Texas

I am sitting in our hotel room in Abilene, TX right now. It’s been a very busy weekend. W spent all day getting everyting decorated today. It’s been fun but none stop working on stuff since we arrived. I’m really looking forward to just relaxing and spending time with family next week. We will head out to Waco Monday morning.

Time to lay down and take it easy now. Tomorrow is the big day.

“Up on a mountain our Lord….”

Been listening to The Welcome Wagon a lot I’m really excited about playing with Adam for the Ecclesia Collective worship gathering. It’s a lot of fun to work on music together for stuff. We are hoping to start doing some more with The Rainy Day Parade so we will see what we can crank out this year for that.

Today I hiked Cowles Mountain with a friend. It was beautiful up there. I had never been and apparently it is the highest point in the city of San Diego. There is a 360 degree view of the city from up there. It was a little overcast this morning, but still a beautiful view none-the-less.I love hiking. I like to be outdoors and get my heart rate up. Plus, I was accompanied by a dear friend so you can’t really ask for a better way to start your morning.

This afternoon I watched Laelia for a little while. She is just the most adorable thing! We were playing with one of her toys that has all these different musical sounds. Oh how she loves music. She just starts dancing and laughing. I can’t get enough of it. It cracks me up.

Tonight is date night. Woohoo! Today has been a wonderful day!

The Return

Alright, so I am officially done with my holiday break from blogging. I’ve been thinking a lot about what to write about and haven’t landed on anything yet.

Adam and I went tent camping with two other couples for New Years. It was so much fun. It was very cold, but as long as the fire was going everything was alright. The campground was all covered with snow, but we managed so find a dry campsite to call home for two days. we intended to just be gone for one but had so much fun that we stayed another night.

I never really went camping growing up so I am enjoying this new found outdoor activity. I like not really knowing what time it is. I like going to sleep because it’s dark and I am tired. I like waking up because it’s light and the birds are singing. It’s nice to be off a “I have to get these things done at these times” schedule. Waking up with the sun and enjoying God’s creation first thing in the morning is so refreshing. I tend to get more and more rigid the busier I get. I don’t stop to breath and enjo, I just power through to make it. I think we started the new year off right.

I am very excited for 2009. Adam and I have talked a lot about what God has been doing in our hearts and what we see/want to happen for this year. We’ve made some decisions that might be tough, but they are good. God has given us such a love and passion for our community. We intend on focusing much of our time in 2009 on the people in the community and doing things we are passionate about. We have decided to shy away from being a part of every little program and event to really focus quality time on this area, the people in our lives/around us and our marriage. Focusing quality time on our marriage is something we have always been very careful about protecting and continue to make decisions to do so.

Adam is going to be playing with Red Pony Clock again till July. He also plans on working on more of his music. I plan on working on music,crafts, cooking with friends/teaching others how to cook and going through books with others who enjoy good reads as much as me.

Speaking of good reads… I’ve got a pile of wonderful books to start reading. I haven’t decided where to start yet…so I haven’t started yet. I think I will this week though.

Here are a couple photos from our trip

Blog Break

Taking a little break from most internet stuff to just hangout with my husband, family and friends. Will write an actual post soon though. Stay tuned.

Christmas on the brain

It’s been a busy week. We had our community group Christmas party on Wednesday and it was a hoot. Everyone took part in the tradition of playing the Bob Bobertson song. I’ll post the video soon to help all of you who are wondering “Bob Bobertson? What the heck?” I’ll have to create a whole post just to explain it.

Friday I went up to Escondido early in the morning to get my car looked at and talk with my Dad. Afterwards, I met up with my brother for breakfast. Had a great time talking about stuff. I’m so proud of him. He is getting his masters (all A’s and his greek prof told him he has the makings to be a greek scholar), leads the college group, works part time for my dad, is in charge of missions, overseas small groups (getting ready to hand that off though), is an elder and still finds time to be with people and make them feel like the most important thing going on. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t sleep at all though. After breakfast we picked up my nana and took her out to finish her christmas shopping and wrapped all the gifts she had. It is just too hard for her to do that stuff now. I’ve taken her to finish her shopping for the past 5 years or so and it’s one of my favorite traditions. My grandparents were always very involved in our lives. When my mom passed away, I don’t know what I would’ve done without them. They helped me keep it all together. My nana took over my home schooling. She should get some kind of national recognition just for that. She put up with a lot from me. She became one of my dearest friends during the hardest part of my life. After spending the day in Escondido I headed home to change and go to “The Habitat” and see old friends. 

Adam’s family came over tonight. They brought dinner and we watched Home Alone. A true Christmas classic. I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas to come. I’m not sure what it is this year, but I’m just really excited about it. We are really blessed with our families and friends and I just find myself really appreciating everyone around us so much. It’s interesting to see who God places in our lives through different parts of the journey. I’m excited for the year to come. I think it holds a lot of new stuff for us but stuff that God has been preparing our hearts to do over the past year.

Before Adam’s parents came over, I was baking biscotti. Something I do every year and am pretty good at. I don’t know what happened, but the first batch came out all messed up. It nearly stole my christmas cheer with every crumble. I’m still not sure what all happened. I’ve never had anything like that happen while cooking/baking before. It will remain the Christmas mystery I guess. The second batch came out perfect. Strange.

Spent a lot of time wrapping presents yesterday. I don’t know why, but I really love to wrap presents. It’s probably one of my favorite things to do around the holidays.

The gifts are under the tree, the goodies are nearly baked, party going is almost complete and it’s time to settle in and just relax.