Josh & Shana

First, I apologize to everybody for thinking we are pregnant again. I know Josh is hilarious right. He says he did that on purpose. So, if you would like give him a hard time about it. :)

Second, I am extremely proud of my Martha abilities lately. I have mastered one of Judy's biscuit recipes. As you can see below. This is really exciting for me. As you know, my husband is a great cook and it was his idea to get Judy's recipe. Well, he attempted it many times and they never would rise up. Well, I did it once and had that touchdown emotion overwhelm me as they came out of the oven perfect. Since then they have come out perfect every time.

Third, this was my adventure for today. I love having a wreath on my door. Not just for Christmas either. Growing up my grandma would make her own festive wreaths for her door every month. I remember helping pick stuff out to put them together as a little girl. So, I guess you could say that it stayed with me. I would love to have a wreath for my door for every month. Where would I store them all right? One thing at a time. Well, my girlfriends at home in GA will be happy to know that I finally exhausted my Micheals giftcard they gave me over a year ago for my birthday. Yeah I know, I guess you would say I milked it. Well, technically I still have like 25 cents on it. I went the other day to see what I could find for a wreath for our door. Well, I only had 8 dollars left on my giftcard and all the premade wreaths were way more then that. With coupon in hand I wondered around the store with Truett in Ergo trying to figure out what to do. Just my luck (well if I believed in it) there was a women in the store making wreaths. I sat there and gleaned some ideas from her for a minute, and then off I was to accomplish my idea. With 8 bucks left and a coupon from the Sunday paper, I could only afford a wreath base (with no decor on it). So, I decided to bring it home and try and pull something together. If it didn't work I could always take it back. I had these flowers. They were a gift many years ago from Judy. They used to live in a pottery vase, then they were revamped into a door hanger wreath thing (i have no clue what to call this thing). If you have seen any of our video tours of our apartment you have probably seen them hanging on the door. So, it was time to reuse them again. I cut off the stems and hot glued them into my wreath. The ribbon I had in my wrapping stuff. I bought a ton of ribbon like this in the gift wrapping section after Christmas one year. I got it for 90 percent off. I believe I got this stuff the first year we were married. Can you say it has lasted me. One day when I run out of stuff, I will go restock (after Christmas of course). You probably are asking how I got this stuff hot glued into the wreath. This by far is probably my proudest moment, bread bag ties. Whenever I get bread I take the ties off and put my pampered chef clips on the bag. For some reason I have been collecting the ties in my kitchen drawer. Not knowing what I might use them for. Well, they came in super awesome handy today. I am super proud of my gorgeous wreath that I made on a dime. Please if you think it is ugly, keep it to yourself because I am on cloud nine :)

P.S. A special shout out to Rachel L. (my neighbor) for letting me borrow her cordless hot glue gun, I literally couldn't have done it with out you. That thing is awesome I have to get one, one day.


Lastly, I made brownies from scratch last night. We have been dwindling down our sweets stock because we were going to try and loose some weight and get fit again. I especially would like to before I get pregnant again. At least get my abs back. Well, all that to say there were no sweets left. Josh was craving so I decided to check my favorite cooking website allrecipes.com to see if I had all the ingredients for any good brownie recipes. Sure enough I did. They turned out awesome. I also got to try out my new brownie pan that we got for Christmas from one of our students. Yeah you guess it, it is the brownie pan with the divider thing that was all over the infomercials. It is really cool. I have to say that I like it.

Well, that is all for my update now. It is really long.

P.S. still wanting a snuggie

Ok, I know this is going to be one of those weird random posts, but here goes nothing.

It was a big gift item pushed this season for Christmas, and I am sure lots of you got them for Christmas or other gifts. If you got one and have no clue what to do with it or don't want it, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give it to me. I really want a snuggie.

Ok, so this was my blog plea for a snuggie. Thanks or listening.

3-6 inches of snow today? Its possible. I'm guessing that we'll have more around 2-3. I'm able to make such predictions because of my extensive weather background. Actually I'm just hoping for less. South of us is supposed to get up to 10 inches. I hope it stays south.

I'm in the library working on a paper. Whether I'm reading or writing I typically have music in my ears. Its usually some combination of jazz, soft instrumental, or movie soundtracks. Wordless background music that helps me think. A while back I discovered a great website called Pandora Radio. You may have used it before, I think its been out for a while. But if you haven't I'll explain. Its a streaming website that lets you pick what you want to listen to. You get to create your own radio station. When creating a station you type in the name of an artist or song that you like. For instance I'm a big fan of Need To Breathe. I entered the band into the awesomeness engine (that's my title for it) and it begins playing one of their songs. Next, it searches the database for bands like them and plays their music. Its great to get to hear new artists that I wouldn't normally get to hear and to hear other music that I like. Based off of Need To Breathe I've gotten Bebo Norman, Mat Kearney, and David Crowder.

So for studying I have two stations that I listen to. The first one I typed in John Williams (the composer who scored Star Wars, and pretty much every Steven Spielberg movie ever). So for the next several hours I get movie scores from Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, and Schindler's List (and tons of others).

My other station is one I just created on whim that I am now listening to. I typed in Charlie Parker. Probably the greatest jazz sax player ever. The next three artists: Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, and Miles Davis. So sweet. Give it a try.

Here is Truett hanging out with Madelyn (Danielle's girl). She is 10 weeks younger than him. Danielle sorry if I spelled her name wrong.



Truett here playing with Scott (he's a student in our small group).

Today I made a guest appearance on my friend Andy Darnell's blog. You can find the post here. I wrote about "The Sin of Busy." Its basically a summary of last semester and the convictions that followed. Andy was also kind enough to post the audio of the sermon that I preached over Christmas break at my home church (Christ Church of Metro Atlanta). Check it out.

In case you haven't heard, NBC is dumb. I'm a Conan fan over Jay. Always have been. Even though in my advancing years I can't stay up as late as I used to I sometimes catch Conan's opening monologue. He's really funny and it stinks for him that all this has happened. Well, in the large scope of things I really don't care, but he's a funny guy.

FoxNews.com has a slideshow featuring the best jokes that have been told since the late night feud started. Better though, watch this video:

Here is a video from this week. Maggie gave Truett these food holder things. I put ice in them and Truett loves it. He is kind going in and out of teething so I think it feels really good on his gums.