What a week

This week has been such a great week. Besides the fact that it was Christmas! =) On Saturday we had some friends, their kiddos and L's bro, over and ate chili and played on the Wii. It was just a great stay at home evening. Sunday night we met some other friends for dinner, also a fun time to chat and eat some good food! Monday we went to dinner with some friends from our old church. It was DELICIOUS and great to see them! We went to PF Changs and I LOVE it! It was so so yummy! Then they came over after dinner. It was great to catch up and spend time with them. This week we are moving Curves to a new location. So besides our fun time with friends we have been very busy moving! L has done everything for me! He is so great! He put together a desk, painted the whole place, moved a HUGE desk and put speakers in today. I am so thankful for my hubby and how much he helps me. He's just amazing. We are opening in our new location on Monday and I CAN'T wait. It is going to be such a good move for us. I'll have to post some pics next week, once everything is in. Even though it's been a busy week, it has for sure been a good one! Tomorrow we are having friends and family over for New Year's Eve and that will be a lot of fun too! We plan on playing games and eating some good food!! I hope you all have a great New Year's Eve! "See" you in 2010!!!!

Happy Birthday Jesus!

On Christmas Eve our church service was cancelled due to the CRAZY blizzard so we stayed home! We live very close to my parents and L's parents so we took our 4 wheeler and drove to L's parents house! My parents drove over also. L and I got stuck right in their drive way in a big snow drift! It was pretty funny and then my parents walked in and they had got stuck driving my dad's H-2 in the driveway too. So needless to say we knew we would never be able to make it to town! It was CRAZY! But we had our family and we were all safe! So we had our own church service and played games.

L's dad playing the guitar with his mom my sis and his sis singing.

My parents

After we sang and ate dinner and dessert, us girls played a game of scrabble, while the boys went to get the tractor to pull my dad out. Once everyone was unstuck, we ate some more and then all went home.

Christmas morning L and I woke up and opened our presents together and then went to my parents house and then his parents came to our house to open presents. After presents my g-parents came over along with my parents and L's parents and we had a HUGE brunch and spent time together.

L and I have always had matching PJs for Christmas morning, this year our PJs were Yankees pants! It is fun to pick out the pants and then to get to wear them together! It's something we will always do!

Part of the spread for brunch. We had fruit, cinnamon rolls, breakfast casserole, prime rib and sausage balls. I made the cinnamon rolls for the FIRST time! I was so worried that they weren't going to turn out (PS as a side note I'm not the best cook! So this was a BIG deal for me!), but they turned out and were DELICIOUS!

My sis, M, and L's sis, K, after opening presents! They were both jazzed up after opening presents. We got K a sewing machine and she just loved it. After we ate she went to my parents house and sewed with my mom. My sis, M, is 14 and WAY into make-up, so we got her make-up and she just LOVED it! She immediately went to the bathroom to put some on! Silly silly girls!

Uncle L (hubby's bro) and Bo dancing!

L playing with one of his presents. My parents and I got him a nice video camera to film his hunts with. He LOVES it and as soon as we got home him and his brother started messing with it. I'm sure he'll have a lot of fun with it and I can't wait to see some of the things he films.

We had a wonderful Christmas. It was great to spend time with family. I loved Christmas Eve being able to just be with our families and celebrating Jesus' birth. We all got lots of great presents and had just a wonderful time! Now we are relaxing with friends and enjoying our time together! What a great weekend we have had.

Beautiful

In my last post I talked about how much I missed the summer and warm weather! Well we just got home from Cabo San Lucas. We were there for 4 nights with my parents and my sis. We had an absolute blast relaxing by the pool and the beach. It was just what we needed. Here are some pics from the vacay. We stayed at the Riu Palace in Cabo, which is an all inclusive resort about 10 mins from the town of Cabo. The resort was gorgeous!

The beautiful view at night
My precious hubby and I

My cute sis

One of the pools

My parents
The beautiful beach

AND then this is what we came home to! Oh my goodness is it COLD!!!
Oh how I miss the summer! =) Winter is here for sure!
The firepit is full of snow!

Filson is the only brave one that would come outside!
The pool looks SOOO cold

The good thing is we made it back home from Cabo before it started snowing and we will be having a WHITE Christmas! We are having a nice relaxing day inside. God is so good! Christmas is such a wonderful time of the year and it is so great to celebrate His son's birth. What a great day!

I miss this.......

I love the change of seasons. I love that it's cold during Christmas, the leaves changing colors, the tulips in the spring, BUT I am TOTALLY a summer girl. I love being in my swimsuit by my pool, I love reading books in the sun, I love my hubby grilling for me,I love sitting out by the fire pit, I love my anniversary and birthday (both in June), I love having peeps over to be outside and swim, so when winter comes and it's too cold for me I just miss my summer! We aren't even in the coldest part yet, but I am longing to lay out and read my book right now! Especially b/c I'm reading a good book! (I'm reading Blindside: Evolution of the Game, the movie the Blindside is based on this book)

Just remind me next August when I'm saying it's too hot b/c my pool water is bathtub temp. how much I missed summer!

Oh Christmas Tree

Last week we had a date night of dinner and Christmas decorations. It was a lot of fun to go through all of our ornaments that we have and look at all of them. We buy an ornament every place we go on vacation so it is fun to go through them and remember that vacation. We also bought a new tree this year. We bought a pre-lit tree and I just LOVE it!!! In the past we used L's parents tree from when they first got married. I plan to put it up in another part of the house next year, but just didn't get around to it this year.Our pretty tree! We don't have a mantle so I got the wire Christmas Card holder from Pottery Barn and hang our stockings on it. (Yes the dogs have stockings too!!! )

This is the only pic we got of the dog by the tree! The other two (Daisy and Phoebe) wanted NOTHING to do with taking pics!

Filson sitting by the tree

Bo decided he just wanted to sit on the couch

This is our tree topper this year. We had a pretty angel but since we have moved we can't seem to find it, so we improvised this year! I got this twiggy things from Hobby Lobby. I really like it, it is super fun.

here are some of my fav ornaments
This is from New York City. It's Santa at a hot dog stand
This is from our first Christmas married, we went to Hawaii.
Our little Bo's ornament! I need to get Filson one but haven't found the perfect one!
This is from Steamboat, CO. The sign next to it says "Kiss Me S'more" I thought that was just so stinking cute!!

I love Christmas. It is such a great time of the year and to celebrate our Savior's birth. What a great time it is!

SURPRISE!

This past weekend I had a surprise birthday party for my lovey hubs! It was so much fun. He was totally surprised. We had it at a little event center and did all the decorations very rustic. We had BBQ for dinner and chocolate cake and key lime tarts for dessert. It was such a great time with friends and family.L looking at me saying "What in the world?!?!?!?"

I kind of looked surprised here too! HA

Me and my sweetie

The yummy dessert table

The girls

Our fun table decorations

L "making it rain" with the bartenders tip! The guys were being VERY silly!

The party was great! I am so surprise I kept it together and didn't tell him. Especially because the day of my friend and I were setting up and we got this brilliant idea to get something out of the loft with no ladder! So I got on her shoulders! NOT SMART! After getting the decoy it took us off balance and I fell off her shoulders onto my head and she fell on her hip. Yeah not the brightest time of my life, but we survived! We both are a little sore, but no blood and no broken bones! But defiantly CRAZY! I promise I'll never do that again! As an adult you shouldn't be getting on anyone shoulders unless you are in the pool! (Note to SELF)

Other than falling, the day went great and the party was even better!