Merry Christmas!!!

This year, with all that has been going on in our life, it just hasn't quite felt like the holiday season. As I drove home from yet another temp job on Tuesday, the radio DJ was commenting on Christmas firsts. I thought about all the firsts of this Christmas for Hubby and I. It's the first Christmas where we haven't had a house, where our Christmas tree/decorations have stayed in their boxes, where Hubby had to work, where our life is in utter chaos. But with all of the "non" Christmas feelings, it's here and even past at this point. It still didn't feel like Christmas throughout the day. I have to ask my self, even though it wasn't the "ideal" Christmas, what is? The first Christmas probably wasn't ideal either. I just have to remember that Christ is still in the day and in my life. Just because it wasn't "perfect," it was God's perfect day for me.

I hope you had God's perfect Christmas day for you as well.

BRONCO GAME

Brrr...I'm still trying to warm up after sitting in the freezing cold and trying not to be too depressed about the loss. But I can say my first game was a blast! :)

Shelisa and I posed in front of the blue and orange limo.

We all used bandannas to keep our noses and mouths warm. We were the bronco bandits.

We were only 11 rows from the field!!!

Thunder was on the field a lot with antlers! :)

And Miles was dressed as Santa!

The players ran out through the tunnel with fog and flames.

We were ready for a great game, especially after Cutler's first touch down!

Shelisa and I felt the need to go all out in our Bronco's gear! :)

We were ready for the cold and survived the game. We had a blast and we were just excited to be there!

Merry Christmas!

Love Melps

What?!?!

If you really know me, you know how I LOVE the Denver Broncos. However, I have never been to a game. It has been a dream of mine for a long, long time. I thought that moving to Denver I might have a small chance of marking it off my bucket list, but the tickets are so expensive it just hasn't happened.

Then today, I get this text message from my dad: "Do u want broncos tix 4 sunday? Let me no asap. There r 4 tix n prking pass..." You can imagine my spastic response of "YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!" :) I had to call him and asking what kind of question that was in the first place. Do I want tickets????? Hello!!!! :) So now I have a countdown going till Sunday when I get to see my favorite football team in the world! :)

I'll let you know how it goes! :)

It's freezing outside...

Thus finally an update! :)

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I did all the cooking for Thanksgiving! All by my self! I even made rolls from scratch!

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The day after Thanksgiving was a great day! I hit my favorite store, Jo-Anne's, for the blessed flannel sale and got a stack! :) Then came home and decorated my parents house for Christmas!

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My nephew is rolling over and starting to try to crawl, which is just plain funny!

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We've had lots of snow here in Colorado. I finally convinced hubby to go play in it with me. The snow that day was just powder and wouldn't stick so my snow lady stayed small.

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I finally finished all the nieces and nephews Christmas presents. I made them this year and stayed up till way too late most nights sewing! :)

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My love of photography has continued and my nephew is the perfect model and a total ham! I was also asked to do the Christmas photos for my sister. I've had a blast!

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Today the high was zero degrees. I'm sitting inside, bundled up in long johns, jeans, sweatshirt, beanie, and quilt!

Love,

Melps!

Turkey Bowl!

Today Hubby and I joined a little game of church flag football. It is a traditional game, played adults vs. teens. Apparently the adults won last year. Unfortunately that was not the case today. Hubby and I played our hearts out. There was a rule that a girl had to touch the ball within each 4 downs, and guess what, I was the only girl on our team. I ran, I caught, I blocked, I even threw the ball. But to no avail. I don't know what the end score was but we were slaughtered. Hubby and I did have fun though. We even got to know a couple more people at church, which was the original goal. I do know that I..AM..EXHAUSTED! And SORE!!! :)

Hubby and the baby

If you know my husband very well you know that he won't really hold babies under a year old. It took a lot of persuading to get him to hold his brother's sons before they were a year old. This being the case, it's been interesting living with my sister and her son. Hubby has actually taken to holding him and hanging out with him. It makes my heart warm to see him be just a great uncle. I've always thought he would make a great daddy, but this just confirms my feelings. When the time finally come for us to be parents I know he'll be wonderful. :)

Birthday weekend

Well, I must say I had a blast of a birthday weekend! Friday we had dinner and Martinis with family and a couple of friends. Hubby made kabobs and risotto and lemon drop martinis.

He also made my birthday cake which was turtle (a.k.a. chocolate, Carmel, and pecans), topped off with coffee ice cream for me. :) We played some Bond trivia (thanks to my sister-in-law Kim for putting it together for us).

I opened some SWEET presents (Cutler jersey, trench coat, scratch tickets, and roses).

Then it was off to the late night showing of the newest Bond movie Quantum of Solace. I thought it was GREAT!!! It was a continuation of Casino Royale, so Hubby and I explained the plot and a couple key points to our friends Tracy and Radu on the way to the theater. It was an intense and action packed 2 hours. But worth every minute.

Saturday I was all over the country side taking pictures for my dad's work again. I can tell I'm a country girl at heart, when even though I get lost on the back roads I enjoy the whole trip. This time I saw a lot of wild life (though unfortunately no pictures of them). I saw buffalo, deer, a coyote, long horns, and lots of cows.

The beauty of the country is always soothing to the soul, although sitting in a car for 5.5 hours is not. :(

Today was spent at church and then home to catch the last of the Broncos game...

which I personally believe that my jersey brought good luck for! What a great birthday weekend!!! :-D

26 Years Ago...

...I came into the world in the midst of a snow storm. Since then I have loved snow! I love the cold beauty of silent falling flakes, the clean white sparkle of a freshly fallen snow. This morning, I woke up to the first snow of the year. I grabbed my nephew, who is really seeing snow for the first time, and went and danced in the backyard. He giggled with me as the flakes covered our heads and tickled our noses. It is suppose to be warmer again tomorrow and the snow is already melting. But I think God knew how much the simple gift of snow would mean to me. He's pretty great like that. :)

This is why I leave cooking to Hubby...

I found a recipe in one of my mom's cookbooks that I thought sounded good. Apple Pumpkin Soup. Most people I've talked to since thought it sounded gross, but at the time my mom and I thought it sounded good so it was created.

Apples were diced and sliced.

And sauteed with onions

Pumpkin was added

And I should have known it wasn't going to turn out too swell when I had to blend it to get rid of the chunks....

I thought it looked like baby food, but it smelled great!

The test came as supper. It was just Shelisa, Mom and I. Shelisa was the first to say that she thought it was gross. (My sister is not one to mince words.) Mom soon followed with the comments about how it didn't taste right and "wouldn't it be nice with out the onions." After half my bowl it started to wither with me too.... It just wasn't that great. There goes my daring with cooking. I'm sticking with what I know from now on...Hubby cooking. :)

Pumpkins, Pumkins everywhere...

Last night Shelisa and I went to get our pumpkins.

I fell in love with the lopsided one and Shelisa liked the big fat one.

Tonight we cleaned off the table, got out the knives, and prepared to carve the beauties.


Shelisa wanted to do one that would showcase her wonderful artistic abilities. She was working and working, it was looking wonderful. I could have sworn it was going to be the best pumpkin I had ever seen. Then...


It broke and she almost swore. And those of you who really know her, realize that it was pretty good that she just "almost swore." :)


Mine I would like to dedicate to my dear friend, A. It is Captain Gourd. My pirate jack-o-lantern. I am pretty proud of it. I think it's the best I've ever done!


Shelisa's is hard to see here, she did put it back together with toothpicks. :) It's a kid peaking out from between his hands.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!