October through January-Sorry it's been so long!

First of all, I got another job! Here is a picture of my desk and reception area.

I got sick of the blonde hair and dyed it back brown again. What do you think??

Dave continues to be working for WLIO TV, and becoming a small town celebrity!

We had a tiny Christmas away from our families, but we were happy that we got so many little gifts from everyone:) Thank you!!

David, playing with our new Dart Wars Nerf guns. YEAH!

The snow:/ It was great at first, but it's really scary to drive to work in every day and we can't even make a snowman out of it because it's too powdery.

I'm teaching a 5-6 year old Sunday School Class at Church, and this is what one of my girls wrote to me. So sweet!

And of course....ANTS! We have tons of ants in our apartment. There is no food for them anywhere, but they swarm and swarm everywhere...especially wherever the carpet ends. We think there may be millions under the rest of the carpet. Every once in awhile we'll find an ant crawling on us in bed or in the bathroom. UGGGH!!!

So there ya go, we're having lots of adventures but miss home terribly:( Oh, and Happy New Year too:)

My favorite thing-another clean slate!

I love the endless possibilities of a new year...

Dave and I started reading a book that my Mother in Law got us for Christmas, called "debt-proof your marriage". It has totally inspired us, especially since we already have such a great head start. It feels great to know that you are being smart with your money.

After reading a few chapters, I also became inspired to "get out of debt" in other ways. For example, I've had more and more projects piling up in my "To Do Someday" pile, that I hardly know where to begin. So yesterday I pulled out my pile, made a list on paper of all the projects to be finished in them, and got started. It feels so good to check some of them off. And my New Years Resolution for the year is to work on any project I want for just one hour every day. Imagine how much I will get done by consistently working on something, instead of pulling it out every 6 months or so and trying to get it all done!

I figure it's the smartest thing to do to try and get all the projects I want done before we have any kids. That even includes trips we have wanted to take-going on another cruise, visiting New York City and Chicago while we're close by...maybe going out of the country for the first time in my life:)

I've felt very ambitious these past couple of days since the New Year! Hopefully that will drive me to do big things in 2010:)