1 YEAR!!!

Well, let's just say the weather was a little different than a year ago! We had planned to take a trip to the St. Croix river valley for our anniversary and go hiking through the trails by the river, pack a picnic lunch and just spend the day outside on saturday. Unfortunately, mother nature had other plans: SNOW! We were bummed to wake up to wind, snow and sleet but were going to make the most of the weekend. We went for an extremely cold hike saturday morning that lasted about twenty minutes and during which I believe I got a little wind burn on my cheeks. We then decided to go check out cascade falls in osceola WI. It was amazing. The trees and hills blocked the wind and we went on a long hike along the creek. The snow was so pretty on the trees and was the absolute perfect setting. It was so amazingly beautiful and we had about the best anniversary weekend we could have asked for! Thanks to everyone for all of their anniversary wishes! We love you all lots!

On the St. Croix River with the crazy lady statue!

On the River, freezing!

Most beautiful view ever!

Cascade Falls

SPRING! Yay!

Well this end of winter/beginning of spring has been very busy for us! We had HIT weekend, the family basketball tournament that was a great time as always along with a fun shower for heather and baby T. It was a great weekend with family and lots of basketball! Scott rolled his ankle after a good two minutes of play in the first game but played in all three games saturday like a crazy man! ( I think he paid for that in days to come!) Now we just have next years HIT's to look forward to...maybe even a championship?

We had Rikki's prom the following weekend, we came up for the grand march and got to see some friends as well. She looked absolutely beautiful and sounds like they had a great time. Now she is winding up high school and then there's just Trent left, have fun mom and dad! JUST KIDDING, love you trentie!

As for work, Scott is busy as always and the lord keeps providing work everyday! Jaci and I spend our mondays and wednesdays at storyhours at different libraries. Tuesdays we go to the mall for "toddler tuesdays" where we have met a number of fun characters like care bears, cat in the hat, dora the explorer, mickey mouse, berentstein bears and most recently Lily....but she gets most excited to see "sharky" who is the mascot for underwater world and we see every week. I think I need to just take her to see him, then we wouldn't have to wait in mile long lines for the meet and greets! Today we spend a great day at the park and spent all afternoon playing football in the nice weather!

We are very excited about the big one year anniversary this coming week and are planning a little mini get away to the taylors falls area and plan to go hiking at the state park and just have a relaxing weekend. Hard to believe that just a year ago we were getting all nervous for the wedding! We are so blessed to have each other and all of our great family and friends as our support system! You guys are the great and we appreciate you all so much :)

Rikki and Josh looking good!

Before they left for Grand March

Rik with Mom and Dad

Miss Jaci with Lily at toddler tuesday

BEAUTICONTROL!

Hello everyone! I hope you all are enjoying these last few days of warm weather! I wanted to let everyone know about something I just started...selling Beauticontrol products and doing in home Spa Parties! It has been very enjoyable so far, I love the products so it is easy to promote them! :) I am working on getting some more parties on my calendar, so if there is anyone that is interested in hosting one, let me know! There are great benefits to being a hostess including a free neck wrap and gift as well as opportunities to earn free product based upon the sales of your spa. I'd be happy to send out a catalog or information to anyone who is interested, so just let me know!

Mexico

Scott and I spent the past week soaking up the sun on the Riviera Maya! The whole week was amazing, it was sunny and in the 80's every day! Our hotel was incredible and included the most amazing pool I have ever seen right on the beach!

They had a shuttle service to Playa Del Carmen that we took advantage of on 4 nights of our stay there. Playa's 5th ave. was amazing, the shops, the music...everything was so festive and fun. We found a friend there, a little kitty that hung out by the McDonald's! She was so sweet and I tried to talk Scott into bringing her home, but he said Liddell may get a little jealous!

We also spent a day in Cancun that turned out quite interesting...they dropped us off at a very ritzy mall and Scott and I decided to try and find some of the smaller shops, so we hopped on a bus and after a 45 minute ride we found ourselves in a market that we were the ONLY tourists. I know you're thinking that there had to be a few others walking around, no we were the only ones. Thankfully somehow we found our way back to the mall in time for the shuttle bus back to the hotel! It was quite the adventure!

We spent thursday at a place called Xel-ha. It's an inlet of the ocean and they rent out snorkeling gear and have restaraunts and gift shops as well. The day flew by so fast, we spent about 7 hours of the day snorkeling and before we knew it we had to leave. We were even fortunate enough to see a sting ray along with all the other amazing fish! It was so much fun and definitely the highlight of the trip!

All of our flights were on time, no problems with baggage claim, the whole week went so smoothly and was so relaxing and amazing!

Ping and Pong, the cute little monkeys in Playa Del Carmen

Hanging out on the beach

At the pool

There was an awesome pier on the beach at our resort!

The sweet little kitty we found

Merry Christmas!

Well, these Christmas wishes come a little late as we have been quite busy over the past few weeks. We kicked off the celebrations back in November and haven't stopped! We had a total of 7 christmas celebrations this year, and have enjoyed all of them very much (we still have 2 to look forward to!) We have been so blessed this year in all aspects of our life and really loved spending time with our loved ones and celebrating the reason for the season!

We spent Christmas eve with the Heimdal side after stopping at Scott's Grandma's in the morning! Dad was pretty sick, but still his old joking self! He may have been sick but he still was able to bust out in some Dance Dance Revolution, he's a natural! It was such a great night, we always enjoy seeing family! We then headed over to Brekke's later that night where we participated in some more DDR before heading to bed.

Christmas Day we spent with Scott's parents and siblings, we had a great time opening gifts and sharing laughs! We had a huge ham and turkey dinner that was very delicious! We are blessed to have two great families and enjoy every minute with them! Unfortunately, the next day Scott got very sick with the flu and was confined to the couch. He's feeling much better now though, thankfully it was a 24 hour bug.

I was able to go to one of Trent's basketball games. He started and did awesome, I was quite the proud big sister! He shut down their main scorer who was a 6'7" giant who was a very chippy player. He also scored an and 1 with a minute to go, and they won by one. I would say he was the mvp, but of course I may be a little biased!

We hope all of your holidays found you healthy and happy! As of January 5th we will be in Mexico for a week, so please pray for safe travels and blue skies!

Winter Madness!

It feels like it has been so long, life has been a little crazy lately! I have just been finishing up classes for the semester with a lot of reading and A LOT of writing essays! We had a very blessed thanksgiving and had so much fun spending time with our great family! We have had a lot of fun getting into the Christmas spirit and are really enjoying our first holiday season in our little home! We have also picked up a new hobby, and quite a painful one at that! We went snowboarding together yesterday and are not moving around so good today, but I am sure that we provided entertainment to the other people on the slopes with our extreme wipeouts! I had gone a few times in the past, but haven't gone for about four years, so we are both learning the ropes! Although we are very sore, we had a lot of fun and when we recover I am sure we will be going again! We also were lucky enough to get some great tickets for the timberwolves game, even though it was hard to watch them without KG on the floor, we still had a lot of fun. We hope each of you are enjoying the holidays with your loved ones and celebrating our amazing Lord's love!

Busy Week

We have had a very busy, fun week! We started the week out by carving pumpkins, Scott was very proud of his Halo 3 pumpkin! I got to enjoy the gorgeous fall weather with Connor and Jaci and we enjoyed playing in the leaves! Scott adn I also got to celebrate our 6 month marker and went out to a fancy Japanese Hibachi Grille that they cook everything in front of you while putting on a show with fire and throwing their knives around! It was very fun and excellent food! Sunday I surprised Scott with vikings tickets! We had great seats and although the Vikes lost it was very fun!

Scott and Liddell get some cuddle time in before we go to dinner

Our Crazy chef getting the food going!

Scott and I at the game, what a fun time!

Our seats were at the 10 yard line, 12 rows up, so we had a great view of the action!

Here is Scott's Halo 3 pumpkin, he has some pumpkin carving skills!