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March 18, 2012

Farm Visit with Wael

What a wonderful New Year's Eve!! We woke up late in the morning and hung out for awhile. We ate some breakfast and while Erin was showering, we realized it was snowing! Wael has never seen snow before!!!

Stephanie had Wael go outside to take a picture in it. Except you can't really see the snow... but we know it was snowing during this picture haha
After eating some breakfast, Erin, Wael, and I left Stephanie's house and traveled back to our hometown. I immediately jumped into the shower and took a long nap. Ahhh it was nice to relax after an exciting night! Apparently we couldn't get enough of each other because that night, we got back together at Stephanie's house for our traditional game night! Bridget and Tony joined us for a hilarious time.

For some reason LMFAO's music video for "Sexy and I know it" came up in convo and we watched it on Adam's new iPad!  It was HILARIOUS

Something is cracking me up. We did a lot of laughing that night

We have no pictures of us actually playing games... but we sure documented us drinking! Jello shots!

We definitely had a great time. I love game night! What did we actually play? I can't even remember the names of the games, but they were so fun. That night, I crashed (again) on my beloved futon. I'm lucky to have such gracious hosts who let me stay over all the time!

The fun didn't end there! The next morning, Erin, Wael, and I went to the farm to check it out. I pretty much love anything having to do with the farm and I was excited to show Wael all about it! He has heard about "the farm" and needing to go "feed" so I wanted to show him what I was talking about all of the time.

Wael and Erin posing in front of the farm. It was freezing!!!!

We ventured into the barn first to meet some of the cattle. Otto was excited to say hi!

Wael wasn't sure about the large steer, but they got along just great. :)

"Why you no bring me food?!?"
The newest cow to our heard is Bertha. I wanted her to come say hi but she is pretty shy. She didn't leave the spot she was standing in here!

We went upstairs in the barn to show what it looked like. I show them what some of the food looked like!

Our next stop was the horses in pasture. I brought Prince over to say hi

The wonderful couple meeting Price!!!

No one else wanted a picture with the pigs, but we did visit them. :)
Of course we picked the coldest day of our winter! We were freezing! But I think Wael enjoyed seeing the animals. Maybe in August we can go back when it's not freezing cold! He said in July we could possibly go horse back riding in Cairo!

Can't wait until he is back for another visit!!

March 5, 2012

3...2...1... HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I have been lucky enough to celebrate New Years Eve with Stephanie's husband's family. He has four brothers and they have adopted me into their family. One of my favorite traditions is New Year's Eve at Tony and Jessica's house. However, this year was a little different... Erin was in town with her boyfriend fiance, Wael! Usually we just hang out, play games, drink and eat... but we wanted to be more exciting for Wael this year!


Wael, Erin, and me on New Year's!
So instead, this year, we went to a local restaurant for a lovely dinner and dancing afterward. It was so much fun!

My date! Jessica's husband had to work and well... I'm single so we were each other's dates!
We enjoyed a delicious dinner as a "couple" haha.
Stephanie went around and took pictures with all the couples! Ha
Look! Erin and Stephanie got a picture together!
Erin and Wael hanging out after eating!
Two of my favorite people EVER!
We had a pretty big group!! It was wonderful. We laughed, ate, and drank into midnight.

Our wonderful group! It was awesome to celebrate with them this year!
Jessica and I being cheesy with our champagne
If you couldn't tell, Jessica is pregnant, so I took it upon myself to drink her champagne. And I found another glass on our table, and drank that one too. Haha.
AWWW, fiances smooching at midnight
Stephanie and Adam toasting at midnight

One thing we didn't anticipate was the dancing portion of our night starting with country music. The group that stayed to dance are primarily country fans... but poor Wael hadn't been exposed yet! His face to the line dancing was priceless! Eventually it switched to dance music and we got our groove on until 3am!

Stephanie's interpretation of country dancing haha
CaNdiD!
Dancing all night long!
Once we got tired enough, we went back to Stephanie and Adam's house to crash. I was reunited with my favorite futon (hehe) and slept like a log. The next morning we ate some breakfast and snacks, talked about the night's fun. It was another wonderful celebration with my pretend cousins! Can't wait to see how it goes in future years. :)

Stay tuned to find out what the group did on New Year's Day!!!

March 3, 2012

Christmas Day 2011

Thought you were almost done, huh? Sorry, but there's one more post to go about Christmas!! I can't forget about Christmas Day, can I?

As I mentioned previously, I started to get sick on Christmas Eve. To make matters worse, I had to get up and feed the livestock at the farm that morning. I was looking forward to a quiet morning, snow on the ground, and happy, peaceful animals. Wellll, few of those actually happened. It was FREEZING outside that morning and I think I stopped to blow my nose about 100 times. Blowing snot out of my nose sort of killed the peaceful mood I had hoped for. :) Luckily the animals were perfectly happy and peaceful that morning.

When I got home that morning, everyone was still sleeping, so I dove back into bed to warm up. I willed myself to stay awake... or I knew I would pass out and be asleep for hours!

A little while later, everyone work up and were ready to celebrate. Christmas mornings are always wonderful with my family!

Our Christmas tree on Christmas morning!

Picture of me coming down for the morning... with a box of tissues for my wicked cold!



Cheese!

Haha, Doug and his famous expressions

This isn't particularly a good picture of me, but I got a Kindle Fire and was SO EXCITED!

Doug got a paintball gun!
We finished off the day with a delicious dinner with my grandparents. I am definitely luck to have such memorable Christmases and an equally generous family!

How were your holidays?