Happy Thanksgiving

I am thankful for my husband, for family, for the farm, for tradition, and for delicious food. What are you thankful for?

Our Christmas Gift to Each Other

We've been saving to get this for ourselves this Christmas. I know it's a little early, but we found this great deal on Craigslist - and I want to be able to take family pictures at Thanksgiving this year. Now we just need to start practicing taking pictures. 

Georgi

As mentioned before - our incentive to ourselves for paying off the car was to get a doggy. SO we started looking at local adoption sites. We feel like, with our current schedules, it would be better to rescue an older dog (not a puppy) since neither of us are able to be home a lot. Plus, I really feel like there are so many dogs that need a home, we should take care of the a poor unloved puppy.

Meet Georgi.

We found this little guy online, and instantly fell in love. Only to found out he had been adopted a day earlier. Oh so sad... and yet so happy. We're glad he has a home, but a little heart broken that it wasn't ours.

Since we're still in mourning, we've decided to wait until after the holidays to look again. We just can't take another heartbreak... But you can expect that I will be introducing you to another furry four-legged friend in the near future.

Saturday Farm Party

This past Saturday night our youth ministry hosted a Farm Party at Mainstay Farm in Cleburne, TX. It was so much fun - roasting hot dogs, jumping on a giant jumping pillow, the big maze (in the dark), hay rides, big slide, and of course roasting smores. Such fun and such great students!

Beautiful Kitchen

This kitchen is gorgeous. I love the mix of modern and vintage. It's so warm and inviting...

via Decorology

If you need to laugh...

This is so funny - I hope it makes you laugh as much as I did (there may have been a few tears)

Irish Brown Bread Ice Cream

I love all things Irish. And Ice Cream for that matter... So this weekend (in honor of my dear college roommate's visit, Monica) I think I shall try this:

Doesn't it look delicious? I'll post my own learning and photos after I give it a whirl this weekend.

Courtesy of:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2010/11/brown-bread-ice-cream-recipe/

Song for the Day

This song seems to fit my melancholy mood today. Plus her voice is pretty amazing.

P.S - thanks to my sweet sweet friend Sarah Wilkening for adding this to a mixed CD....
P.S.S - the video quality is a little wonky.

Ellie

So exciting news... We finally payed off Ellie. Ellie is David's blue Honda Element. After a year of sacrificing so we could make monster payments to her loan, we have finally payed her off. So exciting.

Bonus- our gift to ourselves (that we agreed upon when we first decided to pay Ellie off as quickly as possible) a new doggy :-) We think we're going to wait until after the holidays, since this time of year is so crazy... but I can't wait! Look how nicely pups work with an Element too.

Song in My Head - Mindy Gledhill, Anchor

I really like her voice and lyrics. She's been the soothing musician of the day - a calm voice in the midst of advertising insanity.

Here Comes the Cold

And our house is already shivering... Last year David and I would rock-paper-scissors for who had to get out of the bed first to turn on the rest of the heaters in the house. Oh I think it may have been colder inside than it was outside. Which kind of makes sense when you see our cute little house bundled in snow... plus the fact that the home was built in the 20's and has NO insulation.

Hoping for a little bit of a warmer winter this year!

I love these rustic country cottages...

(via My Black Book)

Verse for Memory

Galatians 3:24-26
So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

"Run, John, run the law commands,

But gives me neither feet nor hands;

Far better news the gospel brings:

It bids me fly; it gives me wings."

-John Bunyan

Lone Oak Winery

Saturday David and I visited the Lone Oak Winery in Burleson, TX. I've been eager to try some Texas wine and Saturday was so beautiful... so we just had to get outdoors. It was the perfect day to visit - they were hosting a little Fall Festival, with free tastings and pumpkin pie. Plus a live band and a scavenger hunt. You had clues that led you to different rows in the vineyard - then you wrote down the corresponding grape on that row. They drew a winner at the end of the event for a free bottle of wine. Sad to say we didn't win.

I think my favorite part was meeting the vineyard owner - he was so helpful and even let us taste wines as they were stabilizing in the vats. We tried a Viognier and a Chardonnay. The Chardonnay was my favorite! Which is really exciting because I have yet to discover a Chardonnay I really like - the sad part, is the wine isn't done yet. He said it will be ready around Christmas time. And boy I can't wait!

Check the vineyard out here - http://www.loneoakwinery.com/

Oh and thanks to my super cool college roommate, Monica, for introducing us to the vineyard and for giving us a free tour and tasting on my birthday (last year...) 

Happy Halloween

From the X-Men...