I'll Be Home for Christmas - Just Please Have Snow

It is hard to believe Christmas is almost here - less than a week away! This year has flown by and God has blessed us greatly! This has been a year of growing in the Lord, celebrating our first year of marriage, enjoying the blessings of friendships God has given us and MUCH more! Tomorrow Jeremy and I will head to Missouri to be with family over the Christmas holiday. We are anxious to spend time with his grandparents and brother and sister-in-law. We are also looking forward to seeing my family - I can hardly wait to hold that sweet nephew of mine! We are so blessed to be able to spend this time with family and friends. I am hoping for a little bit of snow while we are there - at least a little dusting to wake up to would be nice. There will fun times of looking at Christmas lights, eating good food, watching movies, going to eat at Porky's - a GREAT BBQ Pork restaurant and much more! The fun times of holiday traditions! We would appreciate your prayers for safe travel.

While away, we will try to keep up on blogs, etc. We look forward to hearing how the holidays are going for everyone! Have a very Merry Christmas - you are in our prayers! May the love of Christ be yours this Christmas!

Jeff Davis Pie - My Favorite Pie!

In my last post, I talked about my "Jeff Davis Pie" and how it turned out like Grandma's pie - - - - well, the truth is that Jeff Davis Pie is my favorite pie! Each trip back to Missouri, I request my grandma to make one (and of course she does). It is similar to a custard pie, but definitely better! I am going to have to make another one and introduce my California friends to "Jeff Davis Pie." I have no clue where the name came from - I simply know I love it! One year at a family gathering, my cousin (who was much younger at the time) could not remember "Jeff Davis" and referred to it as "Jack Davis" - so now the family joke is, "Are you going to make a Jack Davis Pie?" My cousin Aaron and I have a hard time sharing this pie. Sooooooooooo next time there is a get together, I am going to have to volunteer to make pie - just so everyone can at least try it. I think Christine did get a piece of it Thanksgiving night - - - and I think she enjoyed it.

Pictured above are the pies that we made on Thanksgiving: Pumpkin, Jeff Davis and Chocolate.

Can't wait to share the joy of this pie with my readers :)

Oh Christmas Tree

Well, I am finally taking time to post - yea! Maybe it is the fact that I know tomorrow is only a "half-day" of school and then BREAK - I think I am already feeling like I have "free-time."

My parents were recently here for Thanksgiving - what a GREAT blessing over the holiday! I am so thankful for the opportunity God gave us to spend together! We had a great time and enjoyed many fun activities. I can now say that I know how to make a full Thanksgiving dinner. I did the turkey and with mom's help - everything else that goes with dinner. I was especially proud of my Jeff Davis pie - turned out like Grandmas - yea! It was so much fun to learn from mom how to do all the Thanksgiving dinner things! We had a great meal and enjoyed company with friends later!

It was also fun to go with the fellowship group and cut down a tree - it was great fun going out, finding the right one, cutting it down and then coming home to decorate! I am so thankful to have had mom here to help make the house look great! She did a fabulous job! The tree looks great! We will look forward to cutting down a tree next year too! Fun times!

It was a wonderful Thanksgiving and we have been on the go non-stop this December. We are looking forward to some time with Jeremy's family and my family in the coming weeks. God is so good!

Missing the Fun

Well, I have not posted in a while, but wanted everyone to know that I have been reading your blogs and wanting to comment, but for all who have switched to Beta, we (those who can't switch yet) can't comment on your blogs for some reason - very sad to me. I read them daily and have comments, but for some reason I can't comment - I can on those who are not Beta - so I am not sure this Beta switch is a good thing. Any thoughts on how to help this problem would be appreciated - - - - - I feel sad :(

Know that I am faithfully reading and very sad that I won't be able to participate in JCrew's song game tomorrow - like I said, if you have any wisdom on this, I would appreciate it!