So, my Cowboys won against Green Bay last night - yeah baby! I'm a native Texas girl (I live in SC now) so I'm all about the Cowboys coming out of their losing slump. I think we can make it to the Super Bowl, but I'm not overly hopeful about beating the Patriots. My husband is a football fanatic (played in high school and college) so he is loving my new found interest in football this year! I think he would rather see me in sweats watching a football game then in sexy lingerie! :)

It's 12:00 on Friday and I'm still in my pj's - what a rare thing, but I love it! I've had to make a lot of phone calls this morning so I just got my coffee and plopped down on the couch this morning.

I know this is random and kind of cheesy, but for some reason I just was thinking about how happy I am right now. My marriage has had some rough times over the years, but I can honestly say that now is the best that it has ever been. I think this is largely due to finding a church, getting involved and attending a great Sunday school class together. In fact, our Sunday school class has been doing a series on marriage and it has been WONDERFUL!

I'm also happy because we're trying to have another baby and I'm excited about what next year could bring. We've been trying for awhile, but for some reason I'm not getting stressed out about it. My heart has such a desire for adoption that I know we will add to our family in one way or another.

One of the main reasons I'm so happy right now is because my Christmas shopping is DONE!!! I did the majority of it in October on the internet - what would I do without the internet? For the past few years, I worked 100% from home for the company I worked at for quite a few years before Max was born. They were so wonderful and flexible with me, but the end of the year was the busiest time for what I was doing - I'm talking working until 2:00 in the morning the week of Christmas. So, my husband and I talked about it and decided that we didn't want to do that again. I quit at the end of September and have been enjoying being a true stay at home mom - and doing all my Christmas shopping! It is so nice to actually be able to enjoy the holidays and not be so stressed out - this may just be the best Christmas in a long time!

Back to the Cowboys, here's a picture of my nephew (on the right) with two of the cheerleaders. It was taken a few weeks ago. His older brother was embarrased to get his picture taken with them (he's 7) - boy, is he going to regret that later! :)

Another year...another visit to Santa! We went to the mall around 2:00 this afternoon and only had to wait around 15 minutes - you gotta love that. The only thing Max asked for was "Whiff" - a new Thomas train. Something tells me his list will get longer as the years go by!

So, Max and I are eating lunch at our local Duke's sandwich shop and I get up to get more tea. As I'm filling my cup I hear Max yell out "Mommy I pooted." What the heck?!? He's done that to me at another restaurant - WHY? It's almost like he knows it will embarrass me and get a laugh or two. Well, it got a laugh, lots of laughs - the people around us thought it was hilarious. Might be hilarious today at the age of 4...let's just hope he doesn't pull this one on me in a couple of years.

This time last year my mother-in-law was celebrating Thanksgiving at our house - it was the last time she was here. You could tell she didn't have a lot of energy and that she wasn't feeling 100%. BUT, that didn't stop her from helping me cook, playing endlessly with Max and anything else that was needed.

She passed away on January 10th of this year at the young age of 60. Don, Max and I spent her last two weeks with her and I'm so glad we had that time. She was a great lady and a wonderful mother to my husband. I miss her a lot and I am just so sad that Max won't be able to know her and know how much she loved him.

Yesterday was MY Christmas because my new camera came via the UPS man! Thanks to great recommendations from fellow bloggers, Diana and Kim, we decided to invest in the Nikon D40x. Well, I've only taken a few pics but I think I'm really going to love it! The quality seems to be so much better than my old cheap camera - of course, it doesn't take much to have better quality than the one that broke after 1 month of use.

Well, my little 2 lb baby is 4 years old today! Hard to believe. We'll be celebrating tonight with family and, of course, it will be a Thomas the Train party. This is the 2nd year that Thomas has come to Max's birthday party - maybe next year Max will have moved on to something else. :)