Christmas Vacation

Christmas break couldn't have come any sooner this year as I struggled to teach my last few days of school with the flu. I was definitely looking forward to our extended break of 2 1/2 weeks. Luckily, I only spent about three days flat on the couch during my break. Many people told me that this was a much needed break but I was ready to accomplish as much as I could. I have this tendency to go crazy with my time off during the first two days by setting out to do everything that I was planning on doing over the entire break and then sitting back and asking myself, "now what?" The Lord definitely has a way of slowing me down.
So I headed home to Fresno for a week where I spent countless hours with family. Christmas was a little difficult this year with my grandma being in a rest home. I spent most of my time driving to Hanford to see her with my mom daily. Such a difficult transition. This will probably be the last time that I will spend such an extended time at home before I get married, but I couldn't wait until Tim would meet up with me in Fresno.
So from Fresno Tim and I headed to Bakersfield (I know you are thinking this isn't getting much better). But we were headed to Kristen Cater's wedding. The last wedding we would attend before ours! So exciting! I couldn't believe Kristen was up there saying I do after so many breakfasts together discussing the endless dilemma of our singleness. It was a sweet sight.
I was able to end my vacation right back here in beautiful SLO hanging out with friends, getting in some good gym time, spending New Years in Huasna at April's, making our traditional hike on New Year's day, and of course working on the endless wedding plans.

Happy 29th Birthday Tim!

As if this time of year couldn't get any crazier, we celebrated Tim's birthday on the 13th. We celebrated the day with a bunch of friends hanging out drinking warm drinks, eating apple pie, and a white elephant gift exchange. Tim is showing off his new beach cruiser here.

O' Christmas Tree

This is the first year that Tim and I decorated a tree together. We had tons of fun deciding which ornaments to put up between the two of us. I must say, our teeny tree turned out quite nice and smells great too.

Tis the Season

The San Luis Obispo Christmas Parade! It was definitely cold but seeing the Calvary Christmas float, the bike night crew, and Santa made it all worth it.

Charity's Birthday Celebration

Introducing Cruella Devil and Lucky the Dalmation

That's right.... Cruella and Lucky were the 2007 "Fall Fun Party" couples costume winners! The competition was stiff between the Tortoise and the Hare, Scooby Doo and the gang, and many more. Tim and I had such a fun time getting ready for this Halloween costume party. We did it in record time of about an hour and a half. Walking into the party we were barely recognizable (I think the wig did it for me, maybe it was the ears for Tim) I had a great time all night walking Tim around on a leash (which he didn't seem to mind too much) and socializing. I have never been one to really go all out on dressing up, but I don't believe there will be any turning back after this one. The only bummer of the night was leaving the party and asking ourselves, "what on earth are we going to come up with next year to top this one!"

House Progress

At the risk of being harrassed for working on the house too much, here's a little update on the progress. I'm in a big hurry to get the roof done because sporadic rains are already rolling through! Hopefully the shingles will be on in a week or two and then i can relax a bit. Cheers-