I can hardly contain my excitement!!!

I am so anxious today, I can hardly contain how excited I am!

First of all my good friend Becky is in the hospital having her baby right now! I am over joyed that I am finally going to get to meet the little guy. The second reason I'm so excited is because I leave for my parents house on Saturday morning, they live on the San Juan Islands in Washington and they got more snow today!!! I've never had a white Christmas so I'm praying the snow will either stick or we will get fresh snow on Christmas day. Practically my whole family will be up there for the holidays so I'm excited to see everyone! Here's a few pictures I got off the web cam of Friday Harbor...



Snug Harbor...

Friday Harbor marina...

My 1st hockey game!

Yesterday my brother John called us and asked if we wanted to go to a hockey game with them. I've never been to a hockey game before so I was excited to go, we had a really nice time. The Anaheim Ducks won!!! they beat the Minnesota Wild 4 to 2 - GO DUCKS!

Kyle & I

Tracy & John (my sister-in-law & brother)

"Thanks John & Tracy, we had a great time!"

"An evening at Uncle Kyle & Auntie Julie's"

Kyle & I watched Jake & Jenna (our niece & nephew) on Saturday night so that his sister & brother-in-law could go to dinner for their anniversay (and do some Christmas shopping). We had such a nice time, and the kids were awesome! We played outside for a while with Levi & Diesel then Uncle Kyle took us to see Christmas lights. We found some really cool streets ("Thanks Casey for the suggestions"). Then we got some dinner at McDonald's, took it home to eat, got on our pj's and watched Christmas movies. We had a great time with the kids, here's a lttile slideshow of our evening...

"Thanks Roberta"

My nieces Mom (Roberta) works for The Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona, the other day the Arizona Cardinals football team went to visit the sick kids at the hospital. As most of you might know Kyle's favorite football team is the Cardinals, so you can only imagine how stoked he was when Roberta e-mailed us these pictures. Unfortunatley she wasn't able to get any autographs because it was against rules & regulations (which is understandable).

"Thank you Roberta for thinking of Kyle, he loved the pictures"

Christmas card photo

This is the picture we used on our Christmas cards this year. Kyle's sister took it on Thanksgiving.

Christmas decorations

here's a slideshow of some of the decorations we put up the other night

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!

Every year I've had a real Christmas tree, this will be our first Christmas with a fake one. I've never been a real fan of artificial trees, I love the look & smell of a real tree. Last year we got a really good deal on a 9ft. pre-lit tree, and since neither of us are home on Christmas we decided that a fake one was the way to go. I made Kyle promise me that once we have children and they are old enough that we will go back to getting a "real" Christmas tree, some of my favorite memories as a child are going to the Christmas tree lot and picking out the "perfect" tree! I was a little hesitant when Kyle first took it out of the box, but once he got it up and it was all decorated-I loved it!!! Here's a few pictures of our 9 foot, pre-lit, fake Christmas tree...

Is the suspense killing you?
wait for it...

wait for it...

some final touches...

Tah Dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not too shabby huh??????

Cameron's school picture...

Most of my nieces & nephews live far away, so when I get pictures of them it makes my day! The other day I got my nephew Cameron's school picture, isn't he handsome?!?!

" We miss & love you Cam"

Ocotillo - Thanksgiving Weekend '08

Kyle & I went camping and riding over Thanksgiving weekend (Friday -Sunday) with a bunch of friends. The weather was perfect! I even found some mud to ride in (my favorite thing to do!). We all had a blast, I wouldn't of wanted to spend my holiday weekend any other way. "Thanks guys for an awesome time, we love you!"

THANKSGIVING 2008

We spent Thanksgiving at Kyle's Aunt & Uncle's this year. We had a really nice time.
"We are thankful for such a wonderful day surrounded by family"