It's official!

2/18/09

I checked the mail the other day to find a package slip from Wheaton.  We were so excited to find out that it was Currey's first diploma!  I made him take pictures because I was so excited. So here he is with the first one....


He has worked really hard in school and we are thrilled that he is so close to completing this season of life.  In just 3 short months he will be walking the stage.  Time has flown by.  We are anxious to see what the next phase of life holds for us.

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A New Hairdo

2/18/09

Currey and I have decided that the way I deal with life changes is by chopping of my hair.  I've always been willing to let go of lots of my hair (Smithee and Kaki, I'm sure you remember the mushroom 'do in 8th grade!)  As soon as we came home from our honeymoon I cut my hair off and the last time I quit my job I did the same.  So here it is......  


So what you may ask prompted this change?  I've resign from my current job.  And the scary part is that I don't have another.  Things at work have gotten worse and it's been impacting my health again.  I started talking with Currey and his suggestion was to quit.  I thought about it some more and came back to Currey and again he advised me to quit.  We talked and prayed and decided that I would resign.  We decided that my health was more important and I was becoming so burned out that I knew I was not benefitting the kids.  Another counselor is leaving so if I wanted my kids to be equally divided with the best staff so I decided it was time for me to go as well.  We know that God is faithful and we know that he always provides.  I gave a month's notice and I'm almost 2 weeks in.  It is the scariest decision that I have made up until this point in life.  I have an interview tomorrow so we are hopeful that it pans out.  If not we know that there is something better waiting for me.  I'll keep you posted and would love your prayers.  

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Feed My Starving Children

2/16/09


We enjoyed an evening out with several people from our church and small group at an agency called Feed My Starving Children.  It was an unbelievable experience where we packed bags of food that will be shipped all over the world to feed starving children.  

You can check out more about it here.  It was really cool and we look forward to going back again.  Hope you are all having a great week!

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Where We've Been








2/14/09

So I've been a major blog slacker recently.  Life has been incredibly crazy but we've been doing lots of entertaining since returning home.  I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

We celebrated Danny's Birthday with wonderful cupcakes and lots of friends from Small Group.







And as always there was lots of Mario Cart on the Wii.





We had an Iron Chef night with 2 of my coworkers.  We got a cookbook and both picked an appetizer and entree to try.  We spent an evening cooking and eating.  We enjoyed it so much that we are planning another one for March with even more friends.

 Nancy and Griselda





Our kitchen doesn't hold too many people so I chopped at the kitchen table.



We also enjoyed the Super Bowl with our precious small group



It's been a busy month since we returned home but we have loved getting to spend so much time with our sweet friends. 

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Still Here

1/28/09


It's been awhile since my last post.  I still have a couple to do from Texas but just have not had much free time to post.  So here is a random one until I can get time to do something more substantial.  

I am always looking for ways to save money.  As we get closer to officially beginning our adoption journey each cent we can save gets us one step closer.  While we were home my mom told me about a website called couponmom.com.  You sign up for weekly emails and it sends coupons as well as the circular from the grocery store that you choose each week.  It's great for meal planning as you can look at coupons and what's on sell.  I love the coupons because they are for a few things that I actually buy.  (I have been known to buy random stuff to try because I have a coupon which makes me end up spending more.)  I also love it because it's free so if I can't use any of them I've haven't lost anything.

Another great site that I have found is moneysavingmom.com.  I found it through a friend's blog and I am obsessed.  I completed a survey this morning for a one year subscription to Martha Stewart Living FREE!  They update several times a day and it is very overwhelming as they show how to combine store specials with coupons to get items for free!  I'm amazed at the time they spend figuring all this stuff out but some of the deals are unbelievable!  But there are lots of great things if you weed through.  I also got a coupon for $1 oatmeal at Jamba Juice.  Can't beat a $1 breakfast!  I've really enjoyed some of the posts and I've only been on for 2 days.  Yeah for saving money! 

Hopefully life will slow down soon and I'll post a few more things about what's going on around here!

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Christmas Part 2

1/5/08

Christmas Day

It was a really busy day and we were loved on immensely by all of our family.  We were greatly blessed and received such thoughtful and generous gifts.  We started at my parents house on Christmas Morning.  We always start with our stockings and I got this cute Texas memento.

Jeffrey and Currey got electric drills and matching shave kits.



Notice that they sit together when we open gifts.  I love that they are so close and get along so well.  They make me laugh!

We then headed to Mim and Gramps to do Christmas with Currey's Dad's family.  I love celebrating there with Currey's younger cousins.  They are getting older but Bree still gets so excited about the gifts and being a helper who passes everything out.  I love it!

There were more matching gifts...


Caley, Currey, Johnathan and Farrell

We then headed to celebrate with Currey's mom's family.   Always a treat!  We always have such sweet conversation.  And while opening gifts we shared several great laughs! 

Caley and her Boyfriend John 


Roger showing Kori how to work her camera


One of Roger's Unique wrapping jobs.

It was such a sweet day of spending time with family.  We enjoyed lots of laughter, received lots of hugs and ate tons of yummy treats.  We made lots of sweet memories and soaked up each moment with our families.  It was a very Merry Christmas!


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Christmas Part 1

1/4/09

I realize that Christmas has already come and gone but I still want to write about our trip to Texas.  As always the road trip was an adventure!  It took us 3 extra hours to get to Joplin due to the snow and ice.  It was a stressful trip!  Add in 2 dogs confined to a small space...we were glad to get to Joplin.  On Christmas Eve we headed to Amarillo.  Thankfully the dogs slept a lot of the day.


We dropped the dog's at my parents and grabbed some lunch at Taco Villa.  An Amarillo treat!  We then headed to Currey's grandma's then on to his great grandma's.  I love getting to experience family traditions with Currey's family.  We got to see lots of extended family that we had not seen in a couple of years. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures.  We were a little sleep deprived!

We then went back to my parents and had dessert and coffee with the Bob, Margie, Mal and Andrew.  Sarah and Jared even came by for a few minutes.  

It was such a treat to spend time with them as we had not seen Mal and Andrew since their wedding a year and a half ago.  As always my mom took advantage of us being together and had us take lots of pictures.  

We headed to the 11 pm candlelight service with my parents, Jeffrey, my grandparents, The Schroeders and Mal and Andrew.  We went home and headed straight to bed.  Christmas was a fun filled day and will get it's own post in the near future!

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