Daniel's First Buck...

Daniel took a trip to Texas in November with a friend of his to hunt deer. He has been talking about shooting a buck since before we were married so I'm glad he was finally able to do it. All I have to say about the matter is... the poor deer!!

Hunter/Fisher Extraordinaire

Look at the size of that catfish! Caught in mom & dad's pond! It's almost as big at Jettie!

Daniel with all of his hog dogs... you can tell which one is the beloved house pet... she doesn't have to be caged!

Daniel loves to take the boys out "hunting." They sit in a tree stand and look for wild animals.

Family Photo

Well this is the best one I've got that has everyone in it! I think it's a pretty darn good-looking family if you ask me! I only wish I was near them more often.

Christmas in California!

Here we are in California! We enjoyed a brief visit with my family in California for the Christmas holidays. My only complaint... we weren't there long enough!

Here is my cheesy-smile-but-oh-so-adorable nephew, Jakers, and cute little Baylee who is, surprisingly, sleeping!

Here is a nice photo of me, my brothers and my dad. I really, really, really miss them and hate living so far away... sniff, sniff...

Me and my dad taking a festive Christmas photo!

Here I am with Baylee (of course...I didn't put her down all night) my cousin Jill, my sister Dara and my beautiful niece Hallee!

Here they are... the couple of the year! Grandma and Grandpa - the cutest lovebirds you'll ever know!

Here are all the great grandbabies - I'll have to admit... my heart just aches looking at this picture, wishing I had one of my own in there.

Here is Sam and girlfriend Skyler (shoot... or is it Skylar? I can't remember!) But we love her!! and you too Sam!

Jeff and Daniel... don't worry Daniel... Jeff is smiling enough for the both of you!

Our Christmas Eve host and hostess! My dear Aunt Sandee and my Uncle Roland.

And here is Jill, Paul and their baby, Kate - another reason I wish we had stayed longer... so we could have seen more of them!

Christmas Day

We spent Christmas Day in Escondido with my mom's side of the family. It was nice seeing them because I just don't get to very often!

This is me and my cousins Rachel and Molly

Here my aunt Sue and Molly are holding Rachel's two kids... Evan and Anthony

Daniel and my uncle Dee

Jeff and my grandma Gerry - she passed on her "Czech Power" apron to me for Christmas and I love it! I think of her everytime I wear it!

Here is my mom and my cousin Wes

Loving Little Baylee

This is my brand new niece, Baylee. She is the sweetest baby I've ever known. I never once heard her cry. I wanted to take her home with me but I don't thing Dara would give this one up!

Christmas Par-tay!

Here are pictures from the Munns Christmas party. A wonderful time was had by all! Pictures of our wonderful Christmas in California will be forthcoming!

The Host and Hostess extraordinares!

Here I am with my dear friend Eva and my old college roomie, Amelia! Her and her husband were down for the night from Georgia and partied with us all night long! :)

The Munns girls - we sure have a good time!

Jeff meets Florida

I was so lucky 2 weeks ago to have my little brother out to visit me. He recently spent 2 years on his mission and although we saw him when he came home in July it was so nice having him in my home and finally out to see us in Florida!

The first adventure we had was airboating! Unfortunately - my camera's battery was dead and so there was no documentation. But we saw many gators and even ran over a raccoon. We BBQed steaks and had a fire - it was a lot of fun!

The next night we went to the Harmony football game. It was cold and the game wasn't the most exciting, but we enjoyed ourselves and Jeff was able to join in our Friday night tradition of eating Philly Steak sub sandwiches.

Saturday we had breakfast, drove around a bit and lounged at home. Jeff had gator, turtle, and frog legs at dinner that night at the Catfish place - true St. Cloud style!! And we played games over at the Sniders later that night (speaking of gaming - those that know Jeff may want to ask him how our Rummy games went).

Sunday we just went to church and hung out and our last day together, Monday, we spent doing what Jeff does best... hanging up Christmas lights!! We went to several places to find the best deals of course, and then spent the afternoon hanging lights.

The week went by way too fast! I loved having him here and cannot wait for his next visit. Jeff... I loved your company and I miss having you here! You are so fun to be around and I love you!!!



Oh - so any of you that know our pups know that it takes a little while for Cocoa to get used to you. Well... not Jeff!! Cocoa loved him right away! Had no problem jumping on his lap, licking him and he even slept with him!! I think they missed him too when he left. Hurry back!

More pictures from his trip...

We showed Jeff the fine sights of St. Cloud/Kissimmee - the Rodeo grounds
Daniel and Jeff played some pool at the Munns' Hacienda
Harmony Football - so glad Jeff was able to experience our fall Friday nights!
You can't visit Daniel without seeing some hogs!!
We also skateboarded through the neighborhood - it's Daniels and my favorite way to get around these days

Bienvenido A Miami

For our 4 year anniversary we spent a fabulous weekend in Miami with our BFF's, Joey & Eva Snider (they were celebrating 9 years!) Eva is from Miami and volunteered to show us a good time so we drop their kids off at her parents and spent the next couple days seeing the sights and eating some of the most delicious food my palate has ever experienced! We literally left one restaurant and went straight to another - but we only had 2 days so we had to fit it all in! We did some shopping, hit some unfortunate rain, but enjoyed ourselves thoroughly! We can't wait for the next one!! Happy anniversary to us and the Sniders!!