At Home in the Mountains

The big, sadistic run party took place on Sunday, December 9th, 2012. That's right. For some reason, back at the end of the summer, I let my husband talk me into voluntarily torturing myself for 26.2 miles to complete my first marathon ever. We got up at 4:30 in the morning, ate a quick breakfast, gathered our running gear, and dropped Maddy off for a day of fun with friends at 5:30a.m. Talk about some amazing friends to be willing to get up at 5:30a.m. to take care of Maddy so we could go kill ourselves. We arrived at the American Airlines center right on schedule to drop Tammy off to catch the bus for her relay. They changed the course from Fair Park to the Dallas Convention Center this year, so we were worried about parking but it all went great. We exited the freeway without spending more than about 5 minutes in traffic and came off practically into a parking lot right in front of the convention center. We went into the Convention Center to do our pre-race rituals and to

My life during finals week:

 A few pictures from Thanksgiving:  We put our tree up the last day of November. Maddy got to open her advent calendar and an ornament from Granna the night we put the tree up. I love putting the tree up. 70-80% of our ornaments are homemade and 90% have a special significance. There is the snowman cowboy we bought in Sedona on our honeymoon, there are the ornaments made by Aaron's great grandmother at the turn of the last century (1900). There are ornaments his mom made him when he was growing up, and the ornaments from my first Christmas. I still have an ice cream cone that I made with a silk Christmas ball ornament in 5th grade. The whole class chose a red ornament to make their ice cream cone except me and one other kid. We chose yellow. There are the ornaments I've made Maddy each Christmas and the ornaments Maddy's grandmothers have given her. I was pretty crushed this year because Maddy broke a sand dollar ornament to bits that was from my Sunday school t

Just a quick update on a couple of things that happened this week: 1. We got an offer on our house in Ft. Collins! The inspection has to be done by the 13th. We are super excited that we have an offer and praying the inspection goes well and we can get the place sold. 2. Our home study is finally, officially, really complete and a physical copy is in our hands. We can now proceed to the next step with the adoption of getting all the paperwork together to submitted to the country. 3. We got to spend Thanksgiving with lots of different family members. I am very thankful for a great family. I'm blessed to have a great husband and a sweet daughter. On top of that I have amazing parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, a beautiful niece and another nephew on the way. Even with all of that, I also have an amazing church family to be thankful for.