Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Christmas Day

We spent Christmas morning at my parents house.  It was a nice Christmas morning.  After opening Christmas morning gifts, some of my first cousins came with their kids for a Christmas brunch.

Brook's Christmas

Isabella's Christmas

I also prepared a stocking for my parents

and for Avery too!

Santa came!






Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Christmas Eve

First, a reminder............

After a year of school, we will be so glad to summer come!!

Also, if you didn't see it, there was a post on www.bogotabridges.com yesterday.


Alright, now back to my Christmas recap!  Today, I'm sharing photos from Christmas Eve:

Brook and Eden

Niece/Aunt
Sorority Sisters!!
So fun to finally have a KD photo with Anna!

My parents with all their grandchildren.

Me & Brett, who I referred to as our "cabana boy"!

Pretty girls!
Naomi, Anna, and Isabella

Nicole & Tyler

Me & my nephew, Micah

Christmas Eve food...yum!!

These girls love each other so much!

Opening Christmas gifts

Avery got his own shirt back which he had given to Tyler this summer :).

Dad showing Brett old photos.

Love these hermanos!

These goodbyes are so hard :(

Tyler, Avery, & the shirt!

There was a beautiful moon as we were leaving my sister and brother-in-laws home.

We then went to a Christmas Eve dinner with some friends.  This was our 2nd time to spend Chrismtas Eve dinner with these folks.

Me, Natalie & Ashley

Tomorrow, I'll re-cap Christmas Day and try to work my way through Memphis photos by the end of the week.  Happy Tuesday!

Monday, January 18, 2016

Happy New Year!

Yes, it's mid January, but it's my first blog in a month and therefore, first blog post in 2016!

A lot has happened in a month, and for sure a lot of pictures, and there were many moments I didn't even capture on camera!  I will do my best to be done blogging about Christmas vacation by February :).  So, this first round of pictures are from some days leading up to Christmas. Enjoy!
One of my favorite parts of packing....switching over from Colombian to US currency!

Finally time to board for Memphis!

Needless to say, I had ordered just a few packages to be delivered to my parents home :).

When I go back to Memphis, the first thing I do is put on my wedding ring again.  

After church Sunday, we went to our Sunday lunch place, Holiday Ham.  Here is Brook with the Janovich kids.

Isabella is with Ellie and her little sister.  I was able to eat with the moms of these girls!

Our sweet friend, Lauren, drove down from St. Louis to see us for a night. We met her during our first training with MTW and she served in Honduras.

We took photos in front of the pretty Peabody tree.


They always have a huge gingerbread display.


Walking in Memphis with my feet on Beale!

Aw, us in Memphis at the river....perfection.

It was the neatest thing.  We saw the riverboat leave and it was playing Christmas music.  It was a pretty magical moment.

The next morning, Brook met us at the Peabody.

My dear friend, Ashley, brought her and we enjoyed the pretty decorations.

Brook and her friends with the moms all went to lunch together. 

Here is Brook....waiting on Eden to arrive!

Cousins are together again!

Then we made the pilgrimage to Graceland for Christmas.








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