From Texas...

Well, we are here and settling in.  We are mostly unpacked.  James found us a nice place on some beautiful acreage that we are renting.  The weather is WONDERFUL so far.  I love the absence of snow.  The kids have lots of fun exploring our land.  The other day we went on a walk in our "yard" and found a skull...I think it was from a deer.  Also saw a deer running through our front yard.  We saw a hawk right above our head.  There were also some mussel shells by our pond (from our pond?).   We even watched a spider capture a fly in our window.  Charles was fascinated; Emma was grossed out.  I think it is a kid's wonderland.

Cute saying by Charles:  As we were driving down here, we were probably about half an hour away from reaching our new home and the sun was setting.  Charles commented, "The sun casts a rosy glow."  How cute is that?

We were able to have Christmas with my family, which was nice.  The biggest bummer was that James started getting sick on Christmas Eve and it was in full force by mid-day on Christmas.  He's still not feeling great, but he's doing better than he was last night.

We are loving Texas.  It is beautiful, nice to be near family, nice to be back with James again.  The only sad thing for us is that Charity isn't with us.  They decided to try to reunify her with her dad, so the week before we moved, she went back to him.  We are happy for him, but we miss her a ton.  We just pray that everything will work out how it is best for her.

Emma was in The Nutcracker over Thanksgiving weekend.  She did really well, and had a lot of fun.  We hope that we can find a decent ballet school here.  There are lots of things she would like to do, but if she could only pick one thing, she would choose ballet.

That's all I can think of.  Bye for now, Y'all!