I made this for TopMomma.com for the fun of it.  I thought it was just plain cute (can the expressions and actions of my daughter get any cuter? Believe it or not, they can!). It may not make sense to any one but to me. But ya know, my whole motto here is that sanity is found in writing. So instead of yelling…go write (my husband is probably laughing at that, because I still manage to yell sometimes). Writing is my therapy.

That said, we got Savannah to the doctor this morning. She has bronchitis, poor girl. But now we’ve got antibiotics and (hallelujah) some cough medicine! So, she should be back to her normal, happy self soon.

School starts back tomorrow. I’m not ready to go back to the stressful world. Goodbye winter break. Hello spring semester.

Well, this is the official first time of writing at the new blog. Exciting! It only took 2 days after purchasing it to get it running and looking decent. I probably learned more in those 2 days than I ever have in that amount of time. Of course, there is still much to learn, but I’m definitely enjoying the process (frustrations aside).  I’m still figuring things out and adding things here and there, but for the most part, I think it looks good. I’m proud of what I can do!

Thank goodness WordPress moved everything from the old one to here for me!  Easy as a click of a few buttons. WordPress.org is an amazing thing, I really couldn’t have done it all (and not so quickly!) without wordpress.  The FAQ is extremely helpful, let alone the program it’s self. It does a lot of things for me, making is so much easier.

My next project is to figure out how to get my site to show up more in search engines. Hmm…

And maybe change my layout again, just because I can (and because it looks so similar to the old blog).

We started our Christmas early yesterday morning at 6am when my little sister came to wake us up. Savannah woke up soon after and we headed down stairs for the Christmas day fun to officially begin. I think Savannah enjoyed playing in the wrapping paper more than the actually gifts, but what can you expect from a 10 month old? She was a very happy girl throughout the day (minus a trying-to-skip-a-nap-fight in the morning), loving the attention from family, the toys and posing for the camera. Santa brought her a push toy to help encourage walking, and she loved it until she topped over when she got too excited at her new talent. That scared her a bit but hopefully she’ll get back on the horse, er, legs and try again! She has taken up to 4 steps completely by her self in the past 2 weeks, walking is not too far away.

Mark finally, finally got the Xbox360 he’s been wanting. Along with every game he could ever want, so I don’t think I will see him until next Christmas. He got me a gorgeous green amethyst ring surrounded by diamonds (looks a lot like this one but square and cost way less!) . It’s amazing. Through, I did pick it out myself over our Thanksgiving trip to Maryland. But still, it’s a wonderful gift with special memories!

Like I posted previously, my big gift this year is my own web page. My Dad helped me pick out a good host (we went with Host Gator). But, it’s turning out to be far more complicated than I ever dreamed. Stuff just isn’t working right, I don’t understand what I’m doing and just when I think I’ve figure it out, something always goes wrong. Blah. Eventually I’ll get there. I hope.

Of course, Christmas is not all about the presents. For me, it’s about spending time with family and celebrating the life of Jesus Christ. All day my heart was filled with joy and thanks for all that He’s blessed us with. We really are lucky. My heart breaks thinking about the families that can’t even afford a ham to eat, let alone Christmas presents. I hope some how God provided for them.

Anyways, I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. It’s been a wonderful season for us, filled with many firsts. Eventually pictures will be up, but I’m sure my husband didn’t think to pack the camera cord to upload pictures, so it will be a while!

So the exciting news I’ve been referring to?

We’re moving! Well, virtually, that is. We’re moving web hosts so that we (I) have our own website. I’m so excited!

I’ve enjoyed this past year using wordpress.com, it’s given me a start into the public blogging world. It’s connected me to other great bloggers, it’s been easy to use but also helped me to grow and get to know about this blog thing more. I’ve been proud of the work I’ve done on here. But, I’ve started to feel really limited. Since it’s a free blog there are a lot more rules. Especially in the design area, it only allows you to pick out of the few design choices they offer unless you pay an extra fee per month. Easy enough, but if I’m going to pay something per month, I’d rather just have my own website where I can do practically anything I want! Also, as an extra way to earn a little money, I wanted to put up some tasteful ads from BlogHer Ads, but that wasn’t allowed (understandably though, since the blog is free).

I’ve been wanting my own space for a long time. I’m ready to learn new things about the internet/blog world. I’m ready to change graphics to my own taste and have a domain name established that doesn’t include .wordpress.com at the end. I’m ready for a header that doesn’t turn blurry and pixely when I upload it.

With money being tight (ya know, school supplies, diapers, baby food, Christmas presents, etc.), I asked for a website for Christmas. Luckily, my Dad is a high tech kind of guy and “gets” this sort of thing and gets why I would want one. During our week and half stay with my Dad, that will be father-daughter project. I’m so excited!

And so, I’m joining in on The Big Bloggy Move Party! Hosted by After a Cup of Coffee…or Two and SortaCrunchy (I would post a link to her as well, but I can’t find one that works).

February 11th, 2008 (how in the world is it already close to being 2008?) they will be posting all the links to the new websites that want to join in. Post your own when the time comes and check out everyone else’s new site! It’s a great way to get new readers and traffic. Of course, I’m hoping my new website will be way done, up and running by February 11th, but like I said, it’s a great way to get the new site out there. Go see if you qualify if you’d like to join in on the party! Did I mention…there will be prizes!

Happy Moving :-)

Well, only 6 months. But it seems like forever ago we were married, and it seems like we’ve been together forever. It surprises me that it’s only been 6 months!

Mark brought home some beautiful flowers for me. And, a few days ago we brought out our frozen cake top. We didn’t want to wait a year, we’re impatient.

It was extremely lopsided and covered with wrinkles from the plastic wrap that was around it for the past 6 months, but still tasty. That butter cream icing and raspberry filling, yum.

Speaking of anniversaries, it’s almost been a year since I’ve started this blog! Oh, what a year it has been.

Due to the increasing searches that are of the disgusting pedophile type involving the word “youngin,” I will be changing the title of the our blog.

It makes me angry and it makes me sad that there are people out in this world looking for such “entertainment.” How disgusting. And it makes me even more scared of what these people find here at our family blog.  This site it not meant to be one of sexual natural, it’s meant to share our family life with others.  You won’t find that stuff here.

This world scares me. Lord, help this world.