turkey dinner and the parents!

Well Jerry and Rosann left yesterday....and Jodi came to see us last night!! I love all the visitors. Jerry and Rosann were a little delayed getting to Chicago, due to weather, and then their flight to Wichita, was cancelled, but luckily they were able to get a flight back, to arrive around 9:30. Just in time for the bad weather, I hear! Wichita, is getting more snow than we are. We are supposed to get some tomorrow, but I'm not sure how much. It has been raining all day today, and it is supposed to get really cold this afternoon, so hopefully it doesn't get to slick.
Well this post is going to be a lot of pictures again! I want everybody to see, the Thanksgiving dinner, Rosann and I made. It was so much fun!! I had never cooked a turkey before....and surprisingly, I was rather grossed out. Considering, my job...I'm not sure why I was grossed out, but I didn't touch it....until it was cooked :). I am also posting the final Christmas decorations that we put up!! Since people can't come over and see them...I drove Jeremy nuts, taking so many pictures :)


Jeremy and I by the big tree at Jefferson Point,
in Ft. Wayne










Our turkey!! All 21 lbs.








Here I am, basting. Well not really basting,
but removing the basting juice, to make gravy.








Rosann, is making the gravy









Our mashed potatoes. I definitely mashed
them the easy way :)






Rolls (my favorite part)








This was our $1 stuffing, from the store.
It was actually very very good!








Jeremy and I's greenbean
casserole. We make this all
the time!








Jerry sharpening the knife.
Getting ready to carve!









Jeremy carving the turkey!










Me TRYING to help him :)







Here is the whole meal! We had to
leave it all on the counter, there was no
room at the table for it.






The meal!









Family dinner! :)








Some Christmas decorations







More decor!









Jeremy and I on our walk
around the campus.










Dinner at Pizza Junction.








Pizza Junction again...








The apartment, all decked out!









Another view...










Yet, another angle :)








And from the door...








My centerpiece :)








The last one!





Hope you all enjoyed these!! You can probably see, why I drove Jeremy crazy. These are actually quite narrowed down :). Since you can't all be here, you can see pictures! Can't wait to see you all when we get home!!

...on to christmas :)

Jerry and Rosann arrived yesterday evening. We had a good day today, but the highlight of my day was buying our Christmas tree!! It was on sale at Wal-Mart for $20!! That was even more exciting. So we went and bought that this evening, and set it up, while listening to Christmas music :). It was nice. If you can't tell, I am very excited about Jeremy and I's first Christmas together, and getting to decorate our own place. Hope you enjoy some of the pictures.



Rosann helping with the tree!







Jeremy and I posing for the pic, since we missed the first opportunity :)








Putting on the tree topper! It is a little top heavy :)








Ahhh.....












Another angle...










Pretty tree :)












Shining Star!











Having fun...








Getting tired of these yet?? ;)








Yea!!!












The whole tree :)

Thanksgiving...

Jeremy and I had a pretty good day today. Since we couldn't be with family :(, his professor was nice enough to invite us over to have thanksgiving with them. It was us, and a couple other guys from the film department that couldn't go home for the holiday. So we went over there around 2 for a late lunch. We took green bean casserole, and cream cheese corn (the two things we are pretty decent at making :). They made a turkey, had apple pie, pumpkin pie, and yummy apple cider. I ate too much of the pies. I was doing just fine, until dessert :).

Jeremy and I then came home, to find out that I got called off work tonight. Not to many people want to have babies on Thanksigiving. I doubt it will pick up much this weekend, which isn't that great because I am scheduled the next two nights. One of Jeremy's friends was here for a while this evening playing video games with him. Poor guy is staying at the Super 8 here in town, because the university kicks all the students out of the dorms over thanksgiving break. Which I think is a horrible thing to do, because it is definitely not that long of a break for people who live far away to go home! One of his other friends slept in his car last night, because he couldn't be in the dorms. If I had known that, he would have been staying here, but too late now :).

Jerry and Rosann get here tomorrow night. We are really excited to have them here. At least we will get to see a little bit of family over the holiday. They don't leave until Wednesday, so we will have a good visit with them. We are going to have a thanksgiving dinner with them. I bought a turkey the other day, so that will be fun to cook that with his mom! We will probably do that Monday evening.

Jeremy and I set up the camera to take a couple pics of ourselves today, while we were kind of dressed nice :). There are also some pictures of the Indiana snow!!! Enjoy!!

The Fountain

"The Fountain". Good film. You should go see it. It definitely is a "Jeremy" type film, but I think I am starting to like those (not sure how I feel about that). It was kind of odd... after this movie Jeremy and I talked about the different camera angles, how they shot certain scenes, cinematography, and stuff like that. I feel like I am actually starting to understand why he likes some of the movies he does. This film actually made me think..and I usually do not like movies that make me think, but this one I did. I usually call these kinds of films confusing and mind-boggling, and Jeremy finds them, intriguing and thought provoking. I am only beginning to see his side :).
There is a lot of symbolism, that I still do not understand, but it was so well done. This was a beautiful film of love, life, death, eternity, dedication, desperation....although there are a few different stories going on at the same time, it all flows very smoothly. Anyways....there is my attempt to have a somewhat professional critique ;) Ha, ha. All that to say, I think you should see it, and I thought it was time for me to update on something. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!! We will be missing all of you, and wishing we were there celebrating with you, but we will see you at Christmas. Jeremy's parents are getting here on Friday of this week, and will be here until Wednesday, so that will be GREAT to have them here!! We are really excited for that.

Jeremy's work

I just wanted to show off some of Jeremy's work that he has been doing. He has been learning how to use the professional version of Adobe Photoshop, and he had to edit a picture of himself and remove all the "imperfections" I thought he did a really good job. And trust me, compared to everyone else in his class, I think his was the best. I could be a bit biased, but some of those people actually looked worse after photoshopping themselves. This is a before and after picture. (I wanted to get them side by side, but it didn't work.) Jeremy removed some of his freckles and the redness in his face. He shaved himself (although I don't know why he cannot seem to do that in real life ;). He slimmed his neck down a little, made his eyes bluer, and teeth whiter. He showed me how he did all this and it is sooo easy!! Now I see why every picture you see of a celebrity, they look so dang good. Thats why we have this skewed image of how we are supposed to look. Because but literally a click of a button you can make yourself skinnier, and tanner, etc....

This other picure, I took of him while he was driving to Ft Wayne, one day. He was TRYING to be funny, by acting like he was sleeping :). Well it came in handy for his project in class. He photoshopped in, one of my pictures from Hawaii underwater. I thought he did a good job! He even made the reflection in the side mirror. Well I just had to brag a little. Hope you all enjoy these! :)

Jecinta

This is Jecinta Waithira Njuguna. She is 5 years old and lives in Nachu, a town north of Nairobi in Kenya Africa. Jeremy and I are sponsoring her through Compassion International. I wanted everyone to see a picture of her, because we are so excited about this opportunity!! When you think of it, please remember her in your prayers.

Since Jeremy and I haven't found a home church, we had been praying about where to give our money to. This was laid on our hearts. We are supporting her monthly, and also supporting Compassion's AIDS Initiative program, since she lives in an AIDS affected community. This is going to give her the opportunity to hear the gospel and learn about Jesus. This will also give her an opportunity to receive an education. We are going to be writing her letters frequently, and someone from the Compassion organization that is based in that area, will read it to her, and help her write us back.

Anyways, we just wanted to show everyone another area of our lives that is very important to us! Please support us in praying for her, when you think of it! :)

I haven't known what to post about, because not much has been going on. Oh! We have had a stray cat running around. Which has been quite annoying for me. Jeremy has kind of liked it, because he likes cats. Me...not so much. So it gets thrown back outside everytime I see it. Then I noticed tonight, that our neighbors are trying to be nice to it, and have a bowl of milk sitting out by their door!! That is not going to get it go away!! Anyways.... Jeremy and I might have compromised on the kind of dog we want to get. Although can't get until we leave Huntington. He doesn't want a big dog, and I don't want a small dog, so I think we have compromised on a Beagle. Kind of medium size, but isn't yippy are barking all the time like small dogs. Unfortuntely our apartments don't allow pets, so this will probably be a purchase once we are back in Wichita.
Right now, I am in the lab at school with Jeremy, because he has to finish up his Public Service Announcement. I would be at work right now, but I got a call from our house supervisor at work saying that OB is closed, due to there being no patients. Isn't that lovely? So I am on call! Again! :) It wouldn't be so bad, if I wasn't the sole money-maker. So if you all could be praying for that. We cannot afford for me to continue to be downstaffed. And there really isn't anything I can do about there being no patients. And they must not need help on any of the other units, other wise they would float us. Anyways.....
These are some pictures of Jeremy and I in the lab. Doesn't he look cute with his headphones on? :) I tried to look cool with the headphones, but I just can't pull it off like he can :). The pics aren't that great because all I had to take them with was my phone.

Here is something new. Pretty sure I might be lactose intolerant. Which is NOT good for me!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE cheese. Milk isn't too bad, because I don't like it, but I love things made with it!! And I love cheese and other dairy products. So this week I have been trying to go without eating any dairy. I started this on Friday, and I have felt much better since then. So if anybody has good non-dairy recipes you would like to give me, they would be much appreciated, because there is nothing in our freezer than doesn't have cheese on it!! You know, the easy fast to cook meals seem like they all have cheese!!

Well we are still on the church hunt. We went somewhere new today. We both really enjoyed it, which is definitely progress. This church is called The Good Shepherd Church (United Brethren Chruch). My friend Becky from work, and her husband go there, and they are both our age. So it was nice to be around a couple our age for a little bit. Everybody there was very very accepting and wonderful to new people. So we liked that :). I have never really been in the shoes of being a "new" person at a church. Now I realize how important it is to help them feel welcome. It really changes your whole experience there. But we both enjoyed the worship, the message and the people! So I think we are making progress. We still have a couple other churches we would like to visit. But this one today, is a possible keeper :) We were asking Becky and Travis if this church had a group for young married's and they said that they didn't but that they would be interested in starting a couples small group with us, if we were interested. So we both liked that idea also.