Christmas Eve

I sit here realizing how much I am blessed. In 25 minutes it will be Christmas..I still need to vacuum and bring up presents from the basement, help set up Santa's gifts...and for some reason it took till now to really hit me how lucky I am...I mean I always knew it...just certain times really make it stand out. I have a beautiful family...Husband who loves me to pieces and a precious baby girl who tells me she loves me all the time. We have so much to be thankful for. I can't wait till the morning when Sarah wakes up and opens all of her gifts. It's the best feeling to see her so happy and excited. Sure we went overboard with gifts. But it is so much fun to buy for her. We went to Christmas Eve service tonight. I got teary eyed when we sang certain songs. I really miss going to church on a regular basis. Sarah was really good. She swayed to the music and even tried to sing a couple of songs. It was really cute. She would clap after each song. There is a guy in the choir that looks alot like Santa. Dave and I wondered if she would see him. Well the last few songs had the choir spread out all over the church..and Santa was a couple of rows down from us. Sure enough, when the choir finished and started to leave..she shouts..."there's santa!" LOL I told her Jesus' birthday was tomorrow. She smiled at that. I want her to know our Lord. She likes to pray. Randomly she will say things like "Thank you Jesus for this box, and for cookies and for Poppa and Mama". (she was sitting in an empty storage container) My heart just swells and I am so proud of her! Isn't childhood innocence the best?! Well better rap this up. I hope that everyone can know the love of our Lord..especially this time of year. Merry Christmas!!!

Another new addition!

Well we decided to take Minnie (guinea pig) back to the pet store. She just wasn't warming up to us...too jumpy and waaaay to messy! I really wanted a dog...for years actually. I talked Dave into going to the local animal shelter and a no kill shelter about 45 minutes from here. The local shelter had a couple of cuties..so we kept them in mind as we headed to the open house at the other shelter. I had done a little searching on their website and really wanted to meet a dog named Sweetie. We got there about an hour after they opened and the place was packed. They had so many cats it was unreal. Alot of the dogs were either gone or spoken for. But Sweetie was the "greeter". The first dog you saw when you walked through the door on the dog side. We looked at her...thought she was cute..but had several patches on skin with little hair. So we kind of went on. I just wasn't drawn to any of the other dogs in the 2nd room. We came back out and I asked to see Sweetie again. The lady got her out of the cage and let me walk her outside a little. Good night that dog is strong! If I had ski's on she would have pulled me all over the place. lol I could see why people were passing her by...the way she looked..but I looked past that and saw a gentle dog. She wasnt jumping all over us like the first shelter dogs did. She wasn't barking like crazy..and all the ladies that worked at the shelter loved her. I asked Dave if we could adopt her and he said yeah. I was so suprised they let us take her home that day. We had to bring home meds for her for her skin. We took her to the vet today and found out she isn't as "well" as they made her out to be. We got her more meds and special shampoo. Hopefully with that and lots of love we can get her coat back to what it use to be. She is really a lovebug. If we leave the room she follows us..or if she doesn't she is always waiting with a big kiss..or at least a paw to the chest. Sarah really gets along well with her too. She has tried to ride her a couple of times and Sweetie just lays there. If they ride together in the back of the SUV..Sweetie is usually right next to Sarah. It is sooo cute! I hope they can be best buddies as they grow up together.