THE BIG BDAY SURPRISE!!!

Patrick's very first car was an old CJ5 Jeep...he still had it when we first started dating in college and at times I thought he liked the Jeep more than me (jk!) But I heard so many stories about how he spent weekends fixing it up and riding it around. Unfortunately the jeep eventually had to go as it wasn't the most reliable car for getting back and forth between Lubbock and Dallas. But for the past 10 years Patrick has talked about getting another one. So a few months ago I decided I would look for a jeep to buy Patrick for his 30th birthday...and never in a million years did I think I would find one that was the exact same colors as his old jeep. It isn't an old CJ5 but it looks pretty similar. I found it at a dealership while we were out of town over New Years Eve and thought I'd buy it and keep it at my sisters until his bday but I knew he would find out so I decided to just give it to him the night I bought it. He took Emma to dance and he thought Bryan and I were going to the grocery store...little did he know "grocery store" was code for "jeep dealership"! Needless to say he was shocked when he went to pull his car in and another was in it's spot!! He still has his Saab to drive back and forth to work but on those super nice days, which we've had more of this January then every before, he takes the jeep out!!

Catch up time...NY eve in Missouri

Two days after Christmas we loaded up the van for it's first road trip and headed up to Missouri. First we stopped in Columbia a spent a few days with Chelsey and Brandon. Then we headed on to Kansas City for one of my best friends from high school's, Sara, wedding. The weather was beautiful (considering if could have been below freezing and snowing this time of year) and the kids were great travelers!!

Catch up time...Christmas!

January has flown by...seems like Christmas was forever ago but I don't want to skip a Christmas post so here are some pics for our Christmas. The whole family came down with strep throat the Wednesday before Christmas so we did a lot of hanging around the house in the days before Christmas eve...thus the pic where we made a billion cookies!! We went to Christmas eve mass at SMG and then spent Christmas morning at Nana and Boompas and Christmas afternoon/evening at Grandma and Grandpas and then the Weeds house. Both kids really got into Santa this year and it was so fun to see their excitement!!