Brrrr...

Is it wrong to love two men?!?!? Well of course it is...but honestly, LOVE is the only word that can describe how I feel about our friendly CenterPoint worker who knocked on our door last night at 11:30 pm responding to our call about the gas being out. I LOVE THAT GUY!!! How could you not???

Great night for the gas-line to go out...coldest night of the year...snow coming down...our house temperature already dropping degree by degree before our very eyes and the whole neighborhood's gas pressure being touch-and-go!!! Poor Steve was going crazy trying to figure out our furnace...our fireplace...anything that would provide some heat since he knows I am absolutely the biggest baby in the world when it comes to being cold!!! So needless to say, I love you too, honey...you are amazing and truly the only love in my life!!! :)

A big THANK YOU Mr. CenterPoint for all your help...and for not neglecting us after reporting that our gas would be out until the morning. Thank you for coming back and ringing our doorbell once again at midnight to have us try lighting things up again and for climbing up our attic ladder to get heat pumping to our freezing house! :) And most importantly, for being cheerful about it! I can't think of too many people who would be honestly happy to be tromping around in the snow trying to solve an entire sub-division's gas-line mystery on a cold December night! So thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

A Christmas Miracle

Will wonders never cease??? This is what we got to enjoy last night!

We saw a few flakes and bundled up as fast as we could to enjoy our magical winter weather -aka a few snowflakes mixed in with freezing rain! Little did we know it would turn into a real snow and last all night long!

I made Steve go outside with me around midnight to take pictures! And surprise, surprise...this was my favorite shot! I am including a lame one of me that he got while I was in the middle of a crazy pose...just so I can claim that I am fair in my blog picture posting goofiness...equal opportunity...that's what we're all about! :)

And one more...sorry to bore you! But I had to post a picture of our Christmas lights. Yes...we've only done one level...but this is a good start for us since I had to BEG and PLEAD for the lights at all. Steve...while being the most un-scroogey person I know, thinks holiday decorations are ridiculous when put up on a green lawn and a roof-top completely devoid of snow! Okay, so he's not really too anti-lights, and I didn't have to beg too much for those...but those big blow up snowmen or Santa's...that's another story! And to be honest, the night that we did put up our lights...Garrett and I managed to break quite a few bulbs between the two of us...so I need to go buy some replacements anyway before anyone is going to be climbing up on the roof...so really it's my partly my fault that we're only halfway to our full lighting capacity!!! Regardless, maybe it's possible to get our house decorated since we proved last night that a white Christmas just might be possible here in Texas!

Angels among us...

I have a dear sweet friend who lost her little girl yesterday. My heart is aching for them. My faith is strengthened as I watch their family handle such tragedy and heartache with such amazing grace. I thank them for their faith, their eloquence, their kindness and their love that they managed to share with anyone who tried help them during this experience. Whenever I was able to be of any service to this sweet family, I left their home feeling as though I had been in the midst of angels and that I was the one being served...not the other way around as I had intended it. I am grateful for the knowledge I have of our Heavenly Father's plan. I am grateful to know that families can be forever and that this amazing family will be together again. I am grateful to hug my own sweet boys a little tighter and watch them as they grow one day older. I am grateful for the sweet comfort the spirit provides at times such as these when you feel as though you've been turned inside out. I am grateful to be able to pour my heart out in prayer and know, with a surety, that my Father in Heaven hears me. I am grateful to see that faith and knowledge sprout in my young children and I pray that they will hold to that faith with all their might. I am grateful to have known sweet Sarah...she touched our family in a special way with her sweet smile, her love of baby Ethan as she would find him every Sunday and rock his carseat and talk to him, and by her amazing courage and faith through this experience.

Literal Stockings

Well, I guess that's what their name implies!!!

yum

On our way home from school last week, we stopped to feed the ducks at the nearby pond. I brought all the old bread that I'd been saving in the freezer and pantry - since, let's face it...I'd much rather have that space for yummy thanksgiving treats instead of old bread crusts! Who wouldn't, right???

Now looking back at the pictures I took...I noticed that Ethan is eating the bread in almost every picture! Poor boy...the snack we'd had just before leaving the house apparently wasn't cutting it...that old bread was just too appetizing! By the end of the day though...he did get around to sharing his yummy morsels with the ducks! Yeah...we're working on sharing in every aspect right now!

So here's my boy...with his mouth full of tasty bread crumbs!

tagged

Here is our 5th picture in our 5th folder...

Ethan playing with the new ball that he got in his Easter basket...and the pink in the side was a cute friend who came to visit. Just had to explain since you don't see much pink in our house!

Logical Place

The other day, I glanced out my window and saw this...

What better place for a strange man to have a telephone conversation than on my neighbor's roof??? He seriously stayed up there wandering around the roof for 1/2 an hour talking on his cell phone! Must have been some important phone call. And, I really hope he put his call on hold long enough to mend the leak too!