Christmas 2010

Had a great Christmas this year!  We went over to Paul and Linda's on the 23rd and had a slumber party complete with matching jammies for all the girls. lol ;) Woke up the next morning and had our Christmas with them, then enjoyed a nice breakfast around noon. ha. Met my parents, Keith, and Amber at church Christmas Eve and then  when we got home, had a movie night and watched Toy Story 3. Not gonna lie, I got a little teary. I love the TS movies! We woke up to a beautiful white Christmas and enjoyed our morning with just the 3 of us. Bella played with all her new toys while I cooked some food, and then we headed over to my parents' later in the afternoon to celebrate with them. Paul, Linda, and Joyce were all able to join us and we were SOOOO glad they could all share the day with us! I heart all of them! Hope everyone had as wonderful of a holiday as we did. Merry Christmas!

Do you lllllove it????

Not quite awake just yet.

Bellz in her Christmas dress and new headband

 I had the package turned the wrong way in this pic and you can't really see it, but Carty got me a hair highlighting kit for Xmas. Bwuah ha ha! Have I mentioned I LOVE this kid?!?! How flippin cute is that?

P.S. This whole blog post was typed using my new laptop! Fave Christmas gift this yr. Thanks Leo!!!  :)



New family tradition?!

Awesome day today! Lenny, Bellz, and I went out to Pea Ridge this morning to cut down our own Christmas tree. Although it was a tad chilly, it was so much fun! Think this will be a new family tradition for us. We decided we would buy an ornament from there every year, too. We found the perfect one for this year that was a bride and a groom :) When we got home, we decorated the tree and then we put together a gingerbread house with Bellz after dinner. Here are some pics from the day.

We actually have two trees up this year. I have my pretty tree up in the living room and then we put our family tree downstairs in our family room. We get the best of both worlds!

StLouisBags 4 life

Not too much to report lately, so you get a StLouisBags update. :) We had another tourney this past weekend at Overland Community Center and it was our 2nd largest turnout so far. We had a total of 21 teams that played. Woot woot! Thank you to everyone who participated.

Tomorrow we start promoting our league nights at 6th and Lucas in downtown St. Louis. Every Wednesday in December, we will host a free round robin style tournament beginning at 6pm with a prize for the winning team each week. We hope to spark some interest from the patrons there so that they will join the bags league that officially starts up the first week in January. Come on out tomorrow and play! What have you got to lose?

Old skool recreation

We took Bellzers roller skating last weekend when she was here. She talks about skating quite a bit, so we figured she must do it with her mom a lot, and that proved to be true because she was actually pretty good at it! It was fun for me to visit my old stomping grounds - Great Skate - because we used to frequent that place all the time back when I was a young whippersnapper. I tried to get Lenny to couple skate with me but he wasn't havin it. I even offered to be the backwards skater. Whatevs.

Sorry these pics aren't that great. Need a new camera.

They had these cool little walker type things that help kids learn how to skate, so of course when Bella saw all the other kids with theirs, she wanted one too, even though she was doing fine without it.  

October fun

Fire pit at mom and dads!

Thies Pumpkin Farm 10/23/10

I was going to use this pumpkin at our day after bridal session with Nikki, but I didn't get it carved in time :(

RIverboating

We took advantage of the gorgeous weather and went boating on the river with the 'rents on Sunday afternoon. As we always do in the fall, we headed up to Pere Marquette and ate lunch at the lodge, then took a hike up the trail to the scenic overlook - only, we didn't make it quite to the top of the hill to see the overlook. Still a pretty good hike though. Awesome day!

 

 

Yes, she really did drive the boat. 

She thought driving the boat was a piece of cake, so we let her try her hand at driving the car, too. She actually did an awesome job of maneuvering around the other cars in the parking lot. Crazy!

All the madness is....over?!?! :(

It's hard to believe the wedding has come and gone. It's so weird how you are rushing around trying to get all these last minute things done and having appointments left and right, and then it's all over in the blink of an eye! Although part of me misses all the hustle and bustle of everything, I'm digging the whole being able to come home after work and just relax thing. I had forgotten what that was like!

Lenny and I have lived together for almost 2 years now, and several people have asked me if it feels any different now that we are married. The answer is yes, it does feel different. Totally. It's official now. I am his and he is mine. And I LOVE it. I find myself just staring at him and I get this stupid grin on my face and he's like "What?" and all I can say is "Dude, you are my HUSBAND." Guess you could say I am still on cloud nine :) Lovin life right now! I thank God every day for leading me to this wonderful man.

Me and the hubbs on our honeymoon in Punta Cana

The Final Countdown - 2

Chuckin up the dueces

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Zen garden on my desk at work. I had to re-rake it several times today to relieve some stress... lol

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