This Christmas was our first Christmas as a married couple...and we were busy!! We were both part of our church Christmas show called "Joyride" at The River.
This is a painting that was done during a church service right before Christmas
At the shows, there were gingerbread men and a snowman walking around in the lobby. They were pretty cool!
Matt was a janitor in the performance and he was the opener to the whole thing.
(video taken during a rehearsal, so it wasn't quite perfected yet)
He was also Joseph.
(video taken during rehearsal)
There was a REAL baby that played Jesus at every performance! In this picture, it is a doll because this was taken during a rehearsal
I wasn't IN the show, but I was in charge of the little kids who were the sheep. They were sooooo cute!!! It was fun, and a lot of people appreciated me being there to keep the kids under control.
I made each child a sheep ornament and a goodie bag that I gave to them after the last performance.
Christmas Day!!!! Our first Christmas together :)
One of my presents from Matt was Disney Sing It...I opened it and played it right away!
Then we made Christmas cookies
and decorated them too!
Here is the final product...take note of Matt''s "ninja" snowman and the bear with his head bitten off, haha. Matt wasn't exactly into making "cute" cookies
I was in charge of the cute cookies :)
Then we went to the Oglesby's for more family fun
And of course had to take lots of cousin pics!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is Matt using a washcloth after already soaking up some wax with a paper bag.
Back to the paper bags...they worked the best!
This is after cleaning it up...you can hardly see where the wax was!
We are both very busy with work and volunteering at church, but we are doing well. Life is good and we are just kinda waiting to see what happens in the next few months as to whether I will get a teaching job or not.
This is a painting that was done during a church service right before Christmas
At the shows, there were gingerbread men and a snowman walking around in the lobby. They were pretty cool!
Matt was a janitor in the performance and he was the opener to the whole thing.
He was also Joseph.
There was a REAL baby that played Jesus at every performance! In this picture, it is a doll because this was taken during a rehearsal
I wasn't IN the show, but I was in charge of the little kids who were the sheep. They were sooooo cute!!! It was fun, and a lot of people appreciated me being there to keep the kids under control.
I made each child a sheep ornament and a goodie bag that I gave to them after the last performance.
Christmas Day!!!! Our first Christmas together :)
One of my presents from Matt was Disney Sing It...I opened it and played it right away!
Then we made Christmas cookies
and decorated them too!
Here is the final product...take note of Matt''s "ninja" snowman and the bear with his head bitten off, haha. Matt wasn't exactly into making "cute" cookies
I was in charge of the cute cookies :)
Then we went to the Oglesby's for more family fun
And of course had to take lots of cousin pics!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
We got to hang out with some of his school friends
Here is Matt's birthday cheesecake...with one really big candle!
Me and Aimee (matt's sister) baked a banana pie pudding thing...it was tasty!
Chris made us all his special British tea
We had an early Thanksgiving dinner which was amazingly delicious!
We also went to the arch, since Chris had never been there before
We went up in it to show Chris the view of St. Louis
Me and my tall baby bro
Cousins!!!
Mmmmm...time to eat!!!
Dad with his big turkey leg
After dinner wrestling and meat grinders
Then another birthday celebration for Matt
We got together with my family and the Oglesbys
I got Matt a body pillow as part of his present so he could cuddle with it :)
