Sunday school Christmas party

Judah and I before the Sunday school Christmas partyI'm ready mom and I look like a lumberjack!

Check it out, we are elves!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1400401020

Getting into the Christmas spirit

I have been having such a hard time this year getting into the Christmas spirit. This is the first year that I am truly so grateful for Christ and his birth. All of the years prior I didn't have the relationship I have with Him now and it is just so incredible. So why do I feel so down about Christmas? My whole life before now Christmas was about the giving and receiving of gifts,trees decorated with ornaments,cold weather and snow(or lack thereof), and just the magical feeling of the season. I am having a difficult time forgetting all of that junk or not making it the most important thing. Money has been such a struggle for us and having a family is such a huge responsibility and I just let it get to me more than I should. I am so fortunate to have what I do and I take it for granted and my human nature just tells me I need more and more or as much as so and so has. So I started to take some action to get me moving along. We found out today that we are not going to be able to move until after Christmas so I started to get out some of our decorations and I'm hoping to get a little Charlie Brown tree sometime this week or next. I hung the stockings on the mantle ,hung some mistletoe and a wreath, and put some lights up around the house. I know now that these things and how much we can spend are not the important things anymore but they sure do make things fun! I am so appreciative of all of our amazing friends who love us no matter what and who also love Christ as much as we do. We have a bond that can never be broken.

Cassie's Weight Loss Endeavor

Okay, I am sick of not being able to fit into my pre-prego clothes! My goal is to be back to my pre-prego weight by Judah's first birthday which is January 21. I have 16.6 lbs to go. That is not my ultimate goal but it's a reasonable one for the time I am alotting. I'm going to add a ticker to the very bottom of the page so that everyone can see my progress. I am doing the Weight Watchers Core plan rather than the Flex plan that I did before. On the Flex plan I lost 30 lbs in 3 months and I'm hoping the Core plan will give me similar results. I started it this week and it seems much easier to follow. I will also be training for the Gate River Run starting Dec. 10 which should give me the exercise I need. Wish me luck and keep me accountable and check out my ticker each week!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Judah bouncing in the kitchen doorway while we cooked dinner.Judah playing in what his uncle Aaron calls junior Alcatraz
Judah and gamma Juanita (Cassie's mom)


Judah and Uncle Andy (Asa's brother)

Aaron, Asa's older brother
Terry, Asa's momAsa's Nana Matt and Juanita (Cassie's mom and brother)

Cass and her mom being silly as usual
Matt and his girlfriend Kelsey
Me and Jude
Juanita and her boyfriend Eddie
Asa

I hope everyone had a marvelous Thanksgiving! We hosted at our house this year and had a great time but we also had a couple of important family members missing from the table. My dad lives in NC and stayed up there, my older brother Andy and his wife Suely live in Brazil and my neice Veronica (Andy's daughter) lives with her mom. Asa's dad and oldest brother drive for Panther Trucking and they are on the road for the holiday. My younger brother and his girlfriend Kelsey stopped by to hang out for a while but ate dinner at her aunt's house. So all in all we had Ace, myself, Judah, my mom, her boyfriend, Asa's mom, his nana, and his brothers Andy and Aaron. Of course we stuffed ourselves silly and laughed a lot.

Jags vs. Saints

Jack and Judah Playing



Today we went to Dave and Allie's to watch the Jags vs. Saints game. It was really fun; we ate some pizza, played wii and had some cookie cake. We don't get to see the Hills family much so it was pretty awesome.

Judah Tressel

We went to Chicago Pizza to watch the Ohio State game on Saturday and we dressed Judah like Jim Tressel, the coach of Ohio State, who always wears sweater vests.