a few of the things we were blessed with...

My parents bought us this sweet knife set and block!! They are so generous to us.

Ok, these are awesome. Rebekah and Brian MADE these for us!! It's wall art to hang in our bedroom. That is really the only room I haven't decorated much, and I haven't been able to find anything I really love to hang on the walls. So Rebekah saw something similar to these online and decided to make them herself. How Cool are they?!

My Parents gave Steve this book. It just so happens to be one of my favorites! yeah! He's looking forward to reading it as well :)


The SGC cookbook from my mom. Steve was excited about this one.

Rachael gave us two of these sweet frames - also for our bedroom! We'll be set!



Steve's clothes from me - except the sweater...that's from my parents.

My clothes from Steve and from my mom. Yay! Been needing some new clothes.

An 'our first christmas together 2007' ornament from my parents! Adorable!

Needless to say, we were extremely blessed this Christmas!! I am so thankful for all of the gifts we received, but much more so for my amazingly wonderful husband and my sweet, loving family. I am so glad we were able to spend Christmas together! Family is a beautiful thing. I thank God for placing me in a loving Christian home and for blessing me with a man who loves his Savior more than anything and loves me so much better than I deserve. I am so excited to build a family together that will, Lord willing, love and serve their Savior and each other for generations to come.

catching up...

Sorry the posts have been few and far between. I know our blog has been a bit boring lately. But now that the craziness of finals and Christmas are over, things should be slowing down a bit and getting back to normal...hopefully I'll be better about posting.

December has been a great month. School wrapped up for me around the 14th with my last final. It was a good semester all in all. I enjoyed all of my classes and got decent grades :) But I'm definately glad it's over with only one more to go. WOOHOO!

Steve's parents, Bob and Deb, flew down from NH on Wednesday the 13th. They came to celebrate an early Christmas with me, Steve and Brian. We had a very enjoyable five days with them. Their visit included a Thanksgiving meal, Steve taking his Dad to work to show him the ropes, Brian taking them around town to show them the sites, hanging out and playing games at the apartment, a traditional Crabb Christmas Eve dinner: Lasagna, and a Christmas celebration which concluded with "ear candling". You know where you stick a long, funneled candle thing in your ear and let it burn down and then rip it open to see how much ear wax it collected. Yep. That's what we did. It was interesting to say the least. (the pic above is us with the ear candles)

They left on the 17th. We had a great time hanging out with Dad and "Beano" (a name that the Crabb kids gave their mom years ago and has stuck around - don't ask. So that's what we call her.) We love you guys!!

The week that followed was spent mainly doing all my Christmas shopping. I wasn't too stressed because I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted to get for all family members. Thank goodness, that all went smoothly. I had to battle the malls and Target a good many times, but got it all accomplished with time to spare. We had a WONDERFUL christmas with my family. Steve and I got up Christmas morning, showered, and then ate sweet rolls, coffee and OJ for breakfast (a Myhill tradition). We then opened up our gifts from each other. Steve went all out. He got me a couple sweaters, a sweat shirt, a hat, and a couple things I don't think I'm allowed to mention ;) He is SOO sweet and thoughtful. I got him several shirts, a pair of nice khaki pants (he's ruined all his other ones at work) boxers, candy, and I printed out one of his favorite pictures of me to keep in his truck - which I enclosed in a little love letter :) After our lovely morning we gathered all of our gifts for my family and headed over to their house for round two. We had a great time sharing gifts and then feasting over a table of delicious food. It was a great Christmas celebration!! My family was SO extremely generous to us. We got many great gifts. I'll probably do another post on those because there are some pretty cool ones that I want to show pictures of.

Today it poured rain all day long, so Steve didn't have to work! It was so nice to be able to spend the whole day with him. We ended up running errands together for most of the day - hitting up the malls for a couple returns/exchanges and then bringing coffee to a couple of the managers at his dealerships. We had so much fun hanging out. We're just chillin at home tonight. I have some poppyseed chicken in the oven and we're going to do some reading and cuddling :)

I am so thankful for this time to relax and relflect on the birth of my Savior Jesus Christ!! I hope you all are able to do the same!

tree time!

We got our Christmas tree last night! It was so fun to go and pick it out together, haul it back in our little Chevy Cavalier, and set it up in our crowded apartment :) Hehe. We got the perfect one. It makes our home SO cozy. I love it!

I was such a fun night. I, unfortunately, had been studying all day and most of the evening for finals, so we took a break and went searching for our tree. Then we brought it back and Steve set it up and strung the lights on it as I got out the ornaments and started deckin it out! And of course you can't decorate your Christmas tree without some good ole' hot cocoa.

One of the newest additions to our ornament collection :)

watch this video...

Here's the link to a youtube video of a drama that was done to the Lifehouse song "Everything." It is really powerful! I started watching it thinking it would be some cheesy interpretive thing...but I was wrong. It brought me to tears! It is about God creating man, the fall and redemption. Watch it - you won't be sorry. It's only 5 minutes or so. To me this proves that drama can be very effective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUVSbD9NF8

study night...

Rach is over here hanging out at our place tonight. She's been staying with us since Saturday since my parents left for Arkansas. She is flying out tomorrow, but she didn't want to stay home alone. So we're having a grand 'ole time! She has a big midterm in anatomy tomorrow, so we're having a study night tonight. I'm doing some homework and some blogging :) Steve is just doing some computer stuff...and Rach is studying like crazy! We had some yummy chicken marinara for dinner and now we're all sippin some chai. One of those cozy fall nights...all we're missing is a glowing fireplace.

two years to the day...

It was two years ago exactly that Steve and I met!

God has blessed me more than I could have imagined with the best husband in the world!!

How thankful I am for his love and amazing care for me! Each day is more wonderful than the last. I am so thankful for my best friend and greatest love.


Well today has been the best kind of Saturday...the kind where you don't do much at all but relax and enjoy yourself. It began with Steve's bible study at the church this morning. While he was gone, I got some cleaning done as well as made chili and cornbread for lunch. Brian (Steve's brother) came over and had lunch with us and hung out for a while. Then Steve and I took a nap and then went shopping this afternoon for a coat for me. I found one that I love at PacSun. It's exactly what I wanted. I didn't really have any school that I had to get done today so we've just been hanging out this afternoon, watching football, etc. We are now about to leave for the singles meeting at church, so I gotta run. Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

2007 Integrity Fall Review Party (80s Style!)

Saturday night we went to the Integrity fall review party. The theme was the 80s...almost everyone dressed up and oh my goodness there were some hilarious outfits. I only snapped a few pictures so you won't get the full effect, but some people went all out. Scott Hughes won best guy costume (I think) and Karen Delp won best girl. They looked great. Augie made all the food and it was SO good as always. It was a fun night of hanging out and reviewing God's faithfulness over the past year and then looking forward to the future.

This one came out really blurry (as if you can't tell) but I went ahead and put it on here so you can see Kris Johns mullet! It was hysterical!

update time...(yeah, we're still alive)

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Our life is pretty busy right now with school and work and church and family and friends (but isn't everybody's??). It's amazing how fast a week flies by.

I am so excited that there are only a little over 4 more weeks of school left (including finals!)!!!! Yay! The semester has flown by, despite my grim outlook in the beginning when it seemed that it would never be over. I am, however, doubting my ability to get through another semester. It's definately going to have to be the grace of God that pushes me to the end. My motivation is dwindling big time. But the good news is my Savior's strength and empowering grace is far greater than any of my efforts! Thank goodness for the spirit's work in my life.
I will register for the spring semester next week. I think the plan is to take 18 credits so I can finish up and graduate in May. In order to do that I will have to take two night classes (which I'm definately not looking forward to), and the other 4 classes will be spread out so that I'll have to be over in Norfolk every day again. I was really hoping to work it out so that I could do just MonWedFri or TueThur, but alas, that won't be the case. Becauses of this crazy schedule, I won't be teaching lessons. I will miss it, but I'm relieved to not have to work lessons into an already full week. Steve has released me from this so I can just focus on school. I'm so thankful for his support and encouragement!

Steve is enjoying working for Integrity. God has been blessing him as he has been faithful to work hard and invest into his accounts. I'm so proud of him...he has such a great work ethic and takes it very seriously. We are thankful for this company whose goal and mission in the work place is to bring glory to the name of Christ. We have the Integrity Fall party tonight (80s theme), so I'll probably be posting pictures of that. Should be fun.

We are definitely looking forward to the holiday season! Thanksgiving will be a little different this year since my whole family will be in Arkansas visiting my mom's family. Steve and I will be celebrating here as our own little family :) It will be a fun, relaxing time. We'll spend Christmas here as well...probably doing something with my family. Steve's parents are coming for a week in early December which we're looking forward to. I'm glad we'll get to see them during the holidays even though we can't make it up to New Hampshire.

Well, there's a little peek into our lives as of late...I will try to do more posting when I can. I now have to get back to writing a paper on Vietnam for my Cold War history class :)