Over already?!

I cant believe the holidays are over already. Time has just been flying by. First Thanksgiving with both families and a little cousin time in the city and then Christmas snuck up. We had so much! We had Christmas with the Schwenk's & Hope's on the 23rd. There were so many gifts. Scott got a ton of tools so hopefully now he can finish up his last few projects around the house :) I was def. spoiled. I got pretty much everything off my wish list.

Then, after working half a day Christmas eve, we made our way up to Cincinnati for our traditional Christmas Eve party. It was a blast! We played games and decorated ginger bread houses. My 3 year old cousin was the life of the party. He had us all rolling the whole night. For Christmas, I was so tempted to go and wake up Kristy like Eric & I did when we were kids but I didnt have too...all the dogs did it for me :) Mom & dad had their dog Macy and we had King Tut & Cleea. If Eric & Jes had brought their two, we would have really had a zoo :)

We finally got everyone up and moving and opened presents. Mom made her traditional brunch and we were pretty lazy most of the day. Later grandma, tata, and Carol & Andy came over and then the fun really started. We had dinner, played The Game of Things (and really learned a lot about each other) and then played the White Elephant game. It was so funny! Rich kept getting all the girly candles and Kristy opened up a scary fake sleeping cat. A few of us got an open box of hot chocolate and Scott got nuts.

Then the shopping began. I got up early and hit Target & K-mart while Scott went to Garden Ridge. We then made it to Walmart and the Mall. I found some great Christmas decoration deals but other than that, no one really found anything. Later that night, we met up with Uncle Larry, Aunt Betsy and the kids and went to the Cyclones Hockey game. It turned out to be a great fun game. They ended up losing but we still had fun.

I hated to leave but the weekend came to an end. Now I am not looking forward to taking down all the Christmas decorations :(

We have one last holiday of the year and we will be spending it with our friends from church. I cant wait!...

HE'S HOME!!!

King Tut is alive and doing well! whoot! :)

Scott picked him up last night from the vet and he is more playful than before...praise God!

<< I'm just glad Scott's christmas present will at least make it to christmas >>

& the bill wasn't as bad as we thought it would be...yay! :)


A complete Schwenk Family photo

King Tut

I talked to the vet today and Tut does have Parvo. They kept him over night last night and they said this morning that he was up and had high spirits...yay! He is still vomitting and has dirrhea and as soon as the vomitting stops, we can bring him home. Please pray that the vomitting stops sooner rather than later.

1st Snow

I love my family

This weekend was awesome! I dont get to see my cousins very often but I love when we do. Scott and I went to Cincinnati for a late Thanksgiving and it just so happened that my one cousin from Virginia was also in town...yay :) So Saturday, we all met down at my grandma's and we drove downtown for lunch. We ate at Skyline with dad and then headed to the ice skating rink.
Thankfully we did cuz SANTA was there! << go ahead & quote Elf, you know you want too! :) >> We were able to get a free photo with Santa...we made Halle sit on his lap cuz Jen felt she was too old :)
Then back to ice skating we went. It was a blast. It was Lauries 1st time and she did awesome! The best was when she was holding on to Halle and started to fall. So she let go of Halled to then pull down Jennifer along with her...it was hilarious. & Jobe was like a professional skater...he kept saying that he didnt remember how much fun it was...he was such a big kid out on the ice :)
We all got a little tired and headed over to Greater's for some ice cream when we ran into some more family.

It was great catching up with them. We then finally made it to Greater's where Halle & I discovered this heavenly ice cream called Buckeye Blitz. AmAzInG! It's chocolate ice cream, dark chocolate chunks (which I normally hate) and pieces of peanut butter cookie dough on top of a sugar cone.
Lets just say Scott and I were sharing and I wasnt even the hungary and yet I ate the whole thing :)
We still had some time left before Scott and I had to get back for our Thanksgiving dinner with mom & dad and so we jumped on the free trolly ride around downtown.
We boarded the Holly Jolly Trolly and went a few blocks up and then a few blocks down and then right back to where we started...but hey, it was free so who cares, it was still fun :) We also discovered that they were providing free horse carriage rides through town so we jumped in line for that too.
It too was just a few blocks down & around and smelled the whole time :)
It was a great time and now I cant wait for Christmas!

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth...

*Shark Vacuum
*Shark Floor Steam Cleaner (like yours mom!)
*GIANT SHOWER HEAD
*CD's
~Colbie Caillat cd's
~Kate Voegele cd's
~Bethany Joy (Lenz) Galeotti cd's
~Gavin Rossdale cd's
~Gavin Degraw cd's
~John Mayer cd's
~Goo Goo Doll's cd's
*Movies
~Disney Movies (classics like Little Mermaid, Snow White, Beauty & the Beast)
~Inglorious Bastards
~All About Steve
*Board games
~Catch Phrase
~Battle Ship
~Trouble board game
*Nicholas Sparks Novels
*Bare Mineral Make-up
*Medium Thick Curling Iron
*Socks
*Candles (Vanilla or Coconut)
*Any good devotional book
*Gift Cards
~Restaurants (P.F.Changs)
~Movies
~Lowes/Walmart/Bed Bath & Beyond/Target/JC Pennys


wHaT?! Is that too much to ask for?? :)

Never Coming Home....

...with the love of my life...


















...loving life...