Bearing Rings

Love is in the air.  Matt's brother Chris and his fiance Rachelle got married yesterday.  It was a beautiful wedding, they are a beautiful couple, and they have pretty good taste in ring bearers. 

Evan did such a great job at the wedding and was the most handsome ring bearer I've ever come across!  The boys all had so much fun with all the festivities that come with a wedding in the family.  We are so glad that Chris found such a sweet girl with such a lovely family.  Rachelle has one sister and six brothers!  Chris fits right in with all the crazy fun they have.  We feel pretty lucky to be gaining Rachelle into our family too.

The boys all dressed up and ready to go!

Wedding party.

Our nephew Tyler looking awfully handsome!

Jacob and Daddy dancing at the reception.

Colin getting his groove on!  He was a total ham and everyone was impressed with his moves.

Evan and Tyler.

Congratulations Chris and Rachelle!  We love you and are so happy for both of you.

An award

Today I got a pleasant surprise while checking my blogs. The lovely Heather over at All A Flutter passed on a blog award to me. I'm flattered really. I don't get many awards these days so I'll take what I can get. :)

Along with this award, I'm supposed to reveal seven random things about me. Oh, boy!

1. When we got married, I was 19 and Matt was 21. We were practically babies!

2. In third grade we had to draw a picture of what we wanted to be when we grew up. I drew myself with a broom, and a baby. I wrote that I wanted to be a homemaker. I only wavered on that in middle school when, for a short time I wanted to be an O.B. nurse.

3. I love hearing birth stories! I secretly hope that someone (anyone at all) will ask me to be in the delivery room with them. I would love to be a labor coach.

4. I would choose pickles and olives (black or green) for a snack over cookies and brownies every time.

5. I hardly ever change CD's in the van or mess with the radio. I catch myself singing along to Veggie Tales a lot, when I'm driving...whithout any kids.

6. I love looking through cookbooks and cooking magazines, I love going grocery shopping but I DO NOT like cooking!

7. I'm not a picky eater at all. I like almost everything. The one thing that I have never liked was peanut butter.

Thanks Heather that was fun! Now I get to give this award to seven other bloggers!

Designer Mama

This Side of the Rainbow

This is my Life

Peanut Butter Jam

Handi Andi

Life as a Reimer

My Fuller Life

Family time

We had a great time over Christmas break. Matt had the week off between Christmas and New Years so we had tons of great family time. I'm convinced that the "stay cation" is the way to go. I'm sure this doesn't surprise anyone who knows me as the homebody I am.

The boys and I started out our break by making "white trash". We munched on it for the whole two weeks. You start with these,

mix it with this,

to create this yummy treat!

Warning: You may have to spread it out with your hand which will result in this,

but you can just enlist the help of an eager eater to do this,

Problem solved!

We had a great Christmas, celebrating with lots of family! We had four different family celebrations and then our family's' on Christmas morning.

Matt and I took the boys to see the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. They loved it and it was Colin's first movie in the theater. He did great! We also took them to see Sesame Street Live. It was super fun! We took Evan and Jake to see a Sesame Street Live show two years ago and decided that Colin would really enjoy it this year. We were right!

It was great to start out the new year coming off such an awesome family time. Happy 2010!