The Dotson Family Adoption

Since Kelly had to go to his big boy job at Belhaven to teach on our Anniversary and I had church, we post-poned the celebration one night. We were creative again this year. If you are an avid subscriber to our blog, you might recall that we had crawfish for our anniversary last year. This year, since we have both had a very busy week and did not feel like getting out in the pollenated world that it currently is, we ordered our favorite meal from P.F. Changs. We decided to make a living room picnic of it. We started with our usual 30 minute devotion on the nature of marraige, it's benefits and blessings. We then had a webbing/brainstorming session on the pro's and con's of marraige in general and in our own marraige. 2 hours later, we fought sadie for our cold dinner.  JUST KIDDING.... To begin, we had our usual pan-fried shrimp dumplings, I had my favorite, shrimp with candied walnuts and Kelly had the pepper steak. We threw in some healthy brown rice, which made us feel s...

It's been a while since we have blogged.... February has just flown by. We started the month off with a great Superbowl Partay! We had a total of 15 people in our house and I'm just glad that we truly love our friends and don't mind being "close" to them. :) I cooked Jambalaya with the amazing Kiama Lee as well as King Cake.We visited Baton Rouge to hear Stephanie Hubach speak on Special Needs Ministry, which we both thoroughly enjoyed. For Valentines, we went to PF Changs for dinner and The Fresh Market to pick out dessert and coffee. I had canoli and Kel had chocolate covered strawberries...  We tried a diet called "the soup diet". I failed on the second day and Kelly has one more day left!!! I have to say, it's really not all that it's made up to be. We'll keep you posted on the progress, if any is made. As of Thursday, I had lost more weight than Kelly.  We have had a wonderful, relaxing month with each other.  God continues to bless us i...

It was the best of times.... It was the worst of times.... LSU did not have particularly have the best of seasons ( the worst of times ), but we had the opportunity to watch LSU play in the Chickfila Bowl ( best of times ). It was a good game. The End. Oh yeah, here are some pics from the best of times :) enjoy. Other than the Chickfila Bowl, we were able to enjoy staying in Buckhead, which is a great area to visit. There was a Container Store right by our hotel, which made me VERY happy. We also went to the Jim Henson and Olympic Exhibits at The Atlanta History Center as well as the World of Coca Cola in downtown Atlanta. We enjoyed some great food at The Rock Bottom Brewery and The Cheesecake Factory. On New Year's Day, we headed to visit Ben and Kristie Hogue's "practice" bed and breakfast in Rome, GA. (history note: Rome, GA is named Rome because the town is surrounded by 7 hills just like Rome, Italy). We had a wonderful time catching up, reminiscing, and playing...

I want everyone to stop reading right now and scroll down the page a little, looking to the left of the page as you do... go ahead, I'll wait. OK, did everyone see the space titled "Followers". I bet most of you did. And I bet most of you just scrolled back to the top to read the rest of this post. Look people, we are not here for our own enjoyment. We write and pour our hearts out to you for a reason... to get followers. We need to know who will be with us and have our backs when the whole thing comes crashing down around us. We can't rebuild the world with just one follower. Well, we could try, but it would be an up-hill battle. So, take some time and click on the link and become a follower of this blog. If not for you, then for us...and the children...think of the children.

OK , OK .  We watch TV.  I don't understand people who say things like, "Oh, we don't watch TV." or, "TV rots your brain."  We watch TV and like it.  Favorite shows: Chuck, The Office, Grey's Anatomy, College and Pro-Football, Monk, Psych , Saturday Night Live the Golden Girls (Amy's Favorite) and THE BIGGEST LOSER.  Every Tuesday night at 7 we watch people who are incredibly obese compete with each other to see who can lose the most weight in just a few weeks.  I wouldn't say that we are Reality TV people... as a matter of fact we don't get into Reality TV.  We use to watch Big Brother but we stopped.  I watched Survivor a long time ago (season's one and two) but beginning with season three it all got boring.  The Biggest Loser is different than most Reality TV shows, however... its nice.  What I mean is that for the most part the contestants are rooting for each other and are pushing each other to lose the most weight.  There is some g...

I keep meaning to get a new journal to write my sermon notes in, but as you can see, I keep forgetting. This is what my bulletins look like when I come out of church. Today, particularly, I wrote not only on the front, but also inside and on the back! As of today, a new journal is at least on my Christmas list. Today, Pastor Carl preached a very convicting message from Genesis 13. It truly has me thinking.  He began by asking the congregation the following question, "How good is your faith in the midst of failure?" I, at this point, was thinking to myself,  "My faith is the only thing that gets me thru failure". I was thinking wrong. I don't have faith in times of failure. That is what I love about how Pastor Carl brings us God's word. He is not afraid to show us just how we might be mistaken by the way we are living.  In the book of Genesis, chapter 13, Abram and Lots family possessions (Abram is Lots uncle), had grown so vast in riches, including material ...

well, not really since I will have to pay for all 3 individual procedures.  I am having a tonsilectomy , adenoidectomy and Sinus Surgery on Friday, October 24. I have had a vicious cycle of allergy and sinus problems that occur almost monthly. My internist ran a CT scan a few months ago and realized that my sinuses were blocked - they tried meds and she finally referred me to Dr. Scott Harrison (who did Kelly's emergency surgery 3 years ago) He took one look at me, looked over the CT scan and said you'll need all three and we can either split them up or do them all at once... I feel that having all three surgeries at once is logical for me. I wanted to wait until Thanksgiving, but we need to do it while I'm "well" and not risk me being sick.  Please pray that I stay healthy so that I can go ahead and get this over with!!! We are hoping that this is going to help with my migraines as well. They really don't know how long my sinuses have been blocked! Pray f...