Colorado Christmas

For Christmas this year, we all went to Breckenridge for the week! It was super fun and relaxing (when we weren't trying to brave the grocery store or the slopes)! There was abnormally low snow this year, so much of the mountain was closed. When our plane landed in Denver it looked kind of like Texas with the lack of snow on the ground, except of course for the Rockies in the background, ok, that's not like Texas at all.

Christmas was sort of a whirlwind for me. I had to work through Friday, the 23. So I got off work at 3:30, caught my 5:00 flight out of Savannah, had a 4 hour delay in Atlanta and finally made it to Little Rock at 1 AM. Then had to drive from Little Rock to Texarkana (well Drew and my Dad drove!) We spent the next 2 days having Christmas with everyone and their grandma (literally, ha!) Then we drove back to Little Rock early Monday morning (4 am to be exact) to catch our plane to Denver!! And, that's just the getting there.

The last night of our trip, we were eating in town when I got a call/voicemail from a random number. Often I just ignore random numbers, because therapy recruiting companies call me all the time. Good thing I decided to listen to this voicemail at 10pm, because it was Continental politely calling to inform us that our plane which was to leave out at 10Am the next morning had been CANCELLED!! They were also polite enough to tell us that we could go online and find another flight to book.

After not too much headache, we finally made it home to Texas about 8 hours later than expected, and we had to fly into Dallas but our car was in Little Rock! So the next morning, Mom took us to Little Rock to get our car, and then we began the day long drive back to Savannah. Then the next day I started back to work...Whew, makes me tired just thinking about it!!

I'm really not complaining! I am so thankful we were all able to spend Christmas together in Colorado doing one of my favorite things, snow skiing. I also got in lots of cuddle time with the twinsies!!

Here are some action shots from the slopes...I always take my camera with the intention of taking lots of pictures, but once I get out there in my 17 layers I never feel like de-layering to get to my camera...Thankfully, Alison's not as lazy as I am, therefore we have these pictures to enjoy!

The babies at the airport, wondering why they are up at 4AM...


Mom and Jim on the back porch of the house...


The babies still wondering where we are...


Ryan and Ashton in front of the house...


Babies all bundled up for shopping in town...






Drew helping Jim


Ryan and Me


Leigh and Ashton representing every shade of pink :)

Bathing Beauties!

I'm so behind in blogging!!

I haven't posted since Halloween. The sad thing is that I don't even have a good excuse, just lazy I guess. But....I'm about to blog several post in a row.

This one is definitely out of order, in that these pictures were taken over Christmas break, but how cute are these two in the tub together! This was actually the 1st bath they took together!!












Those sweet smiles melt my heart!!!

Eat, Drink & Be Scary!

So I decided a while back I wanted to have a Halloween party. I've never really been that into Halloween, but I am into parties! I knew it would be too difficult to have a Christmas party with Drew and his classmate's schedules, so Halloween it was!

I had a lot of fun planning/preparing, and even more fun at the party! This post will be more pictures and less words, cause I'm lazy like that :)

The Invitation

Entry way






Food Table





Ghostly Cake Pops



Spider Cupcakes



Witches Brew




Mantle




Drew, the hunter; Me, the deer!



He got me!



Our family



Haha!



The beautiful Ansley and me, could not have done this without her!



Jessica and Emily




Kirran and Sam



Jessica, Cory, Kirran, Me



Zach and Drew




Tired Jax



It was a great time had by all!

Happy Halloween Y'all!

Roadtrip to Athens!

Ahhh...I like the sound of that title! Hopefully this will be the first of many road trips to Athens in the fall!

If you've known me long (or not long for that matter) then you know about my obsession love of football, especially college. Of course, my true love will always be with the Texas Aggies, although I don't know how many more blown 15+ point halftime leads I can endure (ahhh, the ambivalent life of an Aggie). Luckily, my love for Texas A&M and the Aggies goes far beyond football (but, seriously, play 2 halves already!!)

Anyway, I digress, I have always wanted to travel to different college towns and venues and experience their "game day traditions". You know eat at their best restaurants, bar-hop, tailgate, see the stadium and just soak in the game day atmosphere. At one point Hubs and I even made a college football bucket list of games we would like to attend during our lifetime. Ironically (or not), several of those match-ups were between SEC schools. So when we found ourselves living in Savannah, I figured what better time to start marking off that list than now!

Fortunately, we have met some interesting awesome people, many of which attended some of the schools that were on our list! We knew we wanted to go to a UGA game one weekend so we looked at the calendar and their first true home game, against South Carolina, fell on the weekend before Hubs had a week long break from school. Perfect! So we packed the car and Northwest we went! I swear we took the most back roads route on the way up there, and I thought there was no easy way to get to College Station. Ha!

We got there pretty late Friday night, so we just kind of took it easy. Athens is a very neat town, it reminded me of a mini Austin with a much smaller/rural surrounding area. Again, I thought I felt 'old' going out in College Station....this was waaaay worse! I promise out of the 1000's of people we saw on Friday night, we were by far the oldest there (and our mean age was 24, haha!)

Saturday, we got up pretty early and headed to campus to tailgate! We didn't plan on going into the game, so at game time we just made our way to a bar to watch it on TV. I'll have to say that this is where the "SEC" was different than my other experiences. There were as many people watching the game in bars as there was in the stadium. It was very very crowded! South Carolina ended up winning 45-42.

Saturday night we had a very good time! I won't go into details, but just so I can remember later in life, it involved a round trip free cab ride, a cutthroat foosball game, ring pops, the search for the perfect any hot dog, disposing of a perfectly good glass, some almost tears, a sore shoulder, and some really 'raging' times!

We really slacked on picture taking. We only got pictures from the tailgate, and 2 of our group members had already gone to another tailgate when we pulled out the camera.

Me and Ansley a.k.a., the sweetest, most genuine person you will ever meet! So glad our paths have crossed!

Our sorority girl pose with Jason

Swamp (that's really what they call him) being Swamp!

Jason, Ansley, Me, Drew (and Swamp)

The boys! (minus Zach) And no, Drew is not color blind, he was being a 'neutral' fan.

Zach & Kara....I wish Kara lived closer :(

We walked forever to our "destination tailgate" spot and low and behold look where we landed :)!

Hope y'all are as excited about football and fall as I am!