A Big Blessing.....

I forgot to mention in the last post about my new job! Stephen and I spent the summer praying about a way for me to bring some income in without taking me from home too much. We quickly realized after I resigned from my last job when he started with his practice.....that it would be almost impossible to save for adoption #2 without more income coming in. Well, God answered that prayer and blessed me with a part time position with my church.......Highpoint Church. I am really excited about it and the hours are extremely flexible so I don't have to miss a minute of this..............

The latest and greatest.......

It's been awhile since I've updated this blog.....guess we've been a little busy! Here's what's been going on.....

Stephen is taking his boards today so he's been really busy studying lately. We're all glad that it'll be over in a few short hours.....

Stephen has had a cold that has lasted about a month now.....the docs keep telling him that if he can get through his first winter he'll be fine after that. He is still enjoying his job though so that's good.

Friday night we went to a pumpkin carving party with our small group and it was a lot of fun. We carved pumpkins and made smores around the fire.....see pics below

Saturday morning I did Race For the Cure. It was really neat and I will be looking forward to next year. There is so much bad/evil in this world and it was great to see thousands and thousands of people all coming together for a good cause!

Happy Fall Ya'll

We had a great time yesterday going to pick out our pumpkins. The tradition in our family is you each get to pick out one so we left with 3 pumpkins and some pretty purple mums. The man selling the pumpkins fell in love with Caroline so he gave her a little bitty pumpkin of her very own. She carried it around with her the rest of the afternoon!

Girls just wanna have fun!

I met Christina, Jodi, and Lindsay while our husbands were in med school together. I know I could NOT have survived living so far from home, Stephen being best friends with his cadaver, and his non stop studying without these girlfriends! We instantly hit it off and have been such close friends ever since. We all had to move away from each other when our husbands all started residency and that's been tough but we have gotten together every year for a girls trip. This year we went to Temple, TX to Christina's house and we arrived there in TX on the day she turned 30.....it was special getting to spend the day with her on her birthday! We laughed A LOT, went out to eat, shopped, got pedicures, and spent time on the lake. It was a great trip!



(I somehow couldn't delete this photo...I was trying to rotate it! Christina picking up me and Lindsay from the airport....yes, I made her wear a tacky necklace and carry that sign!)


At little "dream" jewelry shopping! I'll take one of these and one of those!


Out to dinner to celebrate Christina's birthday!


A day at the spa....what could be better?!?!


I was in need of the spa after I did this!!

Picture Update

Currently, Caroline's favorite thing to do is sneak into the office
and climb into the chair and type on the computer....she does
manage to pull up itunes and dance a little too!


I decided to let her feed herself pudding the other day. We
started out with the spoon...


but she decided her hands were more fun!!


Caroline and Molly! My dearest friend of all(Shanna) had a
little girl in March just so Caroline could have a best friend
to play with! Wasn't that so kind of her? Just kidding......she
and her hubby thought they were done having babies, they
have 3 boys all in elementary school, hubby had the v surgery,
and along comes Molly!

Where would we be without friends?

Every girl needs a friend like Heather......
You brightened my day yesterday with these beautiful flowers!
Thank you(and Paul too!)

We went out to dinner tonight with my family to Cracker Barrel.....my mom was the queen of "comfort food" whether cooking it or eating it. We thought that was the perfect place to honor mom.....sit and rock while waiting on a table.....drink sweet tea and eat some yummy veggies. We all love you mom!




Me and Care Bear sitting and rockin'


Then she wanted to rock all by herself!


Caroline and her "Brit-Brit" (Brittany)


Yes, that's butter she's eating...after all we were at Cracker Barrel!


Mitch(my brother-in-law)Thressa(sister) Brittany(my niece)
Andrew(nephew) Carolne, me, and Stephen