The Broadstreets

February 15, 2011

Birthdays, Photography & Love

My blogging has turned into a once a month occassion but I guess that's ok for now. Since the ski trip it seems like we have been busy busy every week! Here we go to catch up on the last month....

Basketball season is over as of last weekend so things will hopefully slow down for a while. Coach B went undeafeated this season until the end of the year tournament (which is an improvement from last year's team!). Kerr & Traca were in town for a wedding and got to see his last game and get a picture in the gym before the game.

For Dallas' birthday this year I decided I would try to make his mom's receipe for banana pudding that he loves so much. According to Dallas, it turned out pretty good! Everyone at bible study loved it too - even though Dallas did not want to share with them...(I guess we know who is going to have to teach our kids how to share one day!)

For my birthday this year we got to take pictures for our first wedding. Thank you to the Schmidt's for the opportunity! We have been talking for a while about trying to get our photography company going...just needed an opportunity to see if we really liked it. I will admit it was a lot of work and we were exhausted by the time we got home Saturday night but it was a lot of fun getting to capture those special moments for Catherine & Patrick! We have been working hard on our website and editing the pictures so we can start generating more business. And hopefully by this summer Dallas will have something else to do besides sit on the couch and watch tv! :)

Kerr & Traca bought flowers & a cake to celebrate my birthday on Friday night. I also got beautiful tulips from Crystal! Dallas took some cool close up pictures of the flowers...

On Valentine's we celebrated by going to our favorite restaurant in Katy - Hasta La Pasta! It was delicious as usual. They had a special Valentine's dessert (chocolate hearts & cinnamon ice cream) that was soo good! Dallas also bought everything to make chocolate covered strawberries....my favorite!!

In other exciting news...our good friends Case and Kimberly got engaged since my last post! Kimberly and I are 12 days apart and have so many memories together! She has been at pretty much every birthday party since I can remember and now we live in the same town and still get to hang out! She was a bridesmaid in my wedding and now I get to be a part of her special day too. We can't wait to see them tie the knot in June!

Playing dress-up one day at Kimberly's house....aren't we cute?

At the engagement party after Case proposed

Random Summer Addition to my February Post:

Our friends/neighbors Amy & Dustin go to Lake Livingston to visit his parents often. Over the summer we got to go with them one time and play on the coolest lake float ever! This part of my post is for my Aunt Susie who has a house on Lake Brownwood....I think our family needs to invest in one of these so we can have "king of the float" competitions when we all are at the lake!! I'm not sure what it is called but pretty much just trying to stand up on the thing for more than 5 minutes is a challenge when more than one person is on it.

Even though Amy and I are neighbors I just now got these pictures off her computer. That is why this random part of my post is in February! :)

January 17, 2011

Keystone, CO

We just got back from our trip to Keystone and it was a blast! This was the first time we have gone skiing together (well not really but we don't exactly count 8th grade FCA ski trip because we didn't even talk to each other then). We both decided to try the snowblades this time because we had heard great things about them. We loved them! As many of you know I am definitely not the best skier :) (I like to go slow and not turn into a snowball when I ski down a mountain!) but the snowblades made me feel more confident so I could go a little faster without falling! Dallas, on the other hand, was flying down the mountain like a pro on the first day skiing since the 8th grade. Other than skiing some of the things pictured below: the awesome chocolate milk in a cute restaurant in downtown Denver, Dallas eating his mint oreo bark from Rocky Mt. Chocolate Factory, our friends that went on the trip with us, in front of Lake Dillon (which we tried to walk on but sunk too far in the snow before we could get there), cool ice sculptures that were in the village and Dallas night skiing.

We loved being in beautiful Colorado and one day would love to go back!

December 28, 2010

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!

November 30, 2010

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!

November 21, 2010

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!

November 8, 2010

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!