Deck the Halls

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know I did. We hosted this year and I was lucky enough to have 10 friends and family over. Everything went splendidly and we all ate a ton! Of course I had a lot of help from my mom, Steph, and John too; thanks!

With Thanksgiving over I wasted no time getting ready for Christmas. I feel like it all goes by so fast, so I like to decorate right away. This is our first Christmas in the new place. Here is the tree, which I was able to put in the front window.



It's Sunday which is football day in our house. John's brother Joe and his girlfriend Kari came over to hang out and we decided to get in the holiday spirit.

Christy Kringle

Father John Christmas

Joe St.Nick

Kari Claus

Morgan wanted to know what all the fuss was about

Santa Morgan

Have fun getting into the Christmas spirit at your house!

I'm back!

Okay so obviously it has been quite some time since I last posted, sorry about that. So I thought I would post some pictures to fill you in on what I have been up to since August.

On Labor Day weekend we went to Lake Shelbyville in Southern Illinois with some friends and had a great time. The lake was beautiful!

Mikey and me
Sometimes it just impossible to take a nice picture, lol!

Kari, Joe, Becky, John, Me, Mikey, Stephanie, Kaliani, and Diven

Then in September we had a chance to see Zambrano pitch a no hitter; it was a great game. I know the season had a horrible end, but that game was amazing!

I don't think I have ever seen John more excited.

Me, John, Joe, Kari

John and I had not taken a vacation in quite some time, so when a friend of ours was getting married in Las Vegas we couldn't help but say yes! A few of us traveled out to party and see the wedding. We had a great time. The wedding was really interesting; a traditional Indian wedding in the hotel Paris. The dresses were just beautiful. We stayed at the Flamingo, which I love for the central location and the pool. John didn’t do quite so well on the gambling scene, but I had my first winning trip to Vegas. With my winnings I treated myself to my first designer purse!

On our way to the pool.

Joe was really hungry that day!

On the night before the wedding we had a great time at this piano bar, lots of singing and

dancing into the wee hours. Needless to say, getting up for the wedding was not easy.

In October we were lucky enough to spend a weekend at Becky’s family cabin at Lake Thunderbird. It was a beautiful weekend spent eating, playing games, wandering around an apple orchard, and spending time with good friends, what could be better?

Lots of pumpkins ready for picking.

We decided to try out the cornmaze. Some people were better at leading than others...I kept getting dizzy. But it was a fun time.

Lexi, Scott, Becky, John, and Me

A view of the lake from Becky's dock.

The drive home, lots of beautiful fall colors.

Finally a few weeks ago we celebrated Halloween. This year we based our costumes off of a friends party theme-the 80s. After lots of thought I decided to go as Rainbow Brite and John decided to be Scrooge McDuck. John’s costume cracked me up-too funny!

Scrooge McDuck

Rainbow Brite

Becky was a newsreporter.

Joe was Stan from the tv show Southpark, and Kari was a Geisha. I love this pic b/c Stan always throws up on the girl that he likes in the show, so Joe was pretending to throw up on Kari-funny.

Well I think that pretty much catches us up… As always we are busy so I should have some more pictures and stories to share with you soon. I will try to not let so much time pass between posts. Hope everyone is doing well!