Vacation

So, today is one of two working days that I have left until I will be off for TEN WHOLE DAYS IN A ROW!!!!!! And let me tell you how very ready for a vacation I am! So, I was just going to let you all know that I will not be posting anything for prolly about 2 weeks! BUT in 2 weeks or so, I should, hopefully have a ton of pictures and stories to share with you about our trip.

I'm not sure if I've even mentioned this trip before (sorry, I am so bad about not re-reading my previous posts before posting a new one). So, here's the plan....this Sunday we will leave with Chris' parents to go down to their property in NM for 2 nights. Then, on Tues morn, we'll get up, drive to the Carlsbad Caverns and spend a few hours and then drive to Lubbock to stay the night. Wed, we will go thru Abilene (which I'm esp excited about cuz Chris will get to see where I went to school, and I'll get to see the tons of changes they've made on campus since I last was there a few years ago) and then head east. We're staying right across the Interstate from the new Cowboys Stadium on Wed and Thurs nights and going to the Raider/Cowboy game on Thanksgiving Day (which has been a dream of mine for years now)! Then the in-laws will start their drive back to CO on Fri morn while we stay behind in TX to visit with friends and family. On Fri, we'll be touring the stadium with my older sis and her fam (who I haven't seen in over a year!!!!) and then we're spending some time with dad's side of the fam. I'll be meeting up with at least 2 of my other friends over the weekend, and then we'll be flying back on Monday morn.

I can't tell you how excited I am about this trip AND how the Lord has worked so many blessings into this trip already. As you know, we are VERY LOW on money right now so a vacation seems quite ridiculous! However, we are blessed that Chris' parents are driving and paying for all of the motels along the way; we have a friend that is loaning us her car for when we get to DFW; we're having a free meal with my best friends from HS on Wed night; we're staying with some wonderful friends of ours in Joshua who are GRACIOUS and wonderful hosts; and my dad paid for the tickets for us to fly back so we'd have some extra time with the fam! Isn't it wonderful how He provides, even for a time of relaxation and to be with friends and family???? Thank you, Father!!!!

So, hopefully, I'll have tons of posts and pics coming your way in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, please pray for our safe travel.

Have a BLESSED Thanksgiving holiday! We love and appreciate each one of you!!!!

Weekend

We had a GREAT weekend of waking up without an alarm clock and just relaxing and hanging with friends. Plus it was topped off by a very nice performance by my Cowboys, who are now in sole possession of first place in their division-woooohooooo! :)
We did spend the big bucks to go see The Stepfather at the $2 theater on Sat. It was decent, and honestly it was just so nice to actually get out and spend a tiny bit of money! Course we watched football all weekend and got together with our wonderful small group last night.
This week Chris has a hockey game, and we're hoping to go climbing at our gym that we do not take advantage of enough. And I get to play BUNCO with the girls on Friday night-so fun! Besides that personal stuff, Chris has a couple "meetings" for work stuff and will be sitting down with his mom this week to possibly start working with her in her "moving freight biz" to make some extra cash. That's in italics cuz I still have no idea what EXACTLY it is that she does! :)
Oh and one final and very exciting thing to blog about.....Lord-willing, on Thursday, we will have a full condo of ALL NEW CARPET! It seems as though our fiasco with our silly mgmt/hoa ppl has finally come to an end-whew! Seriously, it seems so silly to think that the Lord would care about something so trivial as carpet, but I have NO DOUBT that this is His doing and an answered prayer straight from Him. Thank you, father for caring about even the little, seemingly silly things in our lives!
I will end with a hilarious pic of our baby girl, posing for the camera!!!! :)
Love you all very much! Have a blessed week!