Lately...

Sorry it has been a while. I truly do go in spurts as far as blogging goes, and I simply have not been in the mood the past couple of weeks! :)
Things in the DeGroot household have been great but very busy! From hanging out with friends, to having people over for dinner, to church and small group stuff, to Chris working (I'll get to that in a second), we have had very lil down time. But it's been a great start to 2010, and we are very blessed.
So, I'll start with the Bridal Fair. We got no contracts on the day of, but I'd still say it went very well. We handed out a TON of brochures, and talked to alot of people. The traffic was great! But we haven't had any calls from the show as of yet. And we haven't had the time to do any sort of follow-up marketing to the 300 brides that came and signed up. And that is due to the fact that Chris has started sub-contracting for a restoration company here, called All Phase Restoration. I cannot remember if I have previously mentioned AP because Chris worked a lil bit for them before the end of 2009, and it is owned by two of our couple friends. But as of 2010, he has basically been working full time, and more depending on the week and their needs. So, that has been a HUGE blessing! Not only because Chris LOVES the people and working with his hands, but obviously the money is HUGE too!
I think that about catches you up with things here in NoCo (Northern Colorado). I will end with some pic...love you guys!!!

Me and Kelley Mauck @ Nuggets game
(Bob and Kel got tickets for the Cavs game
and asked us to come along...it was a blast)

Shaq and the Cavs

Our booth at the Bridal Fair

One More Thing

Forgot to give glory to the Lord for His continual provision. Though it is a small one, I got a raise at work starting 1/1. It's funny how every time He provides for us, I'm surprised. But I suppose that is part of the gift, as well. Thank you, Father for how you never leave or forsake us and how you always provide for even our most basic needs!

Bridal Fair

So I know this is my first post of the New Year, and I should be telling you all about our holidays and sharing lotsa pics. BUT I did that for Christmas already and to be quite honest, we didn't do much after that, especially anything that involved picture-taking! :) We did have a great long, 5 day weekend together last weekend and got lotsa stuff done around the house and slept late and just hungout alot. So it was a great way to usher in the new year (tho i will share that Chris and I only made it to 11:15pm on 12/31/09, being the old, married couple that we are-haha)!

Biggest thing going on now that 2010 is in full swing is a very big and important Bridal Fair this Sun from 12-4pm. It's going to be a very big fair with way more traffic than any previous one we've done so far. So if you think about it and could say a quick prayer over this fair, that'd be SO WONDERFUL! We're so excited about the possibilities, BUT personally, I am very nervous about the whole thing. These are quite outta my comfort zone as it is AND I feel like this, and how it goes, will be very telling of what kind of year the biz is going to have AND if Chris will be able to do the biz stuff full time or not.

Love you all very much and will keep you posted on how it went and other things of 2010 as they come up!!! :)

Christmas 2009

We spent Christmas Eve at Chris' parents' house with them, Chris' sister and her family, and her in-laws. We met up with them after our church's Christmas Eve service. We had a GREAT meal of homemade enchiladas and then went home to get some sleep before Christmas morning's festivities. As I said on my facebook where I already posted the following pictures, Chris and his family are rubbing off on me, and though it was CHRISTMAS DAY, I didn't manage to take very many pictures at all. Hope you enjoy them, and hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your families! Happy New Year!!!

Texas Trip, The Finale (heehee)

At the basketball game...KK got to sit "on" the bench, can you see him behind dad???? :) so cute!

He also got to be the ball boy...

Lunch pics...me & autumn

Autumn and the boys

Me & KK

Visit with Kel, college roommie

Fam pics before church....

Coffee with Melissa (who is newly married) :)

So we stayed with my dad the rest of our time in TX and on Sat, we went to one of his High School b-ball games with the Bolding clan, then to lunch and then we went and met one of my old college roommates for some coffee and a quick catch up. Sunday we went to church with dad and co at the Burleson Church of Christ, had lunch and then headed to have coffee with another one of my old college buddies. And THEN, seeing as we were SOOOO tired from being up late and "fitting everyone in," we went back to dad's and just relaxed. And we "got" to get up at 4 in the morning on Monday to leave for the airport to return home. We had a wonderful trip, but we were excited also to get back home and back into our daily routines. Following are the rest of the pics from our trip. I hope you enjoyed the posts (all 50 of them-haha), and I also wish everyone of you a Very Merry Christmas! MAYBE I will "be back on" and post some things on Monday! xoxo

....ps.....if you didnt see it, there is another post below this one from today as well, so scroll on down

Friday, cont'd

After we spent what ended up being the whole day in Arlington for the tour, we finally headed down to Weatherford (where I grew up and where my paternal grandparents still live) to meet up with my dad's side of the fam. We ate at Chili's and then hung out at Grandmother & Granddaddy's for a bit afterwards.

Me and my dad's parents...they're SOOOO cute!!!

My two aunts and uncles and my cousin, Jill (who you can't see) along with Crystal and her fam and my grandparents at their house...

Granddaddy and their spoiled, rotten dog! :)


***So since I'm about to be off for 4 full days, and since I should have some fun Christmas pics when I do get back in the office on Monday, I'm going to just be posted all the rest of the posts from our TX trip today. So stay tuned....... :)

More Pics from Cowboys Stadium Tour

One of the club levels, how cool are these lights...

One of the suites

Cotton Bowl offices

View from end zone, look hard and between the roller coaster and the Ballpark, you can see Texas Stadium-wow!

Putting down turf for Baylor/TX Tech game...

The Locker Room

Where the Cowboys walk into the stadium (and ppl with LOTS of money to have these field-level suites get to watch them!!!!

That's it! I decided not to put ALL my pics on here so as to bore my friends that aren't Cowboys fans! :) If you're reading this post first, be sure to scroll down to the next post, which I posted earlier this morning and is the prequel to this one! :) I will post some fam pics from Friday night's eve with my dad's side of the fam tomorrow!

xo