This was taken on December 28th after

Walt spoke at his church in Ripley.

He did a fantastic job!

This was taken the day after Christmas in Ripley. Notice my necklace Walt surprised me with for Christmas! It's beautiful and so me! I told him he probably wouldn't be able to top it!

He we ALL are on Christmas Eve. We sang at my parent's

church for Vesper Service.

This is our lovely Christmas tree at my house. Mom loves the

peppermint look and don't tell her but I love it too!

Well I'm home now and have been since mid December actually. We had a lovely Christmas and I got to see lots of my family and friends. I met a lot of Walt's family as well and they are such nice people.

I just got off work, yes work! I have three jobs and am staying super busy. I love it though; for the past eight years I haven't known anything other than being busy. I'm working in the church nursery on Sunday mornings and some Wednesday nights. The kids are so precious and love playing with PlayDoh almost as much as I do ;o) I'm also working at Snappy's, it's a pizza buffet and is super yummy! I get to eat for free every time I work so you know I'm taking full advantage of that..... And last but not least I started training this week as a server at The Opera House. It's a lovely restaurant here in downtown Martin and has been restored. It's beautiful inside and has wonderfully amazing food. I'm learning my way around and also learning how to be a server as well, I'm a little nervous but those nerves will pass soon I'm sure! I always know that God will take care of me in His own time and all three of these jobs came in a matter of two weeks. That makes me smile!

Walt and I are still doing great! I still wonder how I got so lucky to have a guy as great as he is! He definitely treats me like a princess everyday. We had so much fun around Christmas time. We went to see TransSiberian Orchestra a few days before Christmas with our best friends Bradley and Julianne. It was a sight to see. The light show was amazing and the music was really good too. I don't know that we will make a tradition of it though. It was a REALLY long show and Walt isn't really into "musicals" especially three hour ones! We were planning on going to the last Titans home game but my sister got home from Iraq the night before and I wanted to see her. Then we got free box tickets to the Tennessee Men's Basketball game in Nashville but we were "iced" in and weren't able to get out. So I got to see my "musical" but poor Walt couldn't go to either of his sports events he had planned. I was really sad about that :( I'll definitely have to make it up to him...he informed me yesterday that Cub's Spring Training starts in approximately 20 days! So there's my hint haha


I'm really enjoying being home this semester. I'm sure this break before clinicals hit will be greatly appreciated once I start back. I'm trying not to get too spoiled and will start studying soon enough! Walt got hit yesterday with lots of work and labs and studying so this will be a good test for us not to see each other every day like we have been :(

I'm about to start cleaning...my car looks like a tornado hit, my room is just cluttered and the bathroom needs a once over as well. So I'm about to hit that. Job #2 starts in less than three hours! Yay!!!

Prayer Requests

• The Batchelors are in Ukraine and have met three boys that they would love to adopt.
• Ashley is in the ER right now with stabbing abdomen pain that has been going on for two days.
• Shannon just got back to Kansas. Pray that the adjustment from Iraq will go smoothly.
• Cliff just started his first semester of college.
• Bradley is traveling to Houston for an internship with NASA. Pray for him and Julianne's traveling mercies.
• Walt has another tough semester and is waiting to hear about internships for the summer.