Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Christmas Fiestas!

We love the Christmas Party! Last Sunday evening we had our small group over for a Christmas Party with some fabulous sweaters. We were pretty pumped to see the theme embraced. We're loving our small group, they're awesome! See Below.
Rebecca dressed Cason. Perfection.I was so excited about learning to knit the day before that I showed all the girls. Then we decided to go to Walmart in our sweaters to buy supplies for Lisa and Tara. I had literally just bought my sweater from the front rack at Walmart two hours before.

What I like about this: Jordan's shirt is also a sweatshirt that is crazy decorated. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it's a ladies shirt as is my husband's. They were twins! How this was supposed to work: We were supposed to find Brad a new sweater, to pass on the tradition to our friends at the Mullin's Christmas party...but I just couldn't find one to do this sweater justice, so we stuck with his for this year. Next year though, it's on. Shauna and Aaron also had their annual Christmas party this past week, white elephant gifts and all. We had a great night, with a fantastic two rounds of Guesstures. I didn't have my camera for that part of the night...but there were some classics.
1. Dave's representation of grunt.
2. Blair and Adam's team effort without words.
3. Amy Bean's mad tuba skills

The tree with all the glorious white elephant gifts...see below for the fantastic items!Lights from the Campesi home. The golden candlesticks. These things were amazing.
What's sad is that this look of absolute excitement was taken away. Charles used his steal to rip that from Evan. Sneaky, but well played.
I love the campaign to move everyone to Round Rock. I believe that mug says there's no place like Round Rock, TX. (Something along those lines)
Brad Bean with his new desk picture of Mike Jones.
The perfect trailer hitch decoration.
The tradition remains...
The white elephant gift Brad received. I found this to be hilarious!
Amy's fishing set with the one armed man. Who knew fishing could be so risky?
I received the melted candle which will make it's return next year! My picture will be up soon of this beauty.
Overall, as always, some great times down here in the Austin, TX. Have a great week! We're back to Indiana in 3.5 days!!!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

SNOW!

Just so we're all clear...tonight during our Bible study we thought we heard freezing rain. Afterwards we took a look...there is SNOW on our Rodeo. Clearly, it won't be there in the morning..but tonight we have SNOW!!!!!




GREAT week!

We have had such a great last week! We have been able to have some time with friends, and with each other, and we've been learning, AND we decorated our house. I must say, I've been ALL smiles this week!


The finished products...
We also were able to go the the Heart Hospital's 10th Anniversary Gala on Saturday evening. It was a great time! We haven't been so dressed up in quite some time, and sometimes that's just nice to do. We had a great meal, were able to hear some neat stories about the hospital, and even danced a little bit. It was a nice date night!

On Sunday we had an ugly sweater Christmas party with our small group. It was great! The outfits were fantastic and we loved it! I'll post pictures from this very soon!

Overall, we are just so thankful to finally be on the same schedule. We really feel the Lord is going to use this time to grow us together and prepare us for whatever is ahead. We have needed some time to just be together, and thankfully He has blessed us with that. Hopefully, I won't drive my sweet husband too crazy.

Also a MAJOR highlight of the weekend. I learned to knit! A huge thank you to Amy Bean and Kathrin Campesi for the patience to teach all us ladies, I had such a great time! We had a little girly day on Saturday, and ate some good treats, learned to knit, and Shauna did my hair for the gala (clearly I should not be trusted with hair for an event like that), we had a great time!

Now, just two more weeks of work for us...which really equates to 6 days for me and 7 for Brad, and then we're headed to Indiana for Christmas!! I can't even explain how excited I am.

Then to South Carolina for a roommate reunion and a wedding for my sweet former roommate Summer! I'm pumped.

Hope you all have a great week! Be ready for the party pictures, I will give you a taste though. Cason, thank you for this.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

That time of the year...

Some pictures of our Thanksgiving...

This is my hawaiian sweet potato pie. Now, I realize it's purple, but did you know there are purple sweet potatoes? A nurse at work had this, and when I tried it I thought it would be so much fun to make for Thanksgiving. I will say, it is difficult to eat purple pie, but I maintain that it had a really good taste!

Our second turkey. This turkey was a team effort for us, and it turned out great! We had been researching the food network for some helpful tricks, and Brad happens to be creative, so I was pretty excited by how it turned out!The final product...we had a FULL meal!Lots of fun things coming up....
1. Christmas dishes coming out this week!!
2. Christmas decorations Monday!
3. A gala for the hospital's 10th birthday...we get to dress up and spend the evening together!
4. Christmas party with friends!!
5. Babies are coming soon....
6. Home for Christmas!
7. Snow in Indiana?
8. TIME WITH OUR FAMILIES!
9. Indiana Friends!!
10. Summer's wedding!

LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!

Time to decorate..have a great week!