Our New Home-Sneak Peek!!!

The front! The back!
Very very soon I will have a much longer post, with updates of our lives from the last few months. I started posting back in November about our "adventure" and God has taken us through more than we ever dreamed or imagined. He is so faithful through good and bad. What an awesome God we serve! Can i get an amen?!?!

Be back soon I promise!

Photography Workshop!!!!!!!!!

My friend Taylor is offering a photography for beginners class in June! She is a very talented photographer, and if you are looking to improve some of your photography skills, you cannot go wrong with her as your instructor! You can see more about it or contact Taylor through her blog:

http://barefeetcreative.wordpress.com/

Happy Friday!!!!!!!!!

Move #2 in the Daniel & Tiffany Nomad Adventure

So after 3 months of Josh & Suzie's hospitality, we have decided to give them some space and privacy. We have had SO much fun with them. Really. There really weren't many dull or boring moments with that combination of people. Trust me. So here is a little "Ode to Josh & Suzie".
November-
You took us in for the last week of the month and even threw us a welcome party and bought me flowers! Y'all rock!
December-
We had family decorating night and made the house look beautifully festive!
We threw the Christmas party for our class at church! What a fun murder mystery night!
The guys got the girls hooked on Call of Duty
We celebrated Christmas!
January-
We rang in 2010 together and then slept alot the next day.
We did some other things that I can't remember. We did make alot of fires and watch TV
We went to the gym once.
February-
We celebrated my 27th birthday together!
Y'all helped nurse me back to health after getting my wisdom teeth out
Bathroom project-hope you like your new bathroom. We'll come hang that mirror one of these days!

Now we are at John and Bobbi's house for a couple/few weeks. I'm sure I will be blogging about that new part of our adventure soon. So far, we've only gone grocery shopping together.

Friends-Sappy post

I have great friends. I'll just start by saying that. Seriously, I am so amazed at the people that God has placed in my life over the span of 27 years. Sure there have been a few duds (let's skip over those), but for the most part, WOW. There are friends that have been friends since we were kids (or high school age-that's a kid right?), friends I met in college. Oh boy. College friends. They have loved me through some tough times. They have held me when I cried, and laughed with me until we peed a little. They have driven great distances to be with me when my dad (who I've been missing terribly lately)was sick or for his funeral. Man I can never repay them for that. AMAZING!
Then there are my friends that I have made after moving to Dallas. Oh goodness, these girls are equally special to me, just in the short time I've known them. I never thought I could be so blessed to have so many people that I could be so honest with and love and be loved no matter what.
I'm not sure why all of this has recently popped up in my mind. But it has, and I just wanted to write about them a little. Maybe it's because 2 of them have asked me to be present at the birth of their first child, or because I'm getting older and realizing this stuff. I don't know. But they are all very special to me.
So girls, if you are reading this know that I love you so much and thank about and pray often for y'all!

Why Does God Even Give us Wisdom Teeth????

I think wisdom teeth are a sick joke. When you have them, they rarely bother you, except for the occasional jaw bite (which only hurts for a couple of minutes) or in my case, bone loss in the jaw...whatever. When you have them out, it seems like bone loss would have been the better route to go. It's awful....AWFUL. Now, I wouldn't say the pain is awful...many people think the pain in the worst part. Not me. The pain hasn't been unbearable. In fact, I haven't even had to take anything stronger than advil or extra strength tylenol. The horrible, awful part is working around these new holes in your head or several days. It is so frustrating. I hate feeling like any bite of food (even the liquid foods) or any drink of anything I have is going to cause dry sockets or excessive bleeding, etc. I know I'm a HUGE weiner and probably no one feels sorry for me. That's OK. I just have to vent. Don't ask why I would voluntarily post these pictures for people to see, but I already, unknowingly posted one to facebook so I might as well just put them out there. This is what you have to look forward to when you get your wisdom teeth out people!

My personal favorite. SO HOT!

I have no recolection of taking these AT ALL! However, Daniel said the first thing I did when I got in the car was go for my phone, take pictures, and post one to facebook. Does that mean I have addiction if I'm doing these sorts of things while in an altered state of mind? Hmmmm...Hopefully it will get better soon.

A Blog for Doula stuff only

In an effort to keep personal things personal, and Doula stuff separate, I have created a blog specifically for updates on how the new adventure is going. I will probably put the funny stuff on this one to try and keep the other one a little more professional! But you know me, gotta have some funny!

If you want to see the other blog check it out at www.doulable.blogspot.com

This week is almost over! YAY! Except I'm having my wisdom teeth out tomorrow...BOOOO!
It'll probably be a low key kinda weekend full of soft foods and vicoden! Things are looking up already! :)

Me DOULA Oblongada

Pretty much, for the last few weeks, my life has been completely and utterly full of learing to become a Doula. I am so excited about where this is going.
All of that to say this...if you are looking for a good video to watch on natural childbirth, I might NOT go with "Gentle Birth Choices". The book is wonderful and I have learned alot from it. The video....oh, the video. It was comical. That's about all I can give it. My friend and I just sat and watched it and laughed.
It made people that choose natural, home, and/or water births look like complete weirdo wack jobs....and this was a video ADVOCATING those things. I think they need to make one using people like my friend Allison, or my sister, Mary. These two girls are gorgeous, well "groomed" and normal people. And my biggest plus for them is that they shave their armpits....yes that's right, one of the girls didn't even shave her armpits.....YUCK!!!!!
Anyway, I didn't want anyone to endure the 60 minutes of armpit hair, early 90's molestor glasses, shoulder pads, and beat poets, that me and B did!!