Christmas 2008

This Christmas we were blessed to spend the holiday with all of our families. We spent Christmas Eve and Morning with my parents and sister in Sonora and came home Christmas Day to see my dad and grandma and all of Rob's family. We had such a great time and are ready to do it all over again!

He gets this Shady Deals face from Uncle Robbie

Opening presents

Mama's gonna get you Ty Ty!


Tara and Addy


Big Brother Parker...YAY!!!!

Cousin's

Brother and Sister

CHEESE!

Garrett's crazy rendition of our Christmas Tree

Ornanments are delicious!

Nana and Papaw

I love wine!

My sister and me

My sissy and me

G-Mom and Daddy

Ashlee and Garrett...now parents of TWO!

Uncle B and Uncle G

Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I made you out of clay.

Juli and Jeff

My parents Christmas Tree...cut down from their 10 acres in Sonora

Cookie Time Part Deux

Here are some of the pictures we took during cookie baking with our new camera that we love! I love being with Rob more than anything...we always have so much fun!

Rob says this is my bratty look. I say...I have just one? :)

We made the sugar cookies too big (Fresno style) and they baked into one large sugar cookie rectangle...so we cut them out again!

Rob hard at work...and by work I mean drinking.

Cookie Time!

Last night Rob and I were up until 12:30 getting our house ready for Christmas. The closer it gets the more I excited I get!

Part of the "getting ready" process included baking yummy cookies to fill my CUTE new penguin cookie jar the my mama-in-law got me. We had a lot of fun and I will put up the pictures of the beer bottle covered in flour later. It was Rob's little helper!

There are more cookies being made...I'm on a roll!

HealthComp

HealthComp had their annual awards dinner last Saturday night. Rob and I both work there and really love our jobs! Rob is the Chief Legal Counsel and I am a Plan Manager and Implementation Coordinator. There are six different awards that are presented each year and this year I was given the Brilliance Award. It is such a great place to work!

Thanksgiving Weekend

After leaving Fillmore, we headed up to see my parents in Sonora. We had a great time roasting marshmallows, watching the Christmas parade and wine tasting.

My Parents House

Campfires and S'mores

Campfires and Cigars

I love my pops

On our way to the parade

My beautiful Sissy

Ironstone Winery

Juli and Katie

Thanksgiving

We had such a great time today with Rob's family (minus Ashlee, Garrett and Parker...so sad!). We went down to Fillmore to celebrate at Ryan and Tara's and their beautiful new kitchen.

I love my family!

Me and my beautiful step daughter

Why I Love Him

I started this list shortly after Rob and I got married. I love him more everyday!

~We can hang out all day together and do nothing, but have so much fun doing it!

~ He washes my car for me

~ He tells me I can't have a pig, but really I think he would let me...I hope he is reading this! :)

~ He takes care of me when I'm sick.

~ He plays with my nieces and nephews

~ He makes me feel so safe. I know he will always take care of me

~ He makes me spaghetti because I have been craving it

~ He always has a witty comment...and by witty comment I mean something that he thinks is hilarious and that I roll my eyes at

~ He is a Guitar Hero Rock Legend! Although I think I'm going to ground him from it before he forgets about me!

~ I have never felt this way about anyone in my life and I am thankful everyday that I get to love him

~ He went through hell for ten years and is still the most loving, compassionate person.

~ He BBQ's us the most amazing T-Bone steak and then reminds me that "bone-in" makes everything better!

~ He makes me want to be a better person everyday

~ He reminds me that it is okay to have a bad day

~ He reminds me that I don't always have to worry about what everyone else thinks

~ I think I have said this one before, but he makes me laugh everyday!

~ He stops by my office just to say hi...and to grab a 100 calorie pack out of my drawer...but mostly just to say hi

~ We bought a inversion table ("upside down hanger") and he let me go on it first

~ He lets me be a part of his "brothers" golf trip.

~ He is the master fly terminator

~ He always thinks of me first.

~ I realized that I was letting "that" take over my life, as well as our life as a couple and I will never do that again

~ He makes birthday dinner for my daddy

~ He starts "Classic Movie Wednesdays" so we can catch up on the greatest movies we haven't seen

~ He lets me pick a Marilyn movie for our first "Classic Movie Wednesday" Gentleman Prefer Blondes...Yes they do!

~ When I need him most, he is there.

~ He tells me that it is all going to be okay, and I know it is.

~ I never stop having fun with him!

~ He threw me the best 30th birthday (along with my girlfriends)!

~ He makes me feel like I am 21 again!

~ He listens to everything I say, even when I don't know he's listening

~ He knows exactly what I need, even when I don't

~ He has the best legs!

~ When I need him, he is always there

~ When it has just become too much, he brings me a piece of Hersheys chocolate

~ He makes me dinner every night

~ He loves my family as much as I do

~ I love his family as much as he does

~ He is the best dad

~ He lets my puppies sleep with us

~ When I get cranky, he teases me until I laugh

~ He is so handsome

~ He is so smart

~ I come home and he has done something nice for me while I was gone

~ He lets me sleep until noon

~ He sleeps until noon with me

~ He has the strongest convictions

~ No matter what I need, he knows what it is

~ When I see him across the room, I still light up

~ No one is more loyal

~ He is my everything and he always lets me know that I am his

~ He playfully gets mad that I stole his toothpaste out of his drawer, but then when he is done using it, he puts it back on my side of the sink

~ He takes me away for our anniversary so I can relax, and even lets me snore because I am so relaxed

~ He doesn't make me hike in Yosemite