Goodbye 2013

This year has been a busy and crazy one! Here are a few highlights and 

achievements we thought were worth noting.

Here's to 2014!

Christmas 2013

We had a goal to have enough of our remodel done that we could have Christmas at our own house, and we made it! Here are some pictures of a little bit of our holiday fun. We celebrated with the Walton side of the family the Sunday prior to Christmas day, (I was feeling pretty sick so there aren't any pictures of that..) and then we spent Christmas Eve and some of Christmas day with the Jensen side of the family, since Terry's parents went out of town Christmas day. 

Oliver met Santa for the first time.. it didn't go well... We missed out on Santa last year.

I grew up with the tradition of eating donuts and egg nog when we decorated the tree. Oliver really liked the top of the donuts.

And got ticked when we wouldn't let him have anymore.

 

Christmas Eve we open one present, Oliver got a dump truck!

I grew up with this story, and Oliver completely took over.

He thought he needed to help wrap some gifts.

Our Christmas tree after Santa had come. Oliver got 3 dump trucks total... one from each grandma, and one little one from Santa. How spoiled! Terry set me up with all the canning supplies I could possibly need, and I got him a camp chef and grill, no more cooking steak on the George Foreman!

He wouldn't open any gifts, he only wanted to sit there and drink his milk.

But, he finally came around and ended up loving his new train set!

 

 We are so grateful we were able to spend Christmas with our own family and our extended family.  As a parent, Christmas is completely different. I loved spoiling Oliver and seeing how excited he got, and getting anything for myself was hardly a concern. This time of year is such a great reminder of what life is about.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all! I'm sitting here at 8:30 waiting for Oliver to get up and for Terry to get home from dropping his folks off at the airport (how does a trip to Houston and 2 cruises sound for Christmas??) So, while I wait for the fun to begin I thought I'd get a little festive and share our Christmas card. If you didn't get one, that's because it's sitting on my counter with your name on it, no address, no stamp, waiting to be delivered... but it probably wont make it now. So here is it's virtual version :)

*Terry loved the idea of letting everyone know that we were having another boy!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

3 Years

On December 18, 2010 at approximately 9:00am, Terry and I were sealed for time and all eternity. We dated for a short 2 months before getting engaged and set our wedding date for only 3 months later. Did I mention I was only 18? We were crazy... But what a blessing this has been! There isn't a thing that I would change. I love him more with every second that passes by, and he is the best dad a wife could possibly hope for! For our anniversary this year, we worked on the house and I think we had frozen chicken nuggets for dinner. Always keepin ya on your toes, huh? We plan to get take out and go look at Christmas lights, as soon as the house is done (which we have carpet now! We're almost there!) Happy Anniversary! 

See? We really were crazy, and maybe we still are! 

Phone Fun!

I haven't updated in awhile since we have been jumping in between grandmas' houses while our place is being remodeled. Here are a few moments captured on our poor quality cell phone cameras. ;) 

From left to right , top to bottom.

Oliver playing in the wall rubble with his loader tractor.

Our rock wall is gone!

Oliver actually fell asleep on me, I don't know the last time he did that...

My grandparents are staying at my parents house for a little while, and the day before Thanksgiving my grandpa was hospitalized from having seizures. In this picture he was talking to my grandma on the phone and was so excited to hear from her. It was a sweet moment to witness! 

Oliver found a bucket and ran around with it on his head, he thought it was great!

Oliver loves my parent's dog, Oscar, and thought he needed to eat out of a bowl on the floor too. Silly kid.

Our remodel is almost done! We will have carpet installed next week and finally get back into our own place. Just in time for Christmas!