Wishful Wednesday

It's December 1st which means I have been thinking of all the things I would love for Christmas if I had no budget = ). As I have been browsing the internet I've stumbled upon these beauties:

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Things I love about this: its purple, its huge, its coach, and it would look absolutely beautiful on my shoulder

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What's not to love about an Ipad? I could read books on it and it would look lovely in my coach purse.

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Because everyone needs rainboots and if you are going to have them, you might as well have some amazing ones from Burberry, right?

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I think baking would take on a more heavenly experience if I had one of these.

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One day I would love for one of our families to say no presents this year, we are going to New York City. The tree, the ice skating, the broadway, the snow, the today show - New York screams at me daily to come and visit it. Someday New York, someday. And if I had all these things, I could bake some wonderful yummies to take on the trip and then I could wear my wonderful rainboots while carrying my beautiful purse while using my Ipad to look up things to do while in NYC. Yep that would be perfection.

What do you secretly wish for?

ICE!!

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year and while the whole family was here, we decided we would go to the ICE exhibit at the Gaylord. Jason and I have never been and we thought it would be fun to take the whole family. This year the theme was the Peanuts characters. I have always loved them - I mean how could you not love Charlie Brown and the whole gang? We had so much fun and we made great memories with the fam!

Waiting in line to go into the exhibit. Doesn't it look so Christmas-y!?!

All decked out ready to go to ICE!

Getting advice from Lucy!!! She is probably one of my favorites. I especially liked it when she would lean on Shroeder's piano to get him to pay attention to her.

Good ol' Charlie Brown

They had the nativity scene at the very end of the exhibit which I was kind of surprised by but all the same excited

It was a great way to start off the Christmas season. I love the holidays!

I will praise you in this storm

The past two weeks for Jason and me have been some of the hardest weeks we've ever had to face as a married couple. The pain we have had to deal with has been unbearable at times but we know that God is sovereign and that He does good. We know that through this trial that God will bring us through it, and we will come out stronger people together with a better picture of God's mercy and unending love for us. I came across a song the other day that I have heard so many times before but it struck a chord with me once again. I hope that you can listen to this song and if you are going through anything to find comfort in it as I have. God never promised a perfect or fair life but he did promise to never leave us or forsake us. May his name forever be praised!

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. Habukkuk 3:17-19

Shop Training

I don't know why this commercial makes me laugh, but I think it might be because sadly this probably will be me and my family the day after Thanksgiving. We are those people that get up before the sun to go shopping even if we don't need anything specifically. Better wear my good running shoes that morning =)

Technology hates me

I know that I have been gone for a while and I have a good reasons....I won't get in to all of them today but I will tell you about one of them.

Here it goes......

My hard drive crashed.

Yep, and when I mean crashed I mean I LOST EVERYTHING!! I lost all my pictures - including my Spain pictures from 5 years ago. I lost all my address contacts so if you don't get your Christmas card til late or not at all - don't take offense. I lost certain recipes that I hadn't made hard copies for yet - and they were yummy.

It was a sad sad sad day.

And I know they have these things called external hard drives and I'm sure you are saying "Elizabeth, why didn't you back up all your information on of those?" and I will tell you BECAUSE I'M A MORON!! Don't worry I have one of those now but it won't bring me back all the wonderful things that I lost on my old hard drive.

So this is one of the reasons I haven't blogged in awhile. I've been mad at my computer and we had a fallen out. But I'm happy to say that we have reconciled and things are getting back to normal. It's great to be back!

Weekend update with Elizabeth

This weekend was pretty low key but I did get to do these things:

• Went to the dentist - no cavities for me!!
• I got to eat at Raising Canes for lunch. Mmm-good! That place has the most amazing sauce! I crave it ALL THE TIME!!! In fact, I want it now...
• I went to Half Price books and bought a nerdy book
• I got to watch both Tech and the Cowboys lose this weekend! =) (Go and ahead and tell me what I just said is blasphemous but that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!)
• Finally caught up watching episodes of The Vampire Diaries - my guilty pleasure

Hope your weekend was great!!

Rewind

So the last two weekends have been very busy..and because I am sure no one wants to read paragraphs of what we did I will tell you what we did in 50 words or less:

• We went to a birthday party for our little friend Zane:

• I had lunch with Dianna who moved back from OK!
• We played Top Golf with our home group
• I helped host a baby shower - I forgot to take pictures of it =)
• We bought an air purifier (lame I know)