Happy Birthday To The Most Beautiful Girl

Happy 25th Tutie!You make life better for Phil and I. Congratulations on all you accomplished in your 24th year!

Badminton

A new house favorite and a seemingly favorite of my Philippine people.


Part of Ruby's 25th birthday celebration our house competed in our version of Winter Olympics. We competed boys against girls in a series of events at Dixon Rec: 2 rounds of badminton, ping pong, 400meter relay, weight lifting, holding breath under water....just the standard "sports day" activities. At this point we are tied so we'll have to settle it in a match of Settlers...get it?!

Rube Tubes Turns 25

Our House Birthday Celebration For Ruby.

We went out to a delish Sunday brunch at Fire Works, got some birthday cheesecake, spent 8hrs at Dixon, had lunch at Block 15, went to Dox and had our Dox Peeps over for cake and ice cream.The clever boys deemed December 13th Birthday Winter Olympics.



Ruby and I LOVED birthday Olympics.

Work Blues

It always seems 3weeks before a scheduled vacation are the hardest days at work. The vacation you've had planned for months is so close yet still so far away and work is KILLING YOU. I had a rough day Dec 8th and my babe reminded me how much I am loved.

Finals-Week Fu-Manchu

One Term Down, Four More To Go

Christmas Cheer

This Christmas was our first time decorating our OWN house since we first got married. So we did it RIGHT with 3 christmas trees. It was fun having aaaaalll of Ruby's decor and mine.


We got our trees from the Kiker Tree Farm. We made a fun day out of it. Started at Coffee Culture for creamy warm mochas. mmm

- Found it! What a nice shape.

- Family photo opp.
- Since we were already there, why not get TWO trees. We picked a perfectly shaped Doug Fir and this cute little Noble.
- The boys...they're good at doing man projects together. P.S. Nice facial Hair Phil.
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- With two trees and peppermint schnapps in hand we were in the Christmas spirit and ready to transform our cozy little house into an even cozier little Christmas cabin.
- Stringing up the tree....did you notice Lewis' very nice Christmas sweater :)
- The Noble has all our ornaments and the Doug Fir has all Jenna and Phil's ornaments on it.
- The finishing touch.

This is an ornament we got as a wedding gift.Decorating the BIG tree in our front room.


Our tree looked so tiny in the lot but HUGE in our house!
Nice Work Lewis
- The boys tricked us and each already had a present they wrapped and stuck under the tree. They might of just wrapped empty boxes, we'll have to find out. A special time of year with special people. The night was wrapped up (nice!) with a game of Settlers and some grilled cheese.

Emma For The Weekend

Pete had a speaking engagement the first weekend of January. Jenn had planned on going with him so we had Bemmers for the weekend. When it was canceled I told P&J to keep their weekend off and have a staycation. Bem-Doodle and I took lots of videos. Click on the purple links to see.



So I posted this video late. Its amazing to hear how well she talks and how much she has learned in just a month's time.






Emma LOVES driving, any chance she gets! She always wants to play in the mini. I'm excited for summer so she can actually drive her lil' mini cooper she got for her birthday from Nu-Nu & Bill.




It is such a blast to look at the Pepsi Plant through Emma's eyes. Screaming at the top of her lungs in joy.The Hardest part is saying goodbye! Phil had to take a picture. It was waaay to funny!