Prayers

Please be praying for Travis and all of the Dickson family. At some point yesterday is Grandmother was admitted to the hospital with Congestive Heart Failure. Because of our lack of conversations with Travis' side of the family we don't know very many details. We just know she is bad shape, and the doctor has told Travis' aunt to inform the kids so that they could say their last goodbyes. Travis has not had a chance to see his grandmother in some time. I will keep you all posted as we hear what is going on. Until then please be praying for them in this hard time.

Happy Late Valentines Day

Yesterday, was Valentines day. We didn't really do anything grand. We got up and went to church, and then came home and had family over for lunch. My dad, brother, uncle, and cousins are all gone on a goose hunt. So when they left their wives alone for Valentines day I thought I would pick up the slack and make their day! Well Friday night I decided to have mom and Aunt Sandy over for lunch, but that wasn't enough. I just thought it wouldn't be fair if I didn't invite Grandmother and Granddad as well. So they all agreed to join us! We quickly came home from church and started lunch. It was so much fun to have everyone here and talk and share a meal. When we were done, mom, aunt sandy, and myself went to the mall to do some shopping. No it wasn't your typical Valentines day, but it was still fun none the less.

I did realize that as of this Valentines day, me and Travis have officially celebrated every holiday together for the first time! Since he was gone the first year of our marriage, we had to make up for it during the second year. And we finally did it! Every holiday has been celebrated!!! Now we are looking forward to our 2 year anniversary coming up in a couple of weeks!!!!!

Happy Birthday Dewy!

That's right! Dewy turns 2 years old today. I know, most of you don't care. But it is exciting for us. We didn't do much obviously, but she did get a can of wet dog food, and 2 bones which were gone in the time it takes you to read this! And the best part, at least for her was Kyle came and visited her. Actually, he came to play video games with Travis, but she was thrilled to see him none the less. We love her, and are happy we have had her for almost 2 years, (that comes next month!)

We need your votes!

We really do! The lady who did our engagement/wedding photos and our Christmas card photos is running a contest. They picked several of their favorites shoots they nominated them. We were one of the ones that were picked! YIPEE! So we need everyone to vote, you can vote once a day. And it goes till the end of February. All you have to do is go to her blog which is

http://www.stephedwardsphoto.blogspot.com/ and then vote at the end. We appreciate it so much! Thanks, and don't forget to vote everyday!

Can you believe it is February already. Wow, time really does fly! Nothing much has really been going on here at our place.

Travis- well he works and has been working really hard on trying to get all the paperwork finished so that we can go active duty. We had hoped to be moved by now, but it looks like we will be here through the end of the month or even until next month. But we are trying to remind ourselves on a daily bases that this is all in God's hands and we must trust him.

Me- like Travis I am always working! Well, not always, but alot. We both are spending lots of time trying to soak up our nephews, and Brandi! We love spending time with them all. And Zach and Wyatt are just so darn cute. We are going to be sooooo soooo sad to see them go back. It's just way to far.

Dewy is the same as always. Except she seems to be loving on me more than usually. I think we might be hitting a milestone in her life. I honestly think she has hit a new level of calmness. Now if you have ever met her you know she is a energetic dog. But lately she seems to have calmed down a little. Now she still has her moments of fun runs, but has also become so much more snuggly. Which of course is my favorite thing! She will soon be 2 years old. It's hard to believe that we rescued her almost 2 years ago! We love her.

We are just go through life working and chilling with the family. Hopefully I will get back into posting more stuff then I have the last month. Brandi is just so darn distracting! But we love her

WOW!

It has been so long since I have posted anything new. Maybe that is because we have been so busy with Brandi and our awesome nephews here. Or maybe it's because there is just nothing overly exciting going on. Since the last post we have brought in the New Year, gone to the mountains, and spent numerous hours laughing, shopping, and just hanging out with the family!

New Years was a blast. We spent most of the night at mom and dad's house. With the entire Bumbalough side of the family. The little ones went down, and then decided to wake up just in time to join us for the arrival of the new year.

I do have a bunch of pictures from the last few weeks that I will eventually get to post. As soon as I find time! Travis has been working hard to get our active duty paperwork finished. As far as we can tell (what we have been told) this Wednesday will mark the end of our part. It will be finished and then sent up and we will just be waiting on the Marine Corps to send us orders. But I am not sure I have full faith in that. It has taken us so long to get here, that I am sure that some one along the way will find some thing that we didn't do and we will be postponed again! Please, just pray that that is not the case, and that we get our orders soon.

Since the new year began, our friends also had their first baby! A little boy, who is so cute. Anderson Glover was born on Jan. 7. Congratulations Melissa and Brandon!!!

Stay tuned, eventually I will get around to posting some pictures!

Finishing the year

I know, I know. I have been slacking big time on the blogging thing. I can't help it. We have been so busy since the week of Christmas. I feel like we almost haven't stopped. But of course now that Brandi is home we won't stop until we move or she leaves which ever comes first! Who knows. We are really excited about the coming year. It seems that some changes are in store for us! But we will see. I do have lots and lots of pictures to post. But I can't do it right now, because I have to go to work. I will try to do it before the year is up. So just hang on!