I know we are already in mid-January but let me jump back to December so I can get you guys caught up. December was full of friends and family. We were blessed by our angel when we received a gracious gift to help us through the holidays. If our angel is reading this, THANK YOU one hundred times over. To us "thank you" doesn't seem sufficient enough but we just don't know what else to say. You truly blessed us this Holiday. We had family come into town for Christmas...Chris's cousin surprised us all.
Story Line:
Chris's aunt always comes up for Christmas from down south. The family down south consists of Uncle Danny, Aunt Renee, David (lives in St. Louis), Michael (lives down south), and Sarah (still lives at home). This year it was only Aunt Renee and Sarah who came up...all the other boys were unable to come due to jobs. Well, Christmas Eve we had our family Christmas at Chris's grandma's house. Towards the end of the night, David walks in and totally surprises everyone (he's the one from St. Louis). David hasn't been able to come to Amarillo for Christmas for 2 years so he surprising us all was a great gift. Aunt Renee was totally blown away to see her son walk through that door. Of course the funny thing was that the entire evening Aunt Renee and David had been texting back and forth and I guess David had Renee thinking he was totally drunk and couldn't find his car. Of course that was a huge joke because he ended up walking through the front door just hours into their conversation. We had a wonderful Christmas being able to spend it with our family.
So that's my big Christmas story. You would've had to have been there because it was quite moving.
Chris is still working two jobs...like I said before in my blogs he is getting worn out. Last week he had the week off - minus Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - but we were able to enjoy four nights w/ Dad.
Bradley is going to be turning 4 years old in February. I already have his cake ordered and his party booked. I have everything planned so I don't stress out when it gets closer.
The beginning of January was a very rough one for us. We had made the decision to move out of our apartment due to the rent going sky high. We found ourselves a little house that we thought would be great for us. We signed the lease on January 1st, on January 2nd we found out from a neighbor that the house we were currently moving into had been raided by SWAT 2 weeks prior to us moving in. They found $12,000 worth of marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. We went straight to our landlord and discussed the situation at hand. We wanted out of our lease because we did not feel safe living at that house. Especially since Chris works nights and me and Bradley are home alone all the time. So long story short, we ended up being out a lot of money and we ended up moving out of that house 2 days after we moved some of our stuff into it a
nd found a different house. Throughout the following days after our fall out with the previous landlord, he has threatened us with suits and other ridicoulous things. He wouldn't give us our money back and overall was a complete jerk. We have now settled into our new home...it's small with a nice back yard which is something we haven't had before.
Well that's the most current update for now. Hopefully I can get better at this by keeping you guys updated. Here are 
some pictures...enjo
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PICTURES:
*Bradley helping mommy in the kitchen
**Bradley and my dad at Christmas
***Sir Bradley
