On the first day of Christmas.....

I finished decorating the tree. About a week ago while Mom and Dad were at the church getting the stage ready for the children's musical, Dudley and I put up the tree and then I put on white lights. That's as far as I got until today because we have been so busy with the adult musical. So tonight I finished it. Here it is:

New Idea....

So I have thought of a way to stay up-to-date this month with my blog......I am going to do the 12 days of Christmas! I have some time to think of some ideas since it is just December 1...but I am going to be as creative as I can with this!


So be waiting for December 14th....that is when I am going to start my first day of Christmas!

Birthday Date with Dudley

I am so blessed to have a wonderful boyfriend! Dudley took me to the Melting Pot for my birthday date on Friday night. It was fun to go there with him because neither of us had been there before!

Here are some pictures from our night (they aren't the greatest because the lighting was low and I didn't want to use the flash):

Before we left.

Can you tell I was excited?? LOL

Our cheese course. We got the Spinach and Artichoke cheese.

Only part of our main entree's

I was SUPER excited for the free chocolate we got. There were 10 to choose from. We went with the Cookies and Cream Marshmellow Dream. It was dark chocolate with marshmellow whip, and then Oreo cookie crumbs. Yum-my!

And this is how we felt when it was all over. LOL! But as you can see.....



It was all well worth it!

Halloween....

This is one holiday our family does not celebrate. We have always either done things with the church or just left the house and done our own thing. This year Mom, Dad, Adam, Andrea, Dudley and I went bowling and then to Taco Bell.



On the way



Thats right! I beat EVERYONE!! Even my Dad! This never happens!!


Dudley is sad because I beat him :)

Trip to Illinois!

My mom and I got to spend our Fall Break on a trip to see Renee', Ryan and Teagan! It is always good to get to go up and spend time with them when we can.

Us girls and Teagan took a trip into Schaumburg (I think thats how it is spelled) to IKEA and Olive Garden.

Then we just relaxed on Friday, and that night we got to go to my cousin Pam's for some time with her family and my Aunt Mern and Uncle Lee.

Teagan turned 5 months!

Saturday was a beautiful day so we went to Rockton and walked around some of the little shops. This is from a kids consignment shop we went into.

2 in 1 day...WOot!

Here is a little glimpse at what I did this weekend:

Friday - Dudley and I went on a date to Chili's and to see Where the Wild Things Are

Saturday - We went to a chili cook-off that some friends from church were having. I forgot to take my camera so I didn't get any pictures of it.

Sunday - We got to hang out with our wonderful friends Nicole and Justin and their little boy Tait. We went to a place called The Incredible Pizza Company. It is between Chuck E. Cheese and Dave and Busters. There were still kids there but it had a lot more for adults to do.

An Update....

This entry is to stop my dad from nagging me about updating :)


There are so many good things going on right now that it would be hard for me to doubt just how wonderful God is!! Since my last post, Dudley has been blessed with a job here in Mooresville (it is actually right down the road from my house). He is working full-time for a man from the church who had heard Dudley was looking for working, and he needed people at his shop. Dudley was part of a play in Georgia and the man was willing to work with Dudley and allow him to start once the play was over! GOD IS GOOD!!!!

Things were looking up more and more, and the only thing we needed to figure out now is where Dudley would stay once he got up here. Well, once again GOD IS GOOD! A family from Dudley's home church has family about 30 minutes from where Dudley is working and they have a house that he can stay in fully furnished for FREE!!! It was the lady's mother's house and they still use it when they visit but no one is permanently living in it! It is a little ways away from everything but it will give Dudley the chance to save up and find a place that he really likes!

This all has to be God's doing because there is no other way that it would have all come together like it did!