May you know God's peace

"A foggy day in London town..."

On our way into London :) We had a really great day! Pretty much everything was a blessing, we found lots of things in London that we weren't even looking for and everything we were looking for as well. I wish I could describe what an awesome day this was, I am still smiling.

The ice skating rink in front of The Natural History Museum, it was so much fun. I don't have any pics of us on the ice (because you can't take camera's in) but we had a blast, especially since neither of us fell.

(Below) I love the hummingbird bakery cook book, so I was really excited when we stumbled across the actual bakery! They have some really yummy stuff.

Ok, you will need to control your excitement, I know it will be hard but you just have to wait...

Ahhhhhhh!!! We are SO excited, can you believe your eyes? We almost can't...but we do. They are opening up Chipotle's first international Chipotle in London! Oh we'll be back! It opens in April...it's almost cruel to have us wait that long, but I am willing to let it slide for that goodness. I was and still am seriously giddy, eeek our "own" Chipotle only an hour away. Hmmm April, I wonder what we'll be doing on Alan's birthday?

They are also looking for more locations in London, and they eventually want to open stores in Paris and other parts of Europe...after all no place should be deprived of this stuff.

Love you all, Happy Christmas Eve! (It is technically Christmas Eve here :)

I still can't believe where we live!

Just after taking this picture it started snowing! It didn't stick, but it was pretty while it was falling. We are suppose to get more snow this week!!! :-)

A few pictures from today

Just Fun

These are just some funny pictures we took recently. Man do you see my hair! I may like England but my hair is taking a while to come around. It get so fluffy on rainy days, which apparently is quite often :)

"over the fields we go, laughing all the way!"

We put up our Christmas tree on December 1st, these are just a couple pics from that night. I think I just have one more thing to buy and I will be all done! I will try to get some pics of downtown Oxford up soon, the lights down there look great and the street performers are out in full force. Hope everyone is enjoying their December, we sure are :)

Bye Buddy

My mom and sister should be landing right about now at LAX. Here are just a couple of pics from their trip.

I hope you guys had a decent flight home and recoup quickly! Love ya.

(And just so everyone knows 25 days until Christmas!!!)

Just Thankful

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun! I think the food tastes better when you actually do the cooking. This was my first year cooking and hosting for thanksgiving. I made that sweet pie from scratch! I am not a huge pie fan but that was freaking good ;) Alan said it was the best pie he had ever had...but he may be biased. The fact that I served it to him warm and with a scoop of ice cream may have swayed him as well. The little things on top are suppose to be Christmas trees. It was also my first time cooking a turkey, and that turned out yummy too. (See pictures below)
My sister is thankful for PJ's. She wore them all day! We watched Christmas movies all day and cooked, so she just stayed comfortable. Funny how different we are, I would rather look all cute and she is just chill and like pshhh I'll stay in my pajama's. This time last year she was sick on Thanksgiving and little did we know that she was getting very very sick. I am thankful that she isn't sick anymore! I love this girl.

I think it may be a problem! I obviously know how to spell thanksgiving...but for some reason I rush ahead on holidays. We made "our first Christmas" ornament a couple of years ago and I spelled Christmas wrong on it too (No "t"). My family especially a 16 year old who shall remain unnamed thinks it hilarious.

Meet Frank...my first turkey. He was a yummy turkey! I usually don't like thanksgiving food that much, but this year was fun. I like cooking, I think this made me like the food better. I brined this turkey! I did some turkey research and made up my own recipe for the brine. Oh the wonders of wiki how. It actually made a huge difference though. There wasn't a dry piece on him. (Oh yeah I know you like my morning hair, ehhh?)

This is him all cooked and ready to go. Of course my first thanksgiving couldn't be without a hiccup. So.... do you see it? behind the orange bowl? It is the sweet potatoes, you know the kind with marshmallows on top? Well apparently marshmallows don't like fan ovens (do you have those in the US?) or something because the marshmallows exploded all over my oven! Luckily they were the last thing I was heating up so I didn't need to cook anything else in my marshmallow oven.

OK here's the Thankful list!

• I am thankful for being saved!!! First and foremost.
• I really am thankful for this sanctification process even though it really hurts sometimes.
• I am so thankful for Alan, that I have a wonderful husband who loves the Lord and it shows.
• I am thankful for our families
• I am thankful for my friends new ones in Oxford, and old ones in America. I miss you guys so much!
• I am thankful for our phone! So I can talk to those old friends! (also facebook, skype, and email)
• I am thankful it's Christmas time!!!
• ....and I am thankful that I have to die to myself in order to live for Him!