Doug's 34+2

We just celebrated Doug's 36th Birthday, which was great fun!  First, there was breakfast in bed...

(His favorites from Shipley's)

 Then, church with our family and a wonderful lunch at the Rose Garden Tearoom...one of his favorites!

 Then, a full day of relaxing at home, takeout pizza from Moni's and presents!

 Doug, you are my sweet husband, my best friend and the one I can't wait to celebrate MANY more birthdays with!!  I love you!!!

The house chores continue...

Settling into this new house has been a WAY bigger venture than I anticipated.  We have had a great time getting used to our new house, and making it a home.  Doug has had so much fun playing "Mr. Fix-it".  So far, he hasn't pulled to many Cliff Huxtable moments.  I remember on the Cosby's how Claire always dreaded it when Cliff would break out the toolbox.  I have been pleasantly surprised at how much time and effort Doug has spent working and learning how to do our much needed around the house projects.

Here he is on his way up to the attic to reinforce the wood floor up there. 

 Way to go, Doug!!  Thankful for your happiness to be a Mr. Fix-it! You're doing great!!



Christmas 2010

We had a great Christmas.  We celebrated in Charlotte this year, which was great fun.  We also did a little home celebration , but I was terrible about taking pictures.  This is a pretty bad picture of our first tree in the new house.  It was so much fun to decorate (though I only broke out about 1/4 of my decorations this year) our new house!

 Outside Lights

This year, we, along with our precious nephews and nieces acted out the nativity story for the family...

The angel (Corinne) has just given Mary the news that she's about to be great with child! 

Joseph was surprised by the angel...aka Elea! 

 All wrapped up in the gift explosion aftermath! (Doug and Nathan)

 On Christmas Day, we had the wonderful surprise of SNOW...and lots of it!!

Here's Corinne showing off her snowball!

 The boys gearing up for a snowball fight.

 Simply beautiful...

 Later we we went to a park to go sledding.  Some had better success than others.

As I said, I just did not take pictures like I'd hoped to this year! But, we had a wonderful time celebrating with our sweet family, both in Charlotte and here.

Such a blessing.

Santa on the Roof 2010

Santa visited the Goodyears again this year!! Such fun!!

Risky's First Visit to BoisDArc!

We have been bringing Risky over for some trial visitation at our house.  This was the first time that we brought him for a visit.  He spent half the day walking around the house totally confused.  He spent the second half of the day passed out.

We are considering bringing him to live with us, but we're a little scared about moving him from my Mom's house.  Mallie's grandmother had a cat (or was it a dog) that walked all the way back to it's old home when she tried to move it...and it was a LONG WAY!

We would be so very sad if something happened to our sweet Risky...so for now, he's just our visiting kitty! Meow!