FAILURE!!

we got home from work the other day .. and our new fence didn't stop Roscoe. He was waiting for us when we got home. what are we going to do??

we rebuilt our fence

well. we first built our picket fence to keep daisy in the back half of our back yard. then we got snowball, who could fit through the pickets, so we put chicken wire up. then we got roscoe who decided he could climb the fence -- hopefully we have fixed it enough for them to ALL stay in the back.

new doggie in the house!

meet roscoe!
he's a 1 yr old mini husky. he looks a lot like Daisy, don't you think??

womens retreat 2009

well, a little over a week ago I went on a women's retreat with our church. it was awesome! i have never been on a retreat, and i must say i was very impressed. the hotel/conference center we stayed at was a part of Southestern Baptist Seminary and it was amazing! they took very good care of me and the other 90 or so women that were there. Our speaker was also great! I definitely learned a lot to take home with me from them and also our breakout sessions. The scripture we focused on was Matthew 11:28-30 "finding rest." i certainly came out of that retreat feeling well rested. It was definitely not physically b/c i don't think i got more than 5 hrs a sleep each night -- what do you expect from a group of women?? we like to chat/play games. :) it was spiritually. and I will continue to pray that i keep the conviction that i felt during that weekend to keep me going in the right direction.

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.