My Husband Rocks Fridays!!!

My husband rocks this Friday because he is working like a crazy person and he did the dishes for me!!

Egg Nog

Okay now I have officially had it and can I just say YUM-O!!!

My Husband Rocks This Friday...

Just because he does...........and he is spending all day with us on Saturday, Jayden and I dont ever get that so its a big treat.

Christmas Survey

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot chocolate.......I actually have never had egg nog

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa? who's that?

3. Colored lights on house/tree or white lights? white. always white.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? no, but that's a good idea. maybe next year.

5. When do you put your decorations up? the day after Thanksgiving (my favorite day of the year)

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? dressing, some people call it stuffing.

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? probably the decorations.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think deep down, I always knew.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? yes

10. How do you decorate your tree? bulbs, lights and ornaments

11. Snow! Love it or dread it? never seen it really...... i've seen the little bit of sleet we get here in Texas, that's it.

12. Can you ice skate? yes. love it.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I love all gifts.

14. What is the most important thing about the holidays for you? being with family and seeing Jayden open gifts.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? my husbands pumpkin roll

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? decorating the tree and the house the day after Thanksgiving and not a day later, Black Friday shopping, opening a gift Christmas Eve, and day after Christmas shopping. If you cant tell gifts is my love language.

17. What tops your Christmas tree? a star

18. Which do you prefer-giving or receiving? i love both.

19. What is your favorite Christmas song? I cant choose, I love them all.

20. Candy Canes- yuck or yum? eh.

21. What do you want for Christmas? I have a whole list if you really are interested????

22. Do you attend an annual Christmas party? usually at the church and my grandparents Christmas party.

23. Do you dress up on Christmas or wear PJs? PJs during family breakfast and presents. Then we will dress up before family dinner.

24. Do you own a Santa hat? no

25. Who do you normally spend Christmas with? Just Jonathan and Jayden and then this year we are starting the tradition of a Christmas Dinner that family is invited to.

I love Christmas!!!!!!!! :-)

.....but I love The Bachelor

So, our church has decided to do a challenge for the month of January to close our minds off to all secular media and focus more on family and our relationship with God. The rules are this:

1. No TV
2. No Music unless it is Christian
3. No Internet (unless used for work purposes)
4. 30 minute family devotional each day
5. Journal your experience

Okay well for most people, one or two of these will be hard for them and the others not so hard. Other than the Christian music thing because that's all I pretty much listen to anyways, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE WILL BE HARD FOR ME!!!!

30 minutes of a family devotional will be hard because we have never been able to even do 5 minutes. It might help that all the small groups have to start January 1 doing that bible in a year so I will have tons to read which will hopefully help with the 30 min. devotional thing.

I don't even know where to begin with the no TV rule. I don't feel that I am obsessed with the TV but when a particular show that I like is in season I don't want to miss an episode. I just got finished with Dancing With The Stars and I did not miss an episode.

I have been so excited because about 3 weeks ago, I found out that the all new season of The Bachelor kicks off January 5th. I am totally obsessed with this show no matter who the contestants are but this one is every so important because they pick Jason, the jilted bachelor from last seasons Bachelorette to be The Bachelor. Then about a week later I get the news of the January Challenge at church. One of the main things Pastor Phil said was that its all about doing what works for you. If you cant do one of the rules don't feel like you cant do any of the other challenges, just give it your best. Great, my out to do the challenge except for Wednesdays from 6-8 and still feel good about myself. Or so I thought.....

So last Monday I was getting very excited about The Bachelor because I had just seen a commercial about it and I was on my way to work so I figured I would call my best friend Danica and let her know that we were on for watching it together every week(we love gabbing about the show) and literally as I almost pushed the speed dial to call her a song came on. Now normally a song could have come on and I would have not even paid attention but this particular song is one of my favorites now so when given the chance to hear it I will usually stop what I am doing and turn it up to listen and sing along. Naturally I know the words to the song and what the song is about but little did I know that as I was singing a song that I had sung thousands of times before it would convict me in a whole new way.

I know that wordy blogs can sometimes be annoying but I really felt like this was a story I wanted to share and I could give you bits and pieces of the lyrics but I want to share the whole song with you:

Empty Me
by American Idol Contestant Chris Sligh

I've had just enough of the spotlight when it burns bright
to see how it gets in the blood.
and I've tasted my share of the sweet life and the wild ride
and found a little is not quite enough.
i know how i can stray
and how fast my heart could change.

empty me of the selfishness inside
every vain ambition and the poison of my pride
and any foolish thing my heart holds to
lord empty me of me so i can be filled with you.

I've seen just enough of the quick buys of the best lies
to know how prodigals can be drawn away.
i know how i can stray
and how fast my heart could change.

empty me of the selfishness inside
every vain ambition and the poison of my pride
and any foolish thing my heart holds to
lord empty me of me so i can be filled with you.

cause everything is a lesser thing
compared to you, compared to you.
cause everything is a lesser thing
compared to you so why surrender all?

empty me of the selfishness inside
every vain ambition and the poison of my pride

empty me of the selfishness inside
every vain ambition and the poison of my pride
and any foolish thing my heart holds to
lord empty me of me so i can be
lord empty me of me so i can be filled with you.
oh, filled with you.
empty me.

That is it right there, its like BINGO, I get it. "and any foolish thing my heart holds to Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you". The Bachelor is foolish as is anything on TV really. Foolishly, it is something my heart holds to and does not want to let go of. Do I want to be filled with The Bachelor or filled with God?? Easy answer for sure!! Why is it an easy answer?? Because "everything is a lesser thing compared to you".

I don't think any song could be a more perfect theme song for this challenge!! I am going to need serious prayer and accountability for the month of January. To be able to keep the commitment that I so badly do want to keep. I am going to keep my Journal online because its easier or me that on notepad. So I will get to share with you in my journey along the way. Thanks to everyone for listening to me ramble on and on.

Any comments??????

My Husband Rocks Fridays!!!

My husband rocks today and everyday for so many reasons. I am celebrating how much he rocks today because he is going to help me finish putting up the lights and getting our Christmas Tree this year even though it seems almost pointless now because we are so late doing this year. We might not have Christmas stuff up yet but we are enjoying our laziness together!!

Our Thanksgiving Holiday!!

Well, we went to Georgia for Thanksgiving and I must say that driving through the night is no easy task but it was well worth it to have Jayden asleep 11 hours out of a 16 hour trip. We left Monday night at 10pm and I took the 10pm to 7 am driving shift while Jonathan and Jayden slept in the back and then he took the 7 am to 3 pm shift. We had Thanksgiving with my mom, Joe and all of us girls.

After Thanksgiving dinner we all went out side and took family pictures and that was actually fun this year because we did it in my parents back yard instead of in a studio.


Then after all the picture taking we loaded up in the car and went to our annual Stone Mountain Christmas in Stone Mountain Georgia. It was a blast!! Just cold enough but not miserably cold. The Polar Express 4-D was really cool and one of the highlights for sure!!



All in all it was a wonderful trip but nothing beats being back home!!! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.