A December to Remember

Wow....December has flown by!  It was full of fun Christmas parties, keeping our sweet niece Jency, some winning Bears basketball games, shopping, and spending time with our wonderful families over Christmas!

Jency came to stay with us at the beginning of December for a week while Misty & Frank went to New York.   We had a blast keeping her and being entertained by her jabbering.  It was also a small peek to what it would be like when we have one of our own.  Let us just say a very different lifestyle taking care of a little one! 

That Sunday our bible study all went to the Christmas Celebration production put on by our church.  We had heard it was a big deal and it turned out to be very good!  (They even had a huge elephant walk through the sanctuary and Santa flies in from the balcony.)  Here are a few pictures from after the show with some of the characters:

Well Mr. Broadstreet got plenty of goodies from his kids this year! (They all love him...I have parents of patients come into my office all the time raving about him!)   He got tons of sweets, more starbucks gift cards than he knows what to do with, money, a blanket, sweet cards, etc.! Here's some of the stuff & a very happy teacher:

This year I decided to make a few homemade gifts.  My first project was to finish the scrapbook I have been working on for Dallas' parents for 3 years! After that I painted a decorated a letter J for Jency's room and made homemade ornaments for the family.  I forgot to get a picture of all the ornaments but here is the one I made for our tree.

Speaking of Christmas decorations here is the finished picture of the Christmas lights from my last post:

Our Christmas break began with the roadtrip to Abilene.  Christmas with the Broadstreets was the morning after we arrived.  Christmas morning got moved up this year to the 23rd so we could all be together! I believe Kerr was very excited to finally see his scrapbook finished & Traca got her first digital Christmas scrapbook with last year's pictures only a year late :) (Hey...I'm cutting the time in half from Kerr's scrapbook)! Dallas & I were very excited to get the flash for our camera in our stockings....one step closer to our photography company we would like to start! Here are a few pictures from "Christmas Morning":

And if you notice, Dallas has on his elf shirt for Christmas & his parents bought him the perfect hat to go with it.  Here is the debut Elf dance video:

After a few days in Abilene we headed back to Katy to have Christmas with my side of the family.  After opening presents it was time for a dance off.  This year for entertainment everyone got a chance (or was forced :) ) to play Just Dance 2 on the Wii.  It is a game where you have to copy the person dancing on the screen and compete against each other.  It was very amusing and we had a great time laughing at each other and ourselves! 

What a December full of great memories! We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Happy Barn Building!

We just got back from Thanksgiving break and we have been working for 2 days....and already we are counting down the days till Christmas break!  My family spent Thanksgiving in Abilene building a barn and hanging out at the new land where my parents are building their new house.  Here's a few pictures from the week:



Driving the forklift in his mother-in-law's pink construction hat



Sweet Jency hanging out at the land being cute

While the boys were working so hard....I got to go shop with my sisters and see Kelsey!  I went to see Kelsey's new house in Tuscola and steal some of her cute Christmas ideas.  Here is one project she came up with that I think turned out very cute:

Everything you need is at Hobby Lobby and most of the time 50% off!

Other exciting news...our championship shirts for League Tennis finally came in the mail (and the magnet that Dallas says he is going to put on the side of his truck so everyone will know)!  In honor of our first championship we had to, of course, take a picture in our new shirts:

To end the Thanksgiving update post here is what we were up to tonight:

Hanging our outdoor Christmas lights for the first time! And yes, Dallas is on the roof because we don't have a ladder tall enough to reach that part of the house.  We did not completely finish with the trees and such so I will post a picture later of all the lights around the house!

Lip syncing & Decorating

These past few weeks have been pretty busy with basketball try-outs, tennis matches, church get togethers and Christmas shopping! On this past Friday Dallas was in a pep rally at school.  The teachers join in once a year with the cheerleaders and perform skits.  The cheerleaders wanted Dallas to dress up as Justin Beiber and lip sync one of his songs. 

Here's the debut video (It was very loud so you can't really hear the song in the background but you can still see his dance moves!) :

 and Glamour Shot:

On Saturday, we decided to go ahead and decorate for Christmas because I wanted our bible study friends to see it when they come over the Wednesday after Thanksgiving break (it will be the last bible study at our house for the year). Since we will be in Abilene the whole Thanksgiving break and basketball season takes over Monday nights now....I talked Dallas into letting me decorate before Thanksgiving! We went and bought a wreath this year to add to our decorations. I decorated it with ornaments, jingle bells, etc. and put it over our fireplace...I love it! And love having our house decorated for Christmas!

Other fun house news....our hibiscus that we thought was dead and chopped down - is back! And has its first bloom!

Happy Thanksgiving week to everyone!

Fall is Here



I finally got to decorate for fall...last year we had just moved in and I didn't even have fall decorations in mind! Pumpkins, cornucopias and a cute flower arrangement Misty let me borrow to put on my front door now decorate our cozy house!  

We had a Costume & Pumpkin Carving party at our house 2 weekends ago.  I have really enjoyed entertaining in our house and using some fun things I got from the wedding! (We also have bible study here on Wednesday nights)  Our small group from church came dressed up and ready to carve! Here are some fun pictures from that night:



We had a wide variety of costumes: Lumberjack, Flapper,

Cowgirl, Eggs, Bacon, Rainbow, Ninja, Wonderwoman & an Inmate!



Our friends from Denmark, Rune & Signe, enjoyed getting to experience an American tradition.  It was their first time to dress up for Halloween and to carve pumpkins! They did a great job at both and we have plenty of pictures to show it!

 

Halloween was that Sunday night so we sat Smiley (pictured below) on the front porch glowing with a candle and waited for the kids.  We were prepared with candy...not knowing what to expect because last year we were in a little apartment and didn't have trick or treaters!  Around 6:00 here comes the first group of trick or treaters...(Dallas literally jumped out of his chair when the doorbell rang he was so excited). Little did we know our doorbell would be ringing like crazy untill around 8:00!!  We saw all kinds of costumes and all ages come to our door...by the end of the night we were out of candy and ready to just sit and watch the Rangers game!

 

HAPPY FALL!

It's been a while...

Well I decided I would try to start blogging but first we can catch up from the past 2 years that I haven't!

First of all we got married in May 2009...

 

Then went on a wonderful honeymoon to Kauai, Hawaii!

 

 

Traveled a lot during our first summer being married...

 

 

Started new jobs....

 

 

Bought our first house in November 2009...

 



Celebrated our first Christmas together...

 

Celebrated our first birthdays & Valentine's together...

 

Celebrated our 1st Anniversary in The Woodlands...

 

 

 

Had a great second summer being married...

 

And that brings us to Fall of 2010....

 

Now that you're caught up I can begin blogging about life today...