christmas

I can't believe christmas has come and gone so quickly and we are now staring 2009 right in the face! I am excited for a new year and a fresh start, for whatever it is I need refreshing. haha. I will eventually come up with some things I want to accomplish this next year but I will save that for a later post. In the mean time I will fill you all in with our december details.

After the 1/2 marathon I had a full shedule of work and ryan had the house all to himself for most of that time. He was sweet enough to keep up with the chores like dishes, sweeping, moping and of course playing with the dogs. THANKS HUN! We planned our first christmas party with friends and it was lots of fun. We enjoyed an amazing turkey that ryan made (his very first!!) some ham, mac and cheese, green bean caserole, spinach and artichoke dip and some pie. It was all so delicious and we were stuffed!

Christmas eve we ran in to Houston to see Ryan's family and enjoyed more food and great company. But we were only there for a few short hours so I don't have any pics.

Once we were done with the Walsh party we went to Dallas to celebrate the rest of Christmas with the Aanerud's. Eric and Sarah were in town this year too...which means Jack and Addie were also in tow. We had lots of fun and laughs and I loved every minute we were able to spend with everyone while we were there. AND Amber and Christiaan brought their wii so we all enjoyed learning how to play...turns out we were all pretty decent at the games!

momma bowlin
merry christmas jack jack with his loot
showing momma his presentssweet addie

helping daddy open presents
playing with grandpa
jack playin with christiaan and amber
jack and ryan love playin together

My favorite part was seeing Jack christmas morning. He semi, not really understands christmas but it was just sweet to see him tearing off the paper of his christmas goodies. He is also just the sweetest little boy, even with Addie. He once heard Addie crying and he looked up said, "addie, addie." then ran over to her and gave her kisses. *melts your heart!* he is just the cutest, but I may be biased. And addie is certainly looks like Asay girl! She is adorable as ever and was really pretty quiet the whole time we were there. Eric and Sarah, you guys are blessed. Now I will stop talking about your babies like they are mine. :)

*kisses for addie*


Anyway, hope all of you had a very merry christmas and are looking forward to the new year!

*wheezing* WE DID IT *wheezing*

Yesterday, (December 14th, 2008) My mom, Aunt Kathy, Amber and I all completed the 1/2 marathon and my Aunt Jana completed the FULL 26.2 miles!!! WHEW! AND we did so with out any major injuries. Of course we were sore as all get out but we all were able to trot accross that GLORIOUS finish line and be awarded our pretty little medals, tshirts and have our photos taken. Ryan was there for our cheering section and also got some great ACTION photos of each of us closing in on the finish line.

Before the race~
ryan takin our photos~

amber was having lots of fun! :)

how we felt post-race

momma and aunt kathy~

aunt jana!! 26 miles and still smiling!

all finishers get a medal, how nice!

we were done and jana still had 2 more hours of running....

it's snowing! it's snowing! it's snowing!

Yes ladies and gents we had a WHOLE DAY of SNOW yesterday in the little town of College Station, Tejas. It was glorious! Hahaha! And this was the real deal! It started out as sleet but turned into a 3 hour snowfall. All in all, we got about an inch or so of big white flakes. Of course Ryan, me and the dogs bundled up and went to play in the snow. We very much enjoyed

ourselves!

{I know there are some of you that read this blog and live in wintery towns where snow is a regular occurance but I also know you can remember back to the years where you lived in Texas and would get so excited over the littlest bit of white flakes....even if it was sleet.}

After we were completly numb, Ryan and I decided to go to

Santa's Wonderland....what is this you may ask?! Well it is a wooded park that is lit with over 1 Million christmas lights!. Pure genious! Anyway, it was delightful and so much fun especially because we could enjoy it all in the warmth of the truck with christmas music on the radio. At the end of the tour you have the option to go into Santa's land, (which we did) a western themed town with shops, santa and the mrs.', a petting zoo, bonfire, live music, food, and they play christmas movies on a huge screen. It was really neat and a fun experience for the both of us. BUT what made it even better was ALL THE SNOW! :)

they sure are proud of their ags!!

gotta have the nativity scene! all life size!
that donkey was so mean to the little bunnies!

busy little bees

sorry it has been a while since our last post, we have been just a little busy the past few weeks. Instead of a lengthy detailed play by play I will quickly sum up the events that have taken us away from blogging.....

~since thanksgiving~

*we decked our halls with christmas decorations

*ryan went hunting at his aunt and uncles farm

*harley got skunked and not so enjoyed a tomato juice bath....which also stained his coat

*we hosted the macy's executive christmas party

*I had a door decorating contest at work {2nd place!!}

("buddy the elf, what's your favorite color?" {get it? i do makeup/color})

*finished all of our christmas shopping minus ONE gift

*I have been playing around with the camera trying to get better and learn more