You would not dare!!!!

So I know everyone heard about the huge blizzard that hit Dallas a couple of weeks ago. Everyone posted pictures and did blogs. Well I am late because my computer was in the shop and I have finally gotten in back. So I decided to post a few pics and tell a few stories. I mean I can not NOT document this momentum occasion. I have way more pictures than this. I have like a million, but I don't want to run off all 2 of my readers with picture after picture. So I only posted the good ones.

If you know me, you know I am big kid. I always have been, always will be. I mean it is pretty sad when a 24 year old is pushing little girls out of the way at Disney Land to get a picture with Cinderella. But hey! give me a break! It was my first time there.

So anyways, after begging Milton all day to come play with me, he finally emerges from the house. At this point I have been outside all day. I love to play in the snow. I could not get enough of it.

He asked me if I knew how to make a really good snowball. I am like you mean besides the put a little in your hand and pat it until it is round kind of snowball? No he says...Like a huge snowball. At this point he proceeds to demonstrate how to make a HUGE snowball.

So then my smart self says "Throw it at something while I take a picture." To this he responds just like the following picture. I yell "You wouldn't DARE!!!!"

Well you can see that the pictures speak for themselves. After that Milton decides that it is too cold and goes back in the house. I proceed to make a snowman all by myself.

This is a picture of me pouting at the back door because milton would not come play with me or build a snowman. "Every party has a pooper that's why we invited you. Party Pooper. Milton Timoteo"

And then apparently Darla felt the need to show the snowman whose boss! She did not take kindly to it.

Enquire Exclusive-The Human Disguised As A Dog

You have heard it exclusively from here. A source is reporting that they know of human that is taking the form of not only a dog but a very cute dog. The source is requesting that the identity remain a secret. She goes onto to say "It is so bizzarre. Looking at this dog you would not suspect anything. It just looks like a little cute black dog. However, the more you observe the stranger it seems." Inquiring minds want to know....How could this have happened? Is it the result of some sick science experiment gone wrong? Or have Aliens landed on our planet?

we have obtained rare photos of the said human dog. We leave them with you to draw your own conclusion. Our conclusion is......She is one darn cute dog!!!

Beware of this creature at your local park and recreations. It appears so cute in person but we have been told that she just might lick you to death!!

Where have you been?

I know, I know! I am sorry. I just have been so busy. I can not even began to tell you where I have been or what I have been up to. I have not been on the computer forever. We have had family in and out. I just have been sooo busy. Where does the time go!!! Okay so I will post our Christmas photo that we sent to everyone one that wanted it. I know it is really really late but better late than never. Sorry for being a slacker but lets face I don't have anyone really read it except my mother and the few homeless people that I hold a gun to their head and make them comment. So I guess I am not really letting anyone down.

Someone felt that they were too good to take a picture!!!!

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

We Blew it Up this Year

Sorry I could not really think of a title and I wanted something more creative than "Our Halloween" We did all kinds of things for Halloween this year. We were very festive. I already showed you that we went to a pumpkin patch and corn maize for Halloween. I would like to show you the rest of the festivities as well as my Halloween decorations.

So this past Monday was family home evening. A night we dedicate to having family time with a little spiritual thought and something fun. So of course with it being Halloween we carved a pumpkin and I made carmel apples for refreshments. Unfortunely I did not get a picture of the apples but I was told by a friend that they were the best carmel apples they had ever tasted. Move over Martha Stewart! Here is the end result of our pumpkin. Sorry the picture is blurry but I wanted to get in glowing and the only way to do that was in the dark with no flash which equals blurry picture.

Then on Friday night Ashley came in for the weekend. We went to dinner and a Haunted House. It was suppose to be the 2nd Scariest Haunted House in America according to MSN. Now I get scared really easily. I get scared just being in line at a Haunted House but I did not get scared once. We were pretty disappointed but it was still fun to go out with Ashley and Ket. Unfortunely no pictures again

Thenext night was Halloween and we all decided to dress up. My mom asked why I did not put up any pictures of my house. I told her the decorations pretty much look the same as last year but at the last minute I decided to run out and take some pictures because I knew they would be put away by the next morning.

After I got home from work I volunteered Ashley and Ket to carve one more pumpkin for me.

Here is their finished result

Then it was time to change into our costumes. Usually I try to get creative with our costumes but this year I did not even think of them until the day for Halloween. I did not think we were going to dress up but we all decided to. Ashley was Rosie the Riveter (sp?) and Ket was Micheal Jordan

And..... At the last minute I got our costumes and they actually had a theme to them. So I found this kit at Wal-Mart that was a punk rocker kit that was like $5. I went to try and get it the night before but they were all gone. Well my husband being the sweet guy he is went to another Wal-Mart while I was at work and found one for me. Then I went to Walgreens and found a Pirate kit of Milton for $3 and as I was walking out I saw a princess kit for Darla. So does anyone see a theme? We all started with the letter P!!!!

YoHo Yo Ho I Pirate's life for me!!

At first Darla was pretty mad that I made her dress up. The princess would not cooperate.

But I finally got a picture of her.

We then sat outside and passed out candy while I blasted Thriller and Monster Mash on the speakers against some objections, but come on...Halloween is the only time you can really listen to those songs.