Visit form the Kearns!!!

Naomi's long lost love came for a visit!  Our good friends, the Kearns, live in St. Louis so we were very excited to find out that our house is now only 4 hours away from their house!  We are surely going to be able to visit more often now!  Lea's hubby was out of town so she drove in for a little visit!  It was so fun.  And Lea, you looked so great!  She totally helped jump start my weight watcher goals for our Christmas vacation to the Virgin Gorda Island!  I thank you!!!  

Here are some pix of the kids.  I regret that I didn't get any pictures of Lea and I but next time!!

Pics of Maddie and Naomi

Michael as a Ghost

Michael as Buzz Light Year

Michael had two costumes this year because he really wanted to be a ghost and his preschool did not allow ghosts.  I got him this Buzz costume for school.  Do you think he was willing to wear it? Of course not, but sure enough the next day he wanted to be Buzz.  Luckily his school didn't mind him being "Casper" the friendly ghost!

We were looking at this beautiful butterfly that was just chilling there.

Jared officially finished his Ph.D!

J defended this afternoon and officially passed the last step towards earning his Ph.D!  He is en-route to Kansas as we speak!  I am so proud of him!

Just an update...

Below is a picture of the view from our backyard on the west side.  The backyard backs up to a forest with a bike trail that we have had a lot of fun with.  Here are a few pictures from our latest bike ride.

Below is a picture of some wild turkeys that we just saw on our bike ride.  Crazy!!!!  

My sweetheart came home!!!!

As many of you know Jared had to stay behind in College Station in order to finish his dissertation.  We have been missing him terribly.  We have been separated for 5 weeks.  As of last week we still did not know when it would all be over.  I was feeling so bad that he would be spending his birthday alone and so stressed out.  Then wouldn't you know it he just walked through the door on Thursday night to surprise us with a weekend visit!  I was so surprised and so shocked.  I could not believe my eyes.  It took me a little bit to realize it was really him.  I have never been so surprised in all my life.  Then to make matters even better I found out that he is defending this Friday and then coming home for good!  We had a great time and Michael kept telling him every where we went to stay here and not to go to work anymore, it was so cute!

 

Here is a picture of our little surprise we had waiting in the garage for him!