S-U-C-C-E-S-S

This, my friends, is how you spell SUCCESS:

Just a little pecan surprise with some corn bread in the background for the homemade stuffing I made.  Ohhhhh yeah, both we're completed before 8:00 a.m.  Remember this?  And this?  I'm just getting better and better [at making one dish... ha!].  

Here are some more shots of our morning...

 We had our Thanksgiving routine... eat pecan surprise, watch the parade and read the newspaper..... Ahhhhh good times!

 Then we headed down to Indy and spent the afternoon with my family.  

Mr. Trouble never sat still.

 We all came back up to Northern Indiana for a few days.  Tim and his brother shopped on Black Friday.  I chilled at my parents with Amazon and these guys. 

 [totally creeping in on Ben]

I think Jeremy was yelling "TIMMMM" right when I took the shot above.  

They are buddies.  

Trouble making buddies.

  [borrowed this shot from Amy]

Hope you had an AMAZING Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Birthday, Ann!!!

 

You can thank me later ;)

Christmas Cards Can Save a Life

Are you sending Christmas cards out this year?? I was just blog hopping and remembered Angie telling us about the Christmas cards through The Rhema project, which is very close to our hearts.  Go here and save a life:  http://aquilavilla.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/christmas-cards-save-girls-lives/

Please and thank you.

:)

Tim Started the Fire

Last Saturday Tim and I burned all of the leaves that we had gathered into a pile during the leaf-falling-season week.  The plan was to bag them and send them off with our trash company.  We quickly discovered that we had way too many leaves.  So instead, we moved them over to the side of our yard and set them on fire!  At first, we followed our county laws [which I am still very unclear on - Mo any advice?!] and started burning them in the covered fire pit you see to the right of Tim.  But then our entire pile went up in flames; I guess it was a windy day and we had our pile to close the the pit.  To say I was freaking out would have been an understatement.  I had our fire extinguisher on my lap [that's right I was just sitting there, drugged up on cold medicine] and my phone ready to dial 911.  There was a time or two when I thought we should call the fire department, but Tim said he had everything under control [which he did].  In hindsight, I wonder what his reaction would have been if I had called for help without him knowing and all of the sudden fire trucks just showed up.  I can only imagine the look he would have given me.  He had everything under control [In the future I will chill - lesson learned] and now all of our leaves are gone, holler!    

This is about 1/4 of our leaves:

[side note - we only have 1 tree on our property that's not an evergreen]

 See all the blacked grass?  That was where our first pile was that went up in smoke.

Now you can see why I was freaking out, it was huge - plus it was a very windy day.

 This smelled so good!!

27 days of Giving

The Dave Ramsey 27 Days of Giving is back!!!  Start entering!!!

http://www.daveramsey.com/specials/christmas-giveaway/ 

November 5th

Write that date down.  That was the date of our first snowfall this winter.  Way. Too. Early.  Here's a picture of our house:

 Here are our plants & pumpkins... this looks so wrong.

 Of course, in Indiana fashion, here is a picture taken less than 48 hours later.

Nice and sunny, high around 60.

This is why I went straight from my flip flops to my Uggs and then back to my flip flops. 

:)

Knowledge is Power

I want this to be the next book I read:

They say it was your birthday....

Happy Birthday to two of our nephews.  I'm a little behind.  Both birthdays have come and gone.... but you both had great parties!!!  Happy 1st to Luke and 2nd to Jeremy!!!!

Thank you!!

A big thank you to everyone that helped us move!!  We had some of the kewlest peeps out here!!  Thank you Josh, Tiffany, Amanda, Travis, J, Angie, Adam, Beth, Carrie, Andrew, Ann, Dan, Tony, Emily, Wayne, Sandy and LUKE!!!

Pumpkin Time!

A few weeks ago [well maybe almost a month ago] we went pumpkin picking!!  Usually we go out into a field and search and search and search for the perfect pumpkin.  This year we took the easy route, just pick from a pile of already picked pumpkins.  Holler!

 The view out of our front door:

 

I've been switching between these little gems... Yummmmmm