First Thanksgiving...

Our first Thanksgiving was a hit! G and I had a fabulous time together and with family. He kept telling me that this was a very great day. My mom set a beautiful table, the food was delish (my Chocolate Kahlua Cheesecake was to die for btw:) the company was fab and all in all it was just a sweet, relaxing day. I love my family and love how different this year was from last.

I just dropped George off at the mall. He will work the next 15 hours of Midnight Madness/Black Friday HELL. He has not said one negative thing about the amount or timing of his hours. He is thankful just to get to work. I am so blessed and proud to have such a hard working, long suffering man!

I hope everyone else had a day as great as we did.

What a life!

We've had a pretty hectic couple of weeks, but things are going great! I am so excited for Thanksgiving and ready for a couple of days to relax....and eat!

I am so thankful that this year George and I are TOGETHER! There just aren't words to describe the completeness I feel or the gratitude I have to God that He is letting me have this awesome life and that we are not currently dealing with immigration. Wow...it's still hard to wrap my mind around sometimes.

In addition to having George here, I am thankful for my family; especially for the support from my parents over the past 10 months or so while we have adjusted to American life. We are so thankful and blown away by how great our church is and the wonderful relationships we are building-we really love our small group. I am thankful for my new job and for the amazing health benefits. Of course there is more, but those are on the top of my list right now. I feel so blessed and so grateful to be living this life.

Still here!

I'm still here and things are going great! I'm loving my new job! We're having Internet issues, so I've been pretty much disconnected from the world.....okay, just the world wide web. We're getting that fixed this week, so I'll update on all the happenings then.

I love my life and I love having George here (finally). I want to be a person who is content with my life, no matter what. There's one thing though...I want to travel! I really miss going on adventures and exploring new places and I would love to do that with G. Until that day comes, I will keep dreaming and expanding the list of places I want to go. All of these seem nice...

Halloween & Weekend Recap

We had a great weekend and are really looking forward to all that this week and November hold!

Our young married small group had a Halloween party earlier in the week and it was fun! George is experiencing so many new cultural things, Halloween may top them all. I've never been a huge Halloween person and didn't really grow up celebrating it, but I love parties and love costumes. George wasn't super into dressing up, so we took the easy way out and went as Heidi and Seal. ;) We carved pumpkins, which kind of grossed George out, ate Frito pie (and tons of desserts) and had punch with dry ice in it. ALL new for George! We both had a great time and love our small group. On Friday, G and I had opposite work schedules-which I hate-so I took advantage of the alone time and went Birthday shopping for him. His B-day isn't until the 9th, but I wasn't sure when I could be sneaky again. I wrapped the gifts and put them in the living room so they would taunt him for a week and a half. Mean, I know. On Saturday evening he started jumping up and down and running around the apartment shouting, "I know what it, I know what it is!! Wow!! Thank you so much!!" Yep, he had figured one of the gifts out. So I let him open it early. George is the VERY PROUD owner of, As Seen On TV Shake Weight!! He loves it so much it's funny!

One thing we did this weekend was a November Expectations meeting. As the holidays approach, I start a new job, and things get crazier with G's job, we wanted to make sure we were on the same page about everything. It was actually really fun to discuss everything coming up and make plans together.

Speaking of plans, since this Thanksgiving and Christmas are our first together, I really want to make them special and start meaningful traditions. I've been doing research and writing down all my favorite holiday things so I don't forget (nerd, I know). I was wondering what traditions my readers have or things they wish they had started or done their first married Christmas? I know not many of you comment, but I'd love to hear!

Happy NOVEMBER!!