Papa's Birthday

The whole family went to dinner to celebrate Papa's 58th birthday. It was nice to get together since Joe and I are moving tomorrow morning!

Last week in KS

We had Adam, Kristi & Auggie over for tacos & margaritas. Taco bar, yum!

For Christmas we got my dad a really neat decal that says "Papa Tom's Bar" that gives the mirror an etched glass look. Here are the first customers at Papa's bar ;)

I like this shot of the Lost Trail Saloon sign with icicles.

Pretty sunlight on the field by Lake Miola

Beautiful Kansas sunset

Our new home!

This will be our new view as of Jan 22nd! We are moving to Longmont, CO. I took a job as a designer at a company that specializes in built-ins, cabinets and closets. Joe will be teaching temporary jobs until he can find a full time position. We are really excited about the move! Ann got us snowshoes for Christmas so we will stay healthy and active! I'm excited to hike more and I know Joe is really excited for all of the awesome fly fishing in his future.

We are going to rent this cute little house. There is a guest bedroom so please come visit us!

Dog Sitting

Right now Joe and I are dog and house sitting for my parents while they are on their trip to New Zealand. It has been a lot of fun, they are pretty cute. It's freezing here so the lucky pups have been spending a lot of time with us inside. I'm glad we are doing this test run because I think I know we don't want the responsibility of 3 dogs anytime soon!

Pretty cold and sunny today!

Stretch!

It's an exhausting job! ;)

Madison Christmas

We had a wonderful visit to Madison to see Joe's family for Christmas. It's so nice to get to see both sides of our family for the holidays!!

Building a gingerbread house

World's largest gingerbread man!

Pre-Christmas Celebration!

Joe and I got to have 2 Christmases this year! We were in Madison for Christmas day and we had an early Christmas celebration with my family here.

Papa with his puppy

My friend Kristi with her cute baby, Auggie

Joe has really gotten into duck hunting with my dad, here they are "waxing" the ducks to remove the feathers

A few weeks later Joe roasted one of his ducks with an Asian Ginger Glaze-yum!