Just Another Day in Paradise : November 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

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!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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

Thursday, November 18, 2010

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 =)

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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!