It is so ugly only a mother could love it

So we were invited to any ugly Christmas sweater party. It was are first. We were pretty excited. Not much to say but I will leave some pictures. The only thing that sucked (hey I can say that word it is MY BLOG) was that I got the ugliest sweater I could find at Goodwill but he is so good looking it still looked hot on him.

Early Christmas Gift

We apparently have an early Christmas gift. I was not aware of it, but I don't mind because I sure do like it. It completely caught me by surprise. I was in the kitchen and I turned around and there it was. As if it just magically appeared. Here is a picture of it:

So I decided to take a closer look. It was black and red and furry.

Oh wait!!! It is Darla. I am glad that she thinks that my Christmas tree skirt is her new bed. She has not taken up permanent residence there, which I guess is appropriate since she was born on Christmas Eve.

Apparently I am bothering her and her new palace.

Isn't he .....

Handsome?! Doesn't he look smart? I just had to put this up. This is Milton at a recent conference talking about the Ph.D program. I am sure that once he got there their numbers for the Ph.D program went way up!! I love it when he looks all professor like. He is so enthusiastic about life.

B is for Busy

It seems like I apolygize alot for my lack of blgs. I guess that is why I don't have this huge following. That is okay. I just want to make sure that I am blogging something. The Timoteo house has been so busy. Milton is finishing what looks like his last semester of course work for his Ph.D. That does not mean he is done by any means. He still has to take his comps and write his dissertation. But being the good wife that I am, I have been helping him anyway I can.

On top of this I have been finishing all of our paperwork, home study, inspections, and classes for adoption. I know this is news to some of you reading this. We have been keeping it quiet until we were further along in the process. So we are almost done with the process. It should be soon and I will let everyone know when we are license. I will have to tell the story about how we got to this decision in another blog. It is a really cool and long story, but know we know that Heavenly Father had his had in. The first question I get when people find out we are going through the adoption process is "When do you get him/her?" The answer is "we don't know." We don't know even who we are getting. We have to become completely licensed before they even look at us. So it is going to be a while. Don't worry though I will let everyone the second we get a child!!

So I will just update everyone on what has been going on in our household for the past month.

Milton knows how much I get into the holidays. So I came home one day and caught him doing this:

I was so excited!!! He was hanging up Christmas decorations. We did not do as much as we did last year but I actually think it looks better. It is cleaner. It looks really pretty. Don't worry pictures soon!!

I had to work Thanksgiving day. Don't worry though Milton got invited to two Thanksgivings. However we did have our Thanksgiving the next day. I could not not do Thanksgiving. The leftovers are the best. I want to show a few pictures of my table. Ashley ,my sister, decorated it. We had her boyfriend and her over for Thanksgiving. We were really glad to have her. We have a great time with them

The napkins I recently got as a birthday gift from pottery barn. The table cloth is a heirloom from my mother. They are from Italy, where I was born. The plates I got when I was married from my next door neighbor. She was a hoarder. She offered the dishes to me for $50 if I would come and dig them out. By the time I got done there were over 250 peices. They are high quality dishes. She claimed they were Saks Fifth Avenue dishes. I need to research that though. The silver bowl and candle sticks were wedding presents. I loved to look at the stuff and teh memories they hold. It was a very special Thanksgiving to look these things and know how much I am loved. It was great that Ashley pulled out these pieces.

We dog watched this week for one of the sweetest dogs I have ever met. This dog never barks, always listen, and brings such calm and peace in whatever household it comes into. We loved having Lucy at our house and we are so grateful that we have a family here that we can trade dog watching services with. I do want to leave you with soem great pictures. After Thanksgiving we were all tired and laying around. I look over and see this.

It is so cute. However, I do not want to leave a blog without posting a picture of my baby. I got a cheap little tripod for my camera and I have been making her pose for pictures like crazy.

Doesn't she look happy!!! Sorry for the long blog but I knew that if I broke them up into several blogs that I would get tired and probably not finish them