The Prodigal has returned

So many years ago Scott and I decided we wanted an addition to our Taylor family so we prayed about adopting a dog... we took 3 months to look at the decision from every angle and see if it was the right thing to do for us and after 3 weeks of non-stop 5 hour visits to SPCA, Scott found the perfect one- the one he wanted and the one that he thought was right so we made the leap and brought home:

Rocky Taylor

A year later life really sped up for us and Rocky was spending soooooo many long hours at home alone in his crate that it really started to make us feel like abusers but lucky for us we had some friends who loved him and would faithfully keep him and love on him while we would take vacations and such so naturally when we begin to look for him a home they wanted to keep him and it was going to be a join-custody kind of thing since we still wanted to be able to see him and spend time with him.

Over the past 2 months for me (and the past year for Scott) for some odd reason I found myself missing Rocky and wanting to see if the new family would let us re-adopt him so Scott and I talked about it since we are in a much better place in our lives (time-wise) and we have very much improved the amount of family time in our lives... we actually have most saturdays home and most evenings free-> here in the very near future. Anyways we talked about it and begin to pray about it and sure enough we received a call last week asking if we would be interested in taking Rocky back! I think Scotts heart leapt out of his chest... haha.

My first thought was, "sure we would love to" but when we signed our lease at this townhome, the owner had a really bad experience with the pet and owner that was here before us so when we signed our lease they had us sign that we would NEVER have a pet here and since we didnt think we would have another one, we signed it..... so, with Rocky needing somewhere to go and us needing the owner to bend we prayed and prayed and then we made the call and no questions asked they agreed, Rocky was going to be able to come home!!!!

And so with much excitement I would like to announce:

THE PRODIGAL DOG HAS RETURNED!

Welcome home Rocky Taylor..... he is a few years older (the hair around his snout has turned white and he's a bit fatter) but he fit right back into our life and oh my gosh he is sssssoooooooooo well behaved! I must say the fit is perfect and I even petted him for the first time this time around :) I think this is going to work nicely (not to mention my hubby is glowing) and Bubba will be so happy we brought his best-friend home :)

I love how God moves in the small things that matter to us.....

Have a great day all,

Missa

Pops out the wa-zooo!

I love to cook and bake and not to toot my own horn but I think I am pretty good at both of them.

The thing about loving to cook and bake is that during the holidays you end up doing so much of it. In my case I always end up doing some for us, some for family, some for friends and some for church, usually my big project is the church events but this year, my big project was: Texas PRN!!!

I made hundreds of cake pops over the last 2 days and I am happy to say they are all packed up and delivered!!!!!!!!

YUM! Now for some down time before the next couples days just fly by and Christmas Day is here!

So much fun to make and even more fun to eat!!!

Have a wonderful night- Im off to have dinner with the owners of our company and the bosses! Pray for me because they picked a sea food place. I checked the menu to be sure there was something I could eat and they have chicken but all of the food is prepped in the same place so sea food and "safe for me" food is all cooked together so please pray I do not have a reaction and get sick in front of everyone. Thanks!

Missa