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!)

Time Flies...

I was just saying that September had come and gone in the beginning of my last post - and now here we are, and October has come and gone (with no post either - my apologies!)  But after the fateful camping trip in the last past our precious camera (my wedding present from my hubby) was stolen.  That put a damper on my spirits (and my ability to have any type of fun post sans pictures).  Alas, we are waiting to see if it turns up at a pawn shop and in the meantime bought a small point and shoot so we could still caputre memories.

Speaking of memories, in the time since we last met, we had our SECOND anniversary.  We took another trip to the mountains to collect apples and had a great time.  Beautiful weather and starting a great tradition...but it had me remembering...

Two years ago... 

 Last year...

  and this year...

ahhhh!  I love this little life we are building!  More updates soon - just hitting the very important highlights for now!

Wah - Wah - Wah!

Well September has come and gone hasn't it?  We certainly didn't make our September trip timeline with the Airstream (and working on the A/C has been replaced with working on the heater as Fall sets in) - but we did have a GREAT time at the Shrimp n' Grits festival in Jekyll Island even without the Airstream (luckily our friends have a pop-up camper - worked out just great!)
Friday night Eric and I headed down there early for the $3 sample night!  Heck yea!  $3 samples of shrimp and grits!  We were both full for $18 and it was byob - combined with camping - this was a GREAT vacation idea (cheap!)

 Eric on the dock on Friday night

 Some cool boats piled up

 And the awesome bar

Saturday we went back to the festival to see the sights, eat more (not as cheap) Shrimp n Grits and browse the craft tents.  It was very fun.

(All of us out on the docks Saturday)

Saturday evening we went for a bike ride and ended up over on Driftwood Beach for sunset - GORGEOUS!

 Even picturesque shrimp boats out...

 We took full advantage of the gorgeous night and perfect sunset and wore our cameras out.

Eric and I - Andrea and Tim

Of course Eric had to pull some shananigans...

and we took full advantage - ha ha ha!

Finally we headed out to dinner, which involved some more byob - and oysters (and Clemson football).  All in all it was a GREAT weekend! (as witnessed by Eric's gigantic grin!)

Lots more fun stuff going on and upcoming - I'll try to be better about posting!

TTFN

~eric n nikki~

Trailer Progress...

I believe in the last post I mentioned something about...
"Now off to check the brakes and bearings, repack the hubs, buff the entire outside, get a new water heater, check the AC, paint the hitch and lay a new floor... that ought to give me enough time to make new curtains, upholster three beds and update the kitchen."
Well in that list - we have been busy checking the brakes and bearings, repacking the hubs, installing a new water heater, finding unknown problems (can you say poopy tank?!  lol) and moving on (soon maybe) to the A/C (with the stipulation that we don't find any new unknown problems - can you say plumbing?)

Finishing up the water heater

soo proud!  He is doing so great!

In the same breath I've ordered YARDS of fabric and custom cut foam.  Made pillows and bought curtain patterns. 

Arcadia String Quilt Pillow - but soo many more to go...

We are working hard towards our September timeline (though I think research on the 200+ hours to buff the outside of the trailer has put that out of scope for now).  Things are going well and we are having fun - hopefully more trailer updates soon!