Spring Break!

Hey everyone!


We are just getting back into the swing of things after a wonderful, relaxing week at home for Chris's spring break. It was so nice to be back home again.....here are some of the pics from the week.

We started our vaction off helping out at the feed store (not that we actually helped much at all, I just scrub the toliets!)













If you haven't figured it out by now, Chris likes to take pictures....
















We were able to get both families together for dinner at Country Pride in Amarillo- you can't find a better enchilada!















































Here is uncle Baff with his nieces...they just adore him.
































Here is Gloria fixing us a wonderful home cooked meal!
Fried chicken - yumm-o!





















Here is Callie basking in the sunlight..........
















Here is miss Regan! We got to stop by and say hi to her and Kayla! She loved my shoes- a good sign that she will have good taste!

















Lynsey wanted to have us over to her new apartment for dinner. She did a fabulous job cooking- we had so much fun!






























Here is the 69 Ford Ranger that my dad bought the week before we came down....














While driving around Amarillo looking for potential housing ideas for later, we happened upon this 66 Mustang....dad bought it. We are so happy for him and his new found hobby!

Slide show

Here is a slide show that my cousin, Stef made for Brad and my birthday!





Create Your Own

Happy Valentine's!

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

This year we are on more of a budget than we would like, but we still managed to have a wonderful night..... we decided to cook at home on Wednesday and headed to Kansas City over the weekend to celebrate without the crowds. These are the red tulips that were placed on the table before Tif got home from work.





















Our candle-lit dinner: Polish sausage, champagne risotto and grilled veggies. Yumm-o!














Tif made this candy story for Chris......


















We have gotten about 6 inches of snow over the past couple of weeks. This Saturday before all the snow melted we had our first snowball fight..... Chris initiated the fight, so after a fierce fight, Tif got him on the ground and threw snow all over him, proclaiming certain victory. I am sure that it was a sight to be had, we both couldn't stop laughing and rolling around in the snow! It really was so much fun, and hopefully we won't catch a cold.

Chris likes to experiment with his new camera, here are some of the pics of the recent snowfall.....











































He got this one without me knowing.....

Wow, time flies when you are having fun!

I can't believe how long it has been since out last blog!

We have been super busy with the holidays and all, so this will pretty much be a catcher-upper!

December 18 was our 2 year anniversary! It is hard to imagine that we are in our 3rd year of marriage, and we are ready for just about anything.
We celebrated by heading to Kansas City...
Here are just a few pics...

This is us in front of an outdoor exibit at the Nelson-Atkins museum. It really did have a nice collection of work.
















Here is the hotel- Hotel Savoy...you may have heard the song "Stompin' at the Savoy"
It was really neat to see all of the history, not to mention the fabulous breakfast.











































Next we headed home for Christmas break- It was wonderful to get together with everyone and celebrate Mamaw's 80th birthday!

Here is the birthday girl!















Christmas Eve we spent with Tif's family in White Deer- it was so nice to be home!

Here is Kaikeyi with her new toys from MeMawMaw, grandpaw and uncle Brad.
She loves her BoBo.
We don't have any other pictures from White Deer- we will try to do better next year!















Christmas day we made our way to Canyon....

Here is Richard digging for gifts!
















Here is Gloria with the family tree that we made her for Christmas






















So on to New Year's!

Lynz flew down to spend the holiday with us... we all had a ton of fun..

Here we are in Kansas City at 'Cheeseburger in Paradise'














Lynz got the mini cheeseburgers...
















This was the wonderful meal that Chris cooked us on New Year's Eve...
He fixed tilapia for him and Lynz, and I had chicken, champagne risotto and grilled veggies.
It was fantastic...I can't lie, Chris cooked for the two of us the entire weekend!
It was great!

















So I will try to be better about keeping everyone up to date, but this is all I have for now!

Olympic Bound!

This weekend we went ice skating with Justin and Jayna.
Oh my goodness- I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!

Chris had been ice skating in college, and I (Tif) had never been before. I think that we were both terrified of falling, but we didn't hit the ground once; that could have been because we didn't leave the side railing for the first 30 minuets! After a while, though, we were more comfortable and got a little more daring!

Here we are at Crown Center, in front of the Governor’s tree.














and here are Justin and Jayna...



















My spin move...



















Perfect 10! wait- or do they give 5's or 7's? Maybe we need to watch more ice skating...



















Chris will begin his finals this week, so while he was studying I decorated the house. We love all of the garland and lights- it just makes everything feel so cozy!































My favorite Christmas ornament...given to us by Nanny and Papaw- with a little help from Stef! I can't believe that it was '04....















You know that it is Christmas when Beethoven has his Santa hat on...




















and finally- the puppies. They are getting pretty good at this whole picture thing!




















Merry Christmas!

our love,
chris and tif