Summer Family Wedding

Visit with Aunt Judy

Nashville Day

A little Christmas Decor peek and my Rhema Word.

Now all we need is our TREE~!

We will be heading to TN for Turkey this year. This will be the 2nd year that Mr. D will be away from our home town for Thanksgiving. He was in TX last year for work. Mr. D has an Aunt that lives in TN so we will be leaving on Wednesday of next week to head out to spend the holiday with her and her family. Most of whom I haven't met. Miss D is looking forward to seeing Aunt Judy again. Last time we saw her Miss D was around 18 months. Aunt Judy gave Miss D a sweet little purple bunny when she was here and we named it Bunny Judy. That little bunny has been a favorite of Miss D and still gets a night or two here and there in bed with her.

I decorated early cause I didn't want to have to do it when we get home from TN.... plus it will be just our little family of 4 over Christmas and I wanted to enjoy my decor as long as possible. This will also be the 1st time that we wake up and actually stay at out own house for Christmas instead of waking up early and doing presents then taking off to a marathon day. Don't get me wrong now.... all y'all that are reading this back home. I would MUCH rather have a marathon day and hug all your necks than not. But I do have to say that I'm looking forward to the quiet day that we will have as a family. Quiet has been the theme around here for the last few months. It is as if we have entered into a season of rest.

Mark 6:31 ³¹Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.

This verse was in my BSF lesson last week and it was my Rhema Word from the Lord as I was reading it. I do feel like we are here in this new town and are making friends... slowly but surely. I'm trying not to rush making friends.. but I do need to start to make more of an effort. It is hard though because I've never really had to do it. Living within a 40 mile radius my whole life I really had a small bubble. Now I'm having to break out and make friends in a place 2500 miles from my bubble. I'm having fun with my little Miss D and Mr. D not having a job yet we are enjoying time as a family too. God has CONTINUED to completely provide for us through unemployment checks that come EVERY week. They aren't much but we are able to live off of them. Thanks be to GOD for His provisions. We are getting rest and enjoying this season as much as we can... because we do know that There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven....

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Big Boy Chair

Look who is sitting in a big boy chair!~

Miss D and her Apple.

Annie Sloody

This is Miss D and her "daughter" Annie Sloody. They got to go for a ride with Mr. D today while he went to gather supplies for his Boar hunting trip this weekend. She didn't want to go with him... she likes to "stay with mommy", but you see I told her that Annie Sloody really needed to get out of the house and see the town that we lived in. So Miss D agreed to go with her out with Daddy. Annie had to get dressed of course. So we went into Miss D's room to see what would fit. This is what we came up with. Isn't she cute. So off they went. Annie and Miss D in the backseat of Daddy's truck to go and run errands.

Ain't she cute.

All trimmed up.

It was time.

Ribs and friends to remember.

We had our 1st non-family members visit from our home state last week. We had a blast with them. We pretty much hung around the house the whole time. We stayed up late and enjoyed conversation and company. We played with my camera taking pictures and cooking yummy dinners. I was at Costco before they came and Miss D begged me to buy ribs. So we enjoyed those after cooking them ALL day. I went out and hit a few garage sales one morning... but couldn't get K up to join me. They were pretty much stuck on west coast time. No biggy... all in all we had a great time. It went by WAY to fast. They had a hairy travel day getting out here with their flight delayed and missing their connection. But they made it here the same day they were suppose to with out having to stay the night in the airport waiting for an early morning flight. Thank YOU JESUS!!

We miss them already but are looking forward to another visitor (my MIL) in December for a week. Good times.

I'm looking forward to getting my Christmas decor out. I can't believe that it is November already. Baby D is doing so well. He is sleeping 14 hours at night. I wake him up to feed him before we head to bed but then he sleeps right on through the night and has been waking around 8am ish. Sometimes he will wake up and talk for a while and then fall back asleep until 10am. He has such BIG legs and is laughing and loving toys right now. The other night I was changing his diaper and he was playing with a toy and he dropped it. He cried like it was the end of the world. I picked up the toy and gave it back to him and he quit crying. Miss D wasn't into toys like he is. He plays with them like he wants to destroy them. Such a boy. We are really enjoying him. He is SUCH a sweet boy. He is so easy to make smile too. He is such a blessing.

Thanks for coming to visit Stewies... we miss you already!