WAY BEHIND...

I know I'm behind but we have been extremely busy. Here it goes with Christmas....
Zak and I had Christmas at our house this year! It was fun to get the house decorated and bring out the Christmas dishes, place mats and lights for the dinners and lunches! My mom and Dad along with Uncle Greg, Aunt Margot and Cousin Jeremy came up to enjoy the festivities! We had our traditional Escargot Christmas Eve dinner with a very yummy turtle pumpkin pie that I made. Thanks to Kristin for that one, Zak LOVED the one you made so I had to make it too!!

Yummy dinner on Christmas Eve

We ate way to much food and retired early so that Santa could come :)



We had "festive" coffee as my dad called it and no I don't mean spiked. It had a little peppermint extract added to it! So we had coffee and bagels for breakfast and around 9:30 or 10am decided to see what Santa brought us!! It was a good time and I think Mom made out this year Santa must really like her! Zak and I bought each other the same movie, I think that means we really like it!


Zak insisted on having fried Turkey for Christmas Day lunch and the men cooked in the garage while Mom, Margot and myself did the rest of the cooking in the kitchen! Margot was kind enough to make a traditional German dish for Christmas, no one could quite pronounce it correctly but her, so Zak decided to call it Bin Laden. It's real name is Rouladen and it was tasty. Thanks Margot, we are so glad you could join our crazy family for Christmas :) Here are some more pictures, Merry Christmas!

White Christmas!!!

On Friday we had tickets to get see White Christmas at the dinner theatre with my parents! It just happened to snow 7.5-8" on Wednesday night into Thursday ending around 8:00pm Thursday night. This was Fort Collin's first snow of the winter season which meant the first snow clearing adventure for the business! It went well and poor Zak was up for 48 hours with only 3 hours of sleep. He managed to get in about an hour nap before the dinner theatre started. We had a lot of fun and it was a good show! My mom and dad look so cute all dressed up! Mom bought a new dress just for the occasion. I think Zak enjoyed this show even though he was a little tired. Thanks Pits for accompaning us once again, we love having you.

Thanksgiving

So I realize I am way behind but decided to just post a few pictures to follow the video of domino's! We spent the Thanksgiving Holiday in Black Forest with Peter and Libby. My parents came and Eleanor as well! I made the centerpieces from Mom's home grown pumpkins and Libby made all the food. The gravy that Libby makes is the BEST and I think it has to do with the Vegemite, it taste fantastic! There was a lot of good food and good times as you can see from the video below! Here are a few pictures of the festivities....



Nice glasses Santa!


That is really special Mom

On Friday morning Zak and I woke up early. We had decided to take the new car on it's first road trip. We went to Breckenridge from Springs and visited the Breckenridge Brewery for a few beers and a souvenir pint glass for the kitchen! It was a fun trip and the snow was great especially with the snow to start off the Christmas Season. The ride home was a little frustrating with a seasonal road closure, HORRIBLE snow storm and Zak's speeding ticket....80 in a 55 :( All in all it was a really fun day that we got to spend together and got us in the Christmas spirit!

Molly in her favorite spot in the car, laying on the floor in the back seat!


The drive down into Breckenridge

Goose calling....well sort off

Zak was testing out all of his calls and Molly started helping!!! Enjoy I thought it was hillarious!!

Our 1st Anniversary

Well we made it! Did you ever doubt that we wouldn't???? They say the first year is the hardest and we are past that and are no longer newlyweds! Zak got me my plane ticket and got the windows tinted on my Murano! He also bought me a new plant and a CARD, he hates buying cards but he knows the rules :) I got Zak this really cool picture of all the things that lead up to us being married, I got it off of yourmemorylane.com. It is really cool and he actually enjoyed it as much as I did.

He also took me to The Melting Pot for some Yummy Fondue, but that was after we enjoyed Key Lime Pie cupcakes and S.O.B beer in our toasting glasses (which is the picture above)


Zak enjoying his cupcake


At the restaurant we got the VIP treatment, we sat in a private booth with a curtain, Zak told the waitress to knock before entering....joking of course :)


Zak and his "McCain Bread"


Yummy!!!


"1 year down 50 to go," That is what Zak said when he woke me up with a kiss on Tuesday!

I hope everyone has a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving!

New Vacuum!

For our anniversary we bought each other a new vacuum, even though Zak never uses it we still needed one BADLY. The one that I have had for about a year was around $100 dollars and for a house with 3 dogs it didn't last long! I really was just going to go back and buy another cheap one but Zak had a different idea, so we got a DYSON!!! Of course I have pictures of it, like my mom said I used to get excited about a new doll and now I am getting excited about a new vacuum! Here it is.



And of course here is Zak vacuuming or torturing the dog you be the judge :)