Back in the Saddle Again

Well, I have quite the pile of papers to go thru here at work today, but I am still really going to try and get at least SOME of the Mexico pics on here today. But just in case I don't get to that, I just wanted to say that we're back. We had an amazing time....seriously, it was like living in a dream. The weather was perfect. We had a blast with our friends. We had no worries about calls, dogs, texts, emails, work, money or ANYTHING! It was the most wonderful vacation ever, and we're so blessed to have been able to go! So, hopefully pics will follow soon! Love you all!!!

Mexico, here we come!!!!

So in TWO DAYS we will head to the airport to fly to Puerto Vallarta, and I am so stinkin' excited, I seriously can hardly contain myself! :) Anyways, just wanted to remind everyone that that's where we'll be for the next week, but come March, be looking for lotsa fun pics! Love you all, and please be praying for safe travels and for us to be lights to the friends we're going with!

Mexico Tour

I just booked our (and prolly only) planned activity for Mexico! Check it out: https://www.vallarta-adventures.com/tours/yelapa
We're going on a catamaran, snorkeling, hiking to a waterfall and kayaking. Fun, huh? Gosh, I'm getting SO EXCITED! Only 5 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jazzy's VDay

Can't believe I forgot to tell you about Jasmine's VDay weekend, too! She woke up to a brand, new baby to slaughter on Sat morning and was very excited!!! Here's a pic...sooooo cute!

VDay Cont'd

So Friday we headed out to do a service project with our small group, but before we left I gave Chris his next VDay gift...

you can't see it all that well, but it's a collage of about 15 photos of the 2 of us from all the diff places we've been over the past 2.5 years. And tho I wouldn't normally give sucha thing to Chris, as all of you know, I'm seriously obsessed with cheap and free stuff, and this was totally free from Walgreen's! :)

Continuing on....Sat morning I woke up to this...

I got 12 beautiful pink roses, a very sweet card, some much-needed warm socks, and some yummy, nutty snacks. I LOVE how well my hubby knows me and what I like and need. He also got me a new watch band cuz mine broke, and I'm obsessed with my Iron Man watch, BUT come to find out I need a whole new watch because of the way my band broke. :( But anyways, didn't he do a wonderful job? He's sooooo darn cute! :)

So, I made Chris his fave breakfast, Dutch Baby, a family recipe (which I meant to take a picture of, cuz it's quite an interesting lil thing, but I forgot and it was gone in just a few minutes after I got it outta the oven) and then before we had his parents over for dinner and cards, I gave him his next gift...

these are his fave candies of all time. they're California brittle from see's candies, and i can only get them online. and lemme tell you, they are YUMMY! :)


and yesterday, as promised, i let him watch every last second of NASCAR coverage without a single moan or groan, and tonight we will finish off our long, celebratory weekend by eating at one of Chris' faves, Noodles & Co. YUM! YUM!


Hope you all had a wonderful VDay weekend, too! Love you!

St. Valentine's Weekend

So generally I make quite a big deal about VDay to my husband because, though he is a wonderful hubby, he is not very romantic (which is something I knew before I married him). And the past 2 VDay's that we have had together, he has done a GREAT job. I mean GREAT! And, as usual, this year, I have been talking about VDay alot and going on and on about it so he wouldn't forget about it and would do something exciting again. BUT then I have been talking to a bunch of my girlfriends who are planning fun and romantic stuff for their hubbies for VDay, and I guess I was convicted about how selfish I was being about VDay being a time where only Chris needed to do something for ME! And obviously we do not have lotsa money to be doing anything really spectacular, but I do have a few lil things up my sleeve for the weekend. And so not to ruin any surprises, though I do not even think Chris knows the address of "our" blog or anything, I will only tell you the things I have already done and not the things to come. But I have a few LIL things planned throughout the entire weekend, and I am SO EXCITED to "reveal" them to Chris a lil at a time!
So, last night was the beginning of the celebratory weekend, and I gave Chris his VDay card and made him some of his fave cookies...the holiday ones from Pillsbury. He ate them up and LOVED it! And he even shared a few with me, too! hahaha

And this morning, he is off doing editing stuff at home, so I got his coffee ready to go for him, when he wakes up AND left him a lil postcard saying that he gets to enjoy a Nag-free weekend of NASCAR. You see, my hubby is a huge NASCAR fan (yuck, I know, but this, too is something I knew about him before I married him), and the silly sport of NASCAR always begins its new season over VDay weekend. So my biggest gift to Chris this weekend is that he gets to watch all the NASCAR he wants to, and I will not say a word about it!
Well, thanks for "listening" today, and I will fill you in on the other surprises later. I'm just so excited about getting to surprise Chris with a few lil things that I wanted to share it with SOMEONE! So, like I said, thanks for "listening!"
Happy VDay to all of you!!!!!!

1/3 of a Reunion

So after almost 3 years (and many life events), Krista & I got to see each other again. So, I hadn't met either of her precious boys, and she had not yet met Chris. And actually no one that I lived with in Cali at Mission Year had met Chris, so it was very exciting for Krista to meet him! I also got to see Krista's youngest and newly married and expecting sis, Alisa and meet her hubby. So, though they have been and will be here all week for a Landscaping thing in Downtown Denver, we only got to see each other for 2 hours at dinner last night! But those 2 hours were amazing, and honestly, it felt like no time had passed at all since I last saw my lil dreamer!!! We met at the Rock Bottom Brewery and talked and talked and laughed and got to know everyone better and reminisced about the past, and well, it was a very short time, which was sad, but I am so thankful that we got the time together!!!! So, here are a few pics...
Krista, Justin, Spencer & sleeping Jackson

DeGroot & Bartlett clans

Spence's scowl, which we saw a lot of :)

Alisa, Miguel & Baby (coming soon) Rivera

Krista Lynn, I love you and cherish your friendship and am so thankful to be blessed with such wonderful friends who love the Lord! Thank you for coming to see me, and hopefully we can do it again sometime sooner than another 3 years! xoxoxoxo