new favs

I decided to share a few of my new favs as far as entertainment go.


Thanks to my friend, Freddy, I started watching "Glee" this fall. It's hilarious and the music is very, very good. It's not coming back on till April, thanks to American Idol, so you can catch up on the first 13 episodes before it returns.



I have both Glee soundtracks (yes, even though it's only through half of it's first season there are 2 soundtracks) but really like the 2nd one the best. It's got covers of Cyndi Lauper, Barbara Streisand, and Def Leopard-quite a mix, just to name a few!






I just finished the 3rd "Anne" book. I loved reading when I was growing up but I guess I just missed them along the way. I have enjoyed finally reading these! Karen has the movies which she keeps telling me are great so I'll be watching those soon.





Last week we headed to the movies and saw Leap Year. I loved it! It's just a fun romantic comedy with Amy Adams (who I think is great). We have seen some other movies this winter like Avatar, Up in the Air and When in Rome.

So behind!

I know, I know! I haven't updated my blog in forever. It's not that we haven't been doing things or I don't have things to say it's just... no idea. I do know that I don't have pics to share because I had to trade my laptops again.
Steve and I have been enjoying winter so far. We took a quick trip to Branson, MO right after Christmas that was GREAT! One day I'll post pictures. We are looking onward to visiting Hawaii in late July.
Going to basketball games has kept us busy which is good since that's my favorite sport. January 29, 2010 will mark the 2 year post LID waiting period. I get asked all the time "how much longer" which I don't mind, I just wish I knew :) I am hopeful that things will speed up a little and we won't have to wait 2 more years. I'm looking forward to doing some shopping to celebrate our LID this year :)
Hope all is well, if you have suggestions for Hawaii I'm all ears!

It's beginning to look...

... a lot like Christmas!
I haven't blogged in awhile but thought I would share our Christmas lights with you. We have really enjoyed getting to decorate our new house this year. Although pictures didn't really turn out as well as I wanted to you get the idea. I hope everyone is having a great, great Christmas season!!

It's the most wonderful time...

...of the YEAR!! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving spent with Steve's family in Amarillo. We drove up Wednesday and had a great few days to catch up and enjoy some family time. Even though we were away from home we made our annual trek out to the stores for Black Friday. We got some great deals and getting up at 4am was worth it :) We left before the snow that fell today and Steve was disappointed, oh well here's hoping for some snow at some point this year.

We came back to Waco to put up the last few touches on our Christmas decorations. We have the front decked out and all 3 Christmas trees up. We listened to our favorite Christmas CDs on the way back which was wonderful. My favs this year are Chris Tomlin and Selah. There are many others that will get some play time in the next few weeks. 3 weeks of school before the Christmas break and I'm sure they will fly by!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

21 Months

The picture is of Emily's room. As you can see it's pretty empty now. She has lots of stuffed animals and books already, that's the teacher in me~ she must have books! I have visions of our little girl in her nursery someday with pink stripes and ladybugs everywhere. It may not be as soon as we want but it will be here sometime. The current referrals had a 44 month waiting period. Some say it will get longer, some say shorter. Only the CCAA knows since they are the ones in control of all the adoptions. So we wait and find lots of things to keep up busy! Fall has been great so far and it seems we've had something besides work going on every day. I'm anxious for cooler weather since that heralds the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.

Great State Fair of Texas

We took advantage of Steve having a Friday off for BU's Fall Break and headed up to the State Fair. This is an annual tradition for us and we enjoy getting to experience all that the state fair has to offer including yummy food (fried of course!), fun animal shows, shopping, and the show at Music Hall. This year Karen and Anna went with us and we enjoyed showing Anna, who is from Germany, around the fair.

One of our favorite shows the bird show. It's always fun to see.

This year we were there for the rabbit judging. This little one is appropriately called a "lion head" rabbit.

Although we didn't try it the big winner in food was Fried Butter ( I don't think so!). There was always a long line to try some out. We did enjoy a corny dog and funnel cake.

Bill Geist, CBS reporter, was there and enjoying some of the same events we did.

We LOVED the fair show this year, Mary Poppins. Steve and I saw the original production in London and thought the US tour was even better!

Big Tex

Karen and Anna

And at the end of the day this is how we felt... full, happy and tired!