New Years Eve

We got together with Brandon and Lisa Rigg, Clay, and Nate and Laura Ridderman at the Ridderman's to ring in the New Year. The evening was filled with board games and Wii playing as well as us nearly missing the ball dropping! Laura made it down with 4 seconds to spare. It was quite fun. We played a new (to us) card game called "BANG," which we found very fun, even though Clay won. Also, Laura, Abby and I had a lot of fun playing "Boomblox" for the Wii. This game provided many laughs late into the night! Below are a couple of pictures before we left, one serious and one goofy. If you look closely, you can see Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter made an appearance for the second picture!

The Last 3 months plus!

Hey friends- Sorry about such a long gap between blogs, but I finally made myself sit down to post. So, the following is the last few months in pictures with some captions.... Enjoy!

Clockwise from top: Rooster as a "rooster" for Halloween; our new dining table we got
in October; Abby and I on the "Incline" in Pittsburgh in October visiting Melissa, Eric,
and the boys; Eric, Nolan, and baby Simon.

The next five are just some selected photos from Christmas Eve and Christmas morning:

Ellis stuffing his face!

followed by Jake doing the same!

everyone around the table...

it was so good to see Heather and the boys! They're so grown up!


Abby holding our "rooster" ornament present from Rooster

Abby showing off one of her gifts from Megan