Baby, it's cold outside!

It may be cold outside, but we come out from this weekend with warm hearts! All week long we have been dealing with our heating system which is over 25 years old and barely working. Thankfully, we were able to get a repair man out on Saturday afternoon and he got it fixed--yippee! While Jared and Ruby stayed home dealing with that situation I was able to go to a cookie making party at Jared's co-worker's home (she's the same one who invited me to the decorations party a few weeks earlier).

We were each supposed to bring dough for 100 cookies, but I think that I'm the only one that stuck pretty close to that guideline. Everyone else brought enough dough for several hundred cookies! Since the ovens are smaller here, we were only able to put one sheet of cookie in at a time and it took a LONG time. We started at 1:30 in the afternoon and when I left at 6:15 they were still making cookies. I guess they did finish up shortly after that and then relaxed and ate take-out in front of the boob tube! They are showing the first season of LOST every night here until Christmas, so people are getting really hooked on it (including Jared!). I only manage to stay up about every other night because it doesn't start until 9:30 or 10:30 depending on the night... too late for me with how tired Ruby makes me these days!

After the cookie party we went over to our friends, Danny & Claire's, for dinner. She had fixed delicious chicken enchiladas, corn casserole, fresh guacamole... tex-mex heaven! My mouth is watering just writing about it! Ruby and Carter had a good time playing together and really were cute scooting around on the floor after each other. I think that they're starting to get used to each other and relax, so that's been good to see. Once again, we are just so blessed to have found friends so quickly and easily here. God is so good to us!