Beautiful Winter's Day

Oh wonderful day. I am sitting in the sun shining through the window drinking some raspberry green tea making my rag rug with my two babies at my feet, all the while my God station on Pandora composed of mainly my beloved Matthew, Tenth Avenue North, and Toby is playing. :D. Does it get any better? For winter, I think not. And what's even better is that I don't even need to be listening to Pandora to listen to God music now that Christmas is over and Life 97.3 is back to normal.

If everything stays according to plan we'll be moving into our new house in less than a month!!! Ahhhh. We're so excited. Though our place now is a mess, especially after Christmas. Speaking of which, we survived going home for Christmas! We were a bit weary, but we made it. All in all it wasn't so bad. It was nice to see everyone again.... though I didn't get enough time with my mommy! Never do nowadays :(. Luckily when we got back home on Sunday I had a parking ticket waiting for me on my car. Boy, do I love Duluth police! And guess what, they haven't plowed any of the streets I've seen yet so that's good they gave me that ticket and got the job done.

I don't really have anything else to inform people of. Even though maybe most people don't even care to be informed of what they read on here coughBENHARTLEYcough. But those that do care, thanks for reading ;)I leave you with a song and pictures.

House

So..... we've officially had our offer accepted on a house! So pending an inspection that I don't think will be a problem, and depending on how fast the bank can get us our mortgage we will be moving on or before January 26th!! Ahhhhhh! How crazy. I can't believe we're going to have our very own house :)

And in the spring we're getting a fence put in so the dogs can pretend they're wild dogs; at least until they come to the fence and realize they can't go any further. Matt got me the Square Foot Gardening book and I think I will be able to put it to good use this spring/summer. The yard at the new house isn't the biggest, but hopefully I can utilize vertical gardening. I've never done it before, so it'll be an adventure at least. We can't wait to move! We've got big plans and I'm excited to see them come together.

What else? Well, it's almost Christmas and it sounds like we're going to be able to see plenty of family on both sides! That's good because I'm sure both families are anxious to meet us since we actually haven't really been to each other's holidays yet. Not to mention, I haven't seen my dad's side of the family since I can't really even remember when! So I'm excited to be able to see them on Christmas day.

I suppose that's all that's going on with our lives now. So a few more weeks of nothing too fun and then lots of busy-ness with moving and putting a new home together! Should be fun with the two dogs going crazy all over the place. And with being busy with more Charlie time; though I won't complain about that one bit!

Later, gators!

Being Crafty

Charlie's dad is sick today so his mom is staying home and taking care of both of them. Which means... more time for me to do my crafts! Well.... I'm only making a blanket right now. BUT I'm going to start making a rag rug and I'm suuuper duper excited! It's going to be the best thing ever. And then if we get the house we're looking at buying now it'll go beautifully with the wooden floors.

I also need to clean up around here because between my yarn explosion and Smiler taking out EVERY toy and anything she thinks should be a toy, our house is a mess. Today would be a great day for dehydrating my bananas too but they're not ripe yet. Perhaps they can dry tomorrow while I stocking shop for my lovely lover and get my hair cut and hopefully get my ring cleaned :)

Yesterday I rechecked the Sonshine schedule and they put up some artists and I'm soooo going because Toby Mac and Tenth Avenue North are going to be there! Now if only Matthew West would sign on for it......

Song of the Day: Aaron Shust "Matchless"

Pictures

So I just have two pictures to share with y'all. One, of my adorable puppy in the sweater I knitted for her. I had knitted it probably two weeks before getting her in anticipation and yesterday was the first day she wore it.(Don't worry, she was only in it for five minutes and probably won't be in it for much longer than that ever). She didn't mind wearing it at all and I think she would have been totally fine wearing it all day.

Next, I recently began stumbling again because I discovered that you can customize it a whole lot more than last time. Still a huge time suck, but at least I get meal plan ideas and THIS picture :)

Just try and tell me that's not the most amazing picture you've ever seen!

Joyful Noise

Sooo.... from what I can clearly see now, my most amazing friend from high school, Jessica, informed me today about the Joyful Noise Family Fest in Blaine and Brandon Heath is going to be there this year!!!! Along with Casting Crowns. And so we're definitely going! And I can't waaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiitttt! It's going to be simply amazing. And upon thinking and investigating I'm super hoping Toby Mac will be at Sonshine again this year because just the week before he'll be at LifeFest in Wisconsin so it'll only be proper if he hops on over here, right? Right.

Brandon Heath 'Song of the Day'

I Just Have To Share This Video

Happy Happy HAPPY!

HI! So I do believe I'll get to be watching Charlie 3-4 days a week til probably June! Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!! It would just make my life. Or at least next six months :) Hopefully I can make it work with my other job so I can stay there for a bit when I'm not watching Charlie. Annnnd Charlie is gonna start eating solid foods at the end of this month (I can't believe it's already December!) so he's gonna be even more exciting; even if that means I'm gonna have more messy shirts.

I'm just so happy. And farm class tonight! I think I'll go even though I'm super scared I'm gonna crash in die in the snow and ice. Hopefully not. Speaking of class though, I gotta go read for tonight!

Buh bye y'all!

PS- a couple new pictures in the My Dogs set on flickr, though I guess now since it's over 200 I think it's deleting/hiding my wedding pictures. Oh well, I have cute dogs :) flickr.com/foggyacres