Stalking Santa!

We absolutely love all of our neighbors...we are blessed to have such a wonderful corner in our neighborhood :) With that said...this past summer we had some new neighbors move in next door- Forest and Carol! We weren't really sure what to think about them at first (LOL....totally kidding....I know they will read this, that's why I wrote that!) I have to be careful of my sarcasm on-line....it gets me in trouble sometimes!

Anyway....no, so we love them too, and this past Christmas, Carol asked us to participate in a little something to get at Forest. Without telling the whole entire embarrassing story, lol.....this is what happened. They moved here from West Virginia and when they lived there, Forest had a little incident with a Santa statue. I guess one morning he thought someone was outside of their house walking around at 5 a.m. He told Carol to be very quiet and very still so "he" wouldn't see them. He made her turn off the lights so "he" couldn't see in as well! Come to find out, it was just the neighbors statue of Santa! So....since then, Forest has had a few run ins with the old man. This year would be no different!

Here's the Santa at their West Virginia house!

One day, they even found him on the interstate!

This year, he made it to our front yard!

And every day, the week before Christmas, Santa slowly would inch his way toward their house...

He jumped across the driveway and is now facing their house! Carol was hoping that Forest would notice and ask her about it...he refused to say anything to her despite knowing she was probably in on it!

Here's some pictures from my camera....

Stalking Santa is even keeping an eye out on Levi!

He got closer and closer until the day before they got home, Anthony moved him to their back porch!

So when Forest and Carol got home that night, Santa would be starring at them from the back door!

Uh-oh Forest....Santa's gonna put you on the naughty list!

So then when we got home from Ohio after New Years...this is what we came home to! lol!

Forest....we know you don't want to admit it, but Carol got you good!!!! It was ALL her idea, I promise!!!!

Next Post will be of our trip to Ohio....and I better get on it because we are going back in a few weeks for alumni weekend at Cedarville :)

Today I signed up to be a Scentsy Independent Consultant...I'm so excited to see how God is going to use this business to help us further His kingdom here on earth! Are you wondering why I would say that? Well then stay tuned....I will write more on that later as well.

Also...this past weekend Anthony attended Deputy Hopper's funeral up in Ohio. For those of you not from that area...she was shot and killed only miles away from our college campus. It also was from the area of Ohio where I am from, making this incident even more dear to our hearts. Anthony was honored, along with his best freind and 4 other Lexington Police, to represent the department. We will be visiting her gravesite when we go back to Ohio in a few weeks. It will be emotional I'm sure as the past few days have been that way for us. I will post more on that later as well.

Also- a prayer request for all you prayer warriors who read this. Our pastor, Rick Long (40 years old) will be finding out tomorrow if he needs open heart surgery. Please pray for him, his wife Paula and their 7 year old daughter Linley. I will keep you posted on this as well...

Thanks for reading this really really long post!