“I’m only here for the food!”

Come what may and love it

Just some things to update. How does time go by so fast?

My life is good. Not perfect. But SO good. I can’t believe that January is almost over! But December was such good month that I want to reflect back a little on it.

• I learned how to make  gourmet chocolates! The hub’s grandmother makes an assortment of different chocolates every year that are TO DIE for. So. I decided to make an attempt. On of the husband’s deciding questions on whether or not to marry me was if I would be willing to learn how to make these said chocolates. He sounds hard to please, eh? Naturally I wasn’t hard to convince.

These are homemade Almond Joys mmmm….

Isn’t she adorable?

The chocolates turned out great. I can’t wait to try more! Hopefully someday I will be able to make them as smooth and beautiful as grandmas.

• This year I discovered how much I love puzzles! Every year around Christmastime my  mom would break out the card table and we would have a puzzle out all the time. One of our Christmas presents was a card table so I couldn’t resist! Here is on of the first ones that got me going. This is a puzzel of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Russia.

Please excuse my husband’s half nakedness…

• Christmas was wonderful. My first time sharing Christmas. To be honest I was a tiny bit worried about how I would miss being with “my family” but the closer I got to it the more I realized that My husband is my family. So as long as I was with him, I would have a great Christmas. And it was great. I loved having TWO Christmases. Unfortunately I only got two pictures of our holiday.

This is our tree. Given to us from one of The husband’s old roommate’s

And this is my wise man

• Lately I have felt a great lacking of creativity in my life. So I try to take advantage wherever I can. A few Sunday’s ago my mom broke out our large stash of Legos. Who doesn’t love Legos? So I made a house. Complete with a workout room, Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, Entertainment room, and pantry.

Wanna see a close up? Ok, I’ll give you 2

• Our newest adventure has been car troubles. Thus far we have been blessed with 2 vehicles. Which is not only convenient but necessary. I have a fulltime job and mike goes to school and then 3 times a week (sometimes 4) commutes to work. We had been putting money here and there into our Lexus… til finally she died. Or rather, her transmission died. Which for us meant the same thing. We are now using my brother-in-laws old car (while he’s on his mission) while we scrimp and save til we can afford another car. I’ll admit it has been a bit stressful for us both. But it has taught me a lot about trusting in myself and my husband and especially God.

With all these things I am very slowly starting to learn is to love life whatever the circumstances. Or as someone I greatly admire once said: “Come what may and love it“

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