Thursday, December 27, 2007

Christmas!!!








Looks like Tute found his present...or so he thinks! And, here's Zoe thinking she needs to be super cute too!

I can't believe Christmas has already come and gone. It goes so fast. We had a great one though. Sunday, we headed over to Michael's parents for the "Newton Christmas", which includes all his Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. It was fun, and the food was great! Christmas Eve day, we headed to Horton. My family got the best present that day...ELECTRICTY! They had been out for two weeks from the bad ice storm. They were so excited, they had almost given up on getting it before the holidays! We all headed to my Aunt's house that afternoon and celebrated Christmas with my mom's side. We had fun and got some good presents. That night, we all went to Midnight Mass in Horton...although, it was actually 10pm mass.



On Christmas, my family opened our presents from Santa and from each other. Everyone got lots of good stuff! And, it was great to have Michael there on Christmas morning! After that, we had to get around for lunch. The Rice side came over and we had another large dinner and a gift exchange. It was fun to see everyone.
From Horton, we headed to Michael's sister's house. We opened presents there and then had the 4th large dinner in three days! It was good as the others. We spent some time with the family, then headed back to our house to finally open presents from each other. We had a great Christmas and was glad to see our families!
Michael is excited for all the snow. He has a snow plow on the front of his lawnmower!

Monday, December 17, 2007

A little behind...



Ok, I'm behind from two weeks ago...

Two weeks ago...we went to the Trans Siberian Orchestra. It was so much fun! It is our 2nd year to go, and we plan on making this a Christmas tradition! They are so awesome along with the laser light show! If you have never heard them, check them out on you tube. The next day, I had a girls night out at Houlihan's. We exchanged Christmas gifts...it was lots of fun!

This last week has been interesting. With the bad weather, we lost power one night...but it came on the next day. BUT, my family (in Horton, KS) lost power a week ago and is still without it. They came to visit this last Thursday to get a break from the dark and cold. We did a little Christmas shopping while my brother finished typing a paper for his class. They are saying it may still be a week or more before they get electricity!

This weekend, we took it easy. Friday night, we went to Longhorn for date night, then headed to our friend's house of Nate and Michelle. Nate just graduated from the police academy and was having a party. The next day we didn't do much...ended up hanging out with Cody and met Lynsey and Jeff for drinks. Yesterday, we watched movies all day and relaxed! It was nice since most weekends are super busy! Can't believe Christmas is almost here!!!

Monday, December 3, 2007

My Birthday!

Nov. 27th was my birthday. I turned 28! I guess the advantage of having it during the week and around a holiday means that I get to celebrate it several times! When we were in Horton for Thanksgiving, we celebrated with my family. I got some great gifts including a couple games we need to try out!



On my birthday, Michael gave me the perfect presents (check out his beautiful wrapping) and took me out to eat at Paulo and Bill's. It was pretty good. Then, we headed to his parents for cake and icecream...good stuff!



This last weekend, we had people over and then went bowling. I hadn't been in quite awhile. It was lots of fun and good to hang out with friends! Also, my parents came on Sat, during the day. We ate at Oklahoma Joe's....the BEST BBQ ever!!!