Friday, we went to a Brewer’s Game with Jess, Becky, and Josh. It wasn’t like a normal Brewers game, it was super coold!! BUT, they won 14-7 against the Astros. Woot!

Wedding number three, here we go. Since I’m the maid (matron) of honor in Melissa’s wedding, I obviously have to be involved in lost of the process. I’ve made her invitations so far, view them here. But also this past weekend was her shower. Fun stuff!

Our first Christmas as “married people” was awesome! Though it wasn’t the same opening presents early on Christmas morning with our sisters and brothers, it was our own. Christmas Eve we went to LifeChurch’s Christmas Eve service with some of our family. After before going to our Aunt & Uncles, we made our traditional stop at McDonalds. We only eat appetizers, so we usually get in a quick meal first. We open presents with our crazy little cousins and got to spend time with all the sisters and brother-in-laws/fiances. Here are some photos from the night.

Christmas morning, we opened our own presents, played a little of the original Mario for the Wii, that Drew got from Vanessa. Then headed over to Vanessa’s parents house where the rest of our family comes over and we made Mongolian Beef. It was so yummy! We have lots of fun just relaxing, playing with the baby and whatnot.

When we got home from spending the day with our family, our cat was the most vegg-ed out cat ever, it looks like he enjoyed the peace and quiet. Drew got me a deep fryer, and now I have to find some new recipes (if you have some, send them to me!) We celebrated with Drew’s family earlier because some of them were heading to Florida for the weekend. All in all, a great first Christmas together as “married people.”

My sister and new brother-in-law got married last weekend. We were both in the wedding party.  Their photographer sent over one of their pictures (mainly so I can make a thank you postcard for them), but take a look, more cool stuff will be coming soon.

As our first Christmas together, we are trying to create our own traditions that we can someday do with our kids. To start of the Christmas season, we decorated cookies for our stay-at-home date night. Luckily, being the graphic designer, Vanessa is, we got letter cookie cutters for a wedding present. Each year we are going to try to do the same spelling out which year it is.

I love my family, they are the greatest, so it usually makes Thanksgiving that much more fun. We did an early thanksgiving with Drew’s family and then on the real thanksgiving celebrated with my family. Here are some photos from the day.

I decided it would be fun to give my aunt a break with the two older kids and take them swimming at our pool. And since I got a new camera, I thought I’d try it out. However, I didn’t trust myself bringing it to a place with a lot of water, so here is our day, minus the pool part. PS These kids are crazy, but I love them!

When I am 90something, I hope I am as cool as my great grandma. Look at her flare jeans too! She is so cute!

This is her at our wedding too… LOVE IT!