Christmas 2008

We had a wonderful Christmas this year.  We did our tradition of pre-Christmas and Christmas Eve with the Christopher Family in Nederland and Christmas day and post-Christmas with my family in Georgetown.   It works perfectly, so we get time with both of our families every Christmas!  We had tons of great food.........and got more gifts than we deserved!

Christopher Family Picture

Chris & Melissa
Loaded up with gifts from Mr. & Mrs. Clause Christopher

This would be Mrs. Clause.......aka Clint's mom.  She even managed to find me a Wii Fit!

Trevin got his girlfriend a puppy for Christmas.  It was super cute!

Christmas at the Jones' was extra special because my Mom and Dad flew Alan (my youngest brother) home from Germany.  It was really great to have the whole family together.

Mike handing out his gifts.

Alan brought us back our very first baby gift.  It is a little bear that was handmade at an orphanage in Germany.  
Carrie & Jeremy
Alan handing out all the gifts he picked up in Germany.  

We spent the weekend on my parents farm........the boys were hunting and girls staying warm.

My parents house from the deer stand.

Wii Fit in Action

Clint is that little speck out the window.........sitting in a deer stand.  You have to use your imagination on this one

We are having a baby!!!

We feel so incredibly blessed that we are going to have a baby!!!  Due date is July 1st.

Romantic Sunsets are Back!

Clint and I have reinstated the romantic sunsets. A few months into dating, Clint began a tradition of us having monthly sunsets on the rooftop of a building on the top of the garage of my apartment. Clint would always bring a bottle of wine and a blanket and we would sit up there and talk for hours. It was one of my favorite things that we did together and we always had the sweetest conversations. In October of 2006 Clint actually proposed to me on that rooftop. I was expecting another casual rooftop evening and was shocked to climb off that roof with a ring on my finger and visions of our wedding playing in my head.

So fast forward two years, and we have become a bit relaxed about our monthly sunsets. Clint has been busy with school and we didn't have that perfect spot. We always have sunset moments on vacations and anniversaries, but I decided that we need to go back to once a month. So here are the pictures the first "Reinstated Sunset".

Corpus Christi

My parents came to see us in Victoria back in October (yes, I am behind on my blogging) and since we are only a little over an hour away from Corpus Christi, we decided to take a day trip over.


We visited the USS Lexington Ship

We were locked up in the ship prison.

My parents didn't like being locked up much more than we did!

We visited the beach before going out to eat delicious seafood!