Happy New Years!

Happy New Years Everyone! I hope everyone that is planning on partying tonight has a great and safe time!

We will be staying home and just celebrating with our family. We really are homebodies and enjoy spending time at home with our family.

Tomorrow I start my new quest to loose weight... a friend and I are going to do a "biggest looser" competition. We both have some extra weight on that we need to loose, so I'll eat junk food tonight for the New Year celebration, and then I'll be good and stay away from it for a while and hopefully with that and a bunch of exercise- loose this extra weight. :)

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas here at home with our little family, and a great relaxing weekend as well. I hope to get the pictures up on the family blog in the next few days.

I was thinking today that I didn't get any cards or christmas letter out. I'm sorry I didn't get it out to those who really enjoy receiving christmas cards and letters. I was talking to a friend and we were saying how that is a tradition that sadly seems to be dying down. In our parents time it was the important thing that I remember my mom making sure she got christmas cards out on time so they would reach their destinations before Christmas came. Many times it was one of 2-3 letters per year she would have or share with old friends and aquainances.

In this new age of internet and email and blogs and facebook- it seems less important to write out a letter about what our family has done in the past year. Most of the stories that might have been mentioned in a christmas letter are told in great detail on blogs and through emails.

So I did not get a christmas letter, or card sent out to our family and friends, but I want to share my love for all our family and friends. Merry Christmas to everyone. May the joy that we have felt this month as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ; be a joy that we can take with us throughout this coming year. May we keep his examples of love and charity with us through the cold dreary days of winter, and the sweltering days of summer. We have been given many blessings, and some of the greatest blessings we have are the love and friendships of our family and friends. Thank you for your love and friendship and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Julie

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

I got an early Christmas Present yesterday. A box was delivered with my name on it, and I had no idea what it was. So I put it aside to ask Rich about it when he got home. He said he didn't know what it could be, so we opened it up and to our great surprise found... The oven part!!!!!!!

So Rich was able to unplug all the wires to the old control panel, and plug them all into the new control panel...

And I get to bake today! WOOOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!


Merry Christmas everyone!!

It's been a week

I was so blessed last week by wonderful friends who had me bring over my laundry to wash at their houses.

I'm pleased to announce that today I'm back in the laundry buisness again. :) We just got our new washer and I've already got a load in it! :)

Now we just have to wait for the oven part to fix that appliance. Oh... I don't think I mentioned it on here, but the oven part is backordered until.....























jan 5th!!!!! I know, I cried when I heard that. I was a little depressed about it for a few days, but I'll survive. We will get through christmas without an oven, and still eat a bunch of yummy food.

I found a microwave cookbook in my cabinet the other day that I had forgotten we had, so I've been getting some ideas from that. I've made biscuits and cornbread in my electric skillet, and grilled cheesy garlic bread on the griddle... I've got friends passing me their tried and true and favorite crock pot recipe's, and generally I can make a regular meal off of the stove- so I've just been cooking as normal and trying to figure out optional ways to make our bread portions of meals- or skipping them.

Stop signs...

Okay... so somethings are speed bumps... and others are stop signs.

I've got a part ordered for the oven, we haven't gotten it yet, but hopefully it will be the right part, Rich can fix it and it will come soon.

Yesterday we discovered out Washing machine is broken... so there's a stop sign. I'm searching for a decent laundromat to use until will solve that problem and probably get a new washer. We've repaired this one so many times we don't feel it's worth putting any more money into it to repair it again.

Thanks for all the comments... I am waiting patiently until I get the oven fixed and then I'll probably go on a baking spree! :) So everyone that is local- watch out I may have to send my extra goodies to your houses. lol!