Winter!

In November, we took a trip to Park City, UT. Every year, Blake's company (Southern Botanical) goes on a "retreat", and this year it was to Park City. Since it's Blake's first year, I'm not sure where they've gone in the past, but I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the trip! We stayed at the St. Regis, which itself was just amazing. I couldn't get over how much I loved the hotel, and how much I could REALLY get used to staying in hotels like this.

Entrance into the hotel...

Ze pool

A chair in the bar area

Steamy heated pool

Part of the Lobby

I love the actual town of Park City, also. It's got a very quaint, "small-town" feel, and I just really enjoyed it. I wish we had at least a week to fully discover Park City and the surrounding areas (including Sundance - which happened to be closed during our trip for "pre-season maintenance"). I also wish that it was ski season at the time of our trip, and not a week prior. It's probably better it wasn't though, thinking back, because I probably would not have wanted to leave. Ever.

Visit to Utah Olympic Park, site of the 2002 Winter Olympics

The luge track

The funicular at our hotel - an interesting experience

A pub on Main Street

Main Street in Park City

One of Robert Redford's restaurants, where we had dinner our last night

The next couple of months brought visiting with friends, Christmas, New Years, and some snow! Although it wasn't a white Christmas in New Braunfels, we were able to see a lot of family and enjoyed the time. The snow came later, in either January or early February I believe...I don't actually remember. BUT, I just know there was a freeze, then snow, and I enjoyed several days working from home! :) Here are more pictures, because sometimes, or maybe even a lot of times, they express more than words. Either that or they're just more interesting.

Even though this is a "winter" post, I love the fall colors of the leaves in this one...Nellie chewing on a stick is nothing new...

New Braunfels girls!

@ Simply Fondue in Dallas with Garrett & Elizabeth Latham

Blake ran a 5-mile leg of a relay in the Dallas White Rock Lake Marathon

Nellie was overly-excited about Christmas coming soon

My cousin Katie graduated from Texas State and we celebrated

Prost.

The dog park downtown, on some December night...

The positions we catch her sleeping in are just hilarious sometimes

See...?

Me & my Grandpa on Christmas day

The "kids table", even though we're now much older...physically at least.

With my cousin Aimee in Dallas on New Years :)

New Years @ Aimee's house

We left the house for 2 hours on New Years day, and thought it would be ok to leave Nellie out. This was the result of that mistake...

This is just sweet...Blake & Stewie

Nellie LOVED the snow!

Always playing

Playing in the snow in the parking lot across from our apartment bldg.

Me and my girl

View of the snow from our bedroom window

Snow days are a great excuse to make chicken & dumplings!

Wow, It's Been A While!

We're back! I can't even give a good excuse as to why it's been almost 8 months since I've been on here. I mean, the past couple of months have been crazy, but what about the other six? I'll just blame it on the holidays. Here's a quick recap of significant things - I will try my best to remember as much as possible. :)

We left off at Labor Day, when my cousin Katie came up for a visit. Later that month, I took my first trip to Savannah, Georgia for my dear friend Jamie's birthday. Her husband, Matt, deployed on July 4th, and ever since then I'd been wanting to make a trip out there to see her - so why not for her birthday?! We had an amazing time and I LOVE Savannah! This was also the trip where Mae Mae and Geraldine (our finger puppets) came to life. You will see them in many more pictures in the future. Here are some from my visit:

River Street

River Street

Moon River Brewing Co. Beer Flight

The Crab Shack Seafood Platter - So Delish!

@ The Crab Shack

On the pier at Tybee Island

Really?

A live sand dollar! Very cool!

Paula Deen Y'ALL

 

The Lady & Sons Restaurant

The next month was the State Fair and football. One great thing about the State Fair this year was that I finally got to watch the Pig Races! We didn't get to watch them the year before because we chose the absolute worst day to go - the day of the OU/UT football game. Ugh - never again! This year, things were significantly less crowded, we were much more relaxed, and got to actually plan things to go to.

2010 State Fair of Texas

Fried bacon!

A candy apple was a must for me. The beer was just a bonus.

Me, Blake, Kyle, & Kristen at ze pig races!

The last round, featuring an unlikely contender...

We only made it to two football games this year, which was sad, but we just couldn't make it work for any others. Luckily, Jamie was there for the Tech game so I got to see her again!

Nellie with her jersey on, ready to head to College Station

Mae Mae's Halloween costume :)

Me and Jamie with Mae Mae & GG (bacon & a peacock for Halloween)

Out at Northgate

The morning of the Tech game, we took our Christmas card "family" photos. We brought Stewie and Nellie along with us for the weekend, and the pictures turned out pretty cute! We'll just have to see if this is something we'll continue doing in the future though...Nellie was still VERY much a puppy, and Stewie is so sensitive to the heat - maybe next year we'll do it later in the year so it's cooler and pop Nellie and Benadryl so she'll behave better. :) More pictures!

We also celebrated two birthdays this month - one in Texarkana for our niece, Holland, and one in New Braunfels for our nephew, Hunter. I'm glad we were able to see both of them and celebrate their days with our families!

I will end this post with the last events of "fall", Wurstfest and Thanksgiving. Blake and I traveled down to New Braunfels to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the "10 Day Salute to Sausage" and had a great time. We went with my cousin Katie...had some beers, ate some sausage, and listened to some good 'ol German live tunes.

We also spent Thanksgiving in New Braunfels, but I couldn't seem to find any pictures. I was probably too busy eating! HA!