it. or maybe i would love it and never want to go home. :) anyway .. since daniel i bought our house and have starting planting trees, flowers, cati, etc. I will say i have to change my answer to SPRING! its so much fun going out and looking at all the new growth on our plants! i will post pictures later b/c we do already have trees bloomin and flowers sprouting! its so cool. it definately makes you sit back for a moment and think how awesome God is for designing things this way!

babies, babies everywhere!!

no, i'm not pregnant, :) But it seems like everywhere i look, another friend is pregnant! Don't get me wrong, i'm very happy for them. Daniel and i aren't thinking about having kids, but if we were starting to think about it, i wouldn't want to right now b/c everyone else is!! is that wrong? I don't like doing what everyone else is doing, and right now, it seems like everyone else is having a baby! I guess it just makes me feel old too, to know that we are old enough now to have kids. part of me still just wants to be a selfish person. The other part still just wants to get to know my husband better. the first few years of our marriage was rough, and so its like we are starting over.
I just don't want to wait too long b/c i don't want to be pregnant by myself. I would like at least one other person to be pregnant with me! If all these couples are having one now, they probably will be out for another year or two, right? if they even want more than 1 kid?? some of the couples are on their 2nd child .. maybe they won't want any more after that. It is nice to know that i will have lots of people to help me out whenever i do get pregnant b/c they will have the experience, right?
man ... there are going to be a lot of new babies by the years end!

4 day work week

well, daniel and i started a 4 day work week. meaning we work 40 hrs per week in 4 days instead of 5. So far it has made for a long week, but it's so worth it to have fridays off!!
I work 730am-6pm mon-thurs off on friday
Daniel works 715am-6pm mon, wed-friday . he is off on tues.
it does stink that we have different days off, but daniel's changes every month, mine is stuck for 6 months.
we are still working out the kinks. but so far so good.

murder mystery party.

ok. so this was back on nov 4, and i'm a little late posting pics. but here are some from our sunday school classes murder mystery party. and thanks to becca for setting it all up!

bailout

i just want to say that the bailout is a stupid idea. It is not going to help anything. Why are we saving those companies that made stupid decisions?? they are the ones that made loans that they knew at some point their lenders wouldn't be able to pay back (hello variable rate loans). plus they probably gave a lot of loans to those who lied on the application and didn't have enough money to begin with. Its the banks fault, and i don't think we should bail them out. Plus how is the government going to give out 700 billion dollars when they themselves are in trillions of dollars in debt?? and how is this going to make the banks learn?? this isn't going to solve ANY of our problems. how about you divide that 700 billion among the american people?? we deserve it more than the banks!! I would rather no one be able to get a loan, then get a loan that they can't pay back. It would help the american people think twice about if they really need a particular item. if you don't have the money for it, do you really need it???

current yard pics

with getting hardly any rain this summer, we sure got some about 2 weeks ago. here is the growth of our plants since the rain (a before and after pics --





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new class

Daniel and I have signed up for Sacred Marriage, a bible study class up at church. so far its been awesome. we'll keep you posted on the progress ..