Christmas Party

This year my new work friends had a fun wonderful Christmas party.  We did a potluck dinner and it was complete with a white Elephant gift exchange.  VERY FUN! (my new work friends, Michelle, Lisa and Barb).

Eric ended up with a snuggie - but it was short lived - and promptly stolen form him.  We had a great time stealing and re-opening.

 They had a beautiful Christmas tree in the room we rented and we took full advantage and took a great Christmas photo.

It is so nice to be enjoying my job and working with fun people and preparing for Christmas in such a fun way!

Christmas Tree Hunting

Christmas traditions continue and we went Christmas tree hunting with my BFF and her family again this year to the same Christmas tree farm.  I think this is three years (or four?) in a row now.  I love it.  This year I let Josie take pictures with my camera and got some new perspective on things...

We all did find our trees though - Brandy and Dave got their big ginormous tree...

 

And Eric and I found our teeny tiny tree.

 

 A good time was had by all!

Indeed

Indeed.  Life is Good.  We are spending our last day of Christmas vacation slow simmering some homemade french onion soup (my second try - so fingers crossed), hunting (well Eric is) and general catching up (cleaning, laundry etc) before getting back into the normal grind.  But we are also spending it grateful for what an amazing Christmas we had. 
The house was full of joy, smiles, wrapping paper and amazing gifts from wonderful family and we are just so grateful for all of these things and for the salvation of our souls offered in the gift of Christ.
Life is Good.  Indeed.  and Merry Christmas!

So Much to Say...

So much to say, so much to say, so much to say....
We've been gone (again) for quite some time (maybe the longest dry spell) but I'll try to start catching up...
We've had some big happenings this Fall...
Eric shot a great deer at his new hunt club this year (a 6 point buck even)

 Nikki got a brand new Subaru (*eek!)  I LOVE it!

 Eric's cousin Jesse got married (to his beautiful bride Elizabeth)

 They had a perfect southern wedding complete with cotton for decorations, boiled peanuts and bottled cokes, and Lauren even came back East and joined us for it.  It was a fantastic occasion.

 (Logan with his coke - couldn't he just be a commercial?  Too cute!)

Eric and his sister

Up next - Thanksgiving (prepare yourself for the nephew cuteness) and even lots since we've been home.  Hoping to be in this space a little more (so you don't get to missing us so much!)