Reconnecting with Friends!

A few weeks back our great friend growing up came back to town for a quick visit. Christine moved to Mexico to help out in an orphanage about 4 years ago. The result was her meeting the love of her life, a native Mexican- Antonio, and getting married to him. They now pastor a start up church in southern Mexico, about 10 hours from Cabo San Lucas. Christine and Antonio also had a baby girl about 18 months ago named Katherine and Christine is pregnant with baby #2, due early to mid March. We were so excited to get to host the Torre's once again, play with little Katherine who is just a hoot, and learn that they will be staying up here starting this month through April so Christine can have the baby here! SWEET!!!! We just love this family, and can't wait for more time with them!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

A Full New Home!

After Thanksgiving day, Aaron and I headed up to the Temecula Area to visit some of the girls from APU. Sara had brought Isabella down from Canada, and the day we arrived, so did her husband Matt. We had such a good time with everyone! Matt and Aaron took off one day, to hang at a local brewery (Aaron is brewing his own beer, and take a great interest in how other places do all that stuff) and Shauna, Sara, Isabella and I took to a little pre-Christmas shopping! Spending time with each other was so wonderful, and continues to remind of us of why we are all friends, and have stayed friends almost 5 years after college graduation.

The other reason we took a detour up to the Temecula area was becuse Shauna had just bought a new house!!! How exciting!! She has worked so hard these past 5 years and it has finally paid off. She is now the owner of a beautiful two story- four bedroom- two & a half bath- home, and has it fully outfitted!!! What a joy it was to get to share in the new step of her life, and her totally blessed home!

Muah, Muah- Kristin

Oh Baby!

I would like to officially declare this a Baby Boom!

One of my best friends from college, who was married to one gorgeous hunk last October, has just informed me that she is pregnant~!!!! Megan is 8 weeks along and is due in early July (right around her Own Brithday!) We are all so excited for her and Aaron (Yes, another aaron!!!)

In most people's books , I was next on the list for an upcoming pregnancy, but like I have told you all, Don't hold your breath!
Thanks Meg for taking the spotlight off me for a while, I am so excited to celebrate YOUR pregnancy!

Love Kristin

Happy Birthday Sean-Tay!

Two weekends ago we celebrated Sean T's 28th Birthday (man we are getting old!!!) He only had two requests. One was that we go to this brewing store and look into some brewing stuff so that he could brew his own beer like Aaron. We all walked out of there with one Honda Civic Trunk load of stuff! Aaron got a Pony Keg (google it if you don't know what it is), and Sean got a whole brewing kit and a Blonde Ale recipe. He and Aaron are going to set a date to brew another batch of beer (Aaron has completed one full batch and is waiting on a CO2 system to keg his second batch). I think Nate is now going to get in on this ....looks like we have our selves a regular Cheers! in the works!!!!
After we left the Brew Store, we met up with Erin & Nate, Andrew & Cassandra and Adam & Nicole at Speiskammer, and authentic german restaurant in Alameda. The food was DELISH! The staff was totally nice and accommodating and there was even a live band there! We had such a good time, eating good German food and drinking Great German Beer! This is definitely a place we will have to go back to, and next time take Davina (our German friend/family member)!


Nate & Erin...............................Adam & Nicole

Me & Aaron................................Erin & Sean

Erin & Sean.............................Andrew & Cassandra

A Dinner with the Kipp's

So Now we are going to head back a week and touch on the great night we had the Kipp.'s! Mike and Jos had us over for a great dinner (as always) and Aaron held the Baby practically the whole time....sounds like someone has the baby itch....good thing it is not me ! hahahaha!

Here are some great pictures of the night a great video of Justice showing off his Darth Vader (sorry I couldn't get it to flip) costume for us! Hilarious!

Kings Cup Rules....

The other night we all went over to Kaitlin's place (Paul's Fiancee) to hang out and meet one of her best friends from college. I got freakin sucked in to Kortney & Khole Do Miami (Erin S.'s fault- completely) while everyone else played a friendly (haha) game of Kings Cup (a card game). I am not sure who it was, but one of the girls (I believe) was the King (???- Dear god I really don't know what I am talking about!). Anyway they got to make a "Rule" and the rule was the last person out had to wear a Tecate Beer Box on their head for the whole turn or until someone else was the last person out (Erin is this game actually called A$$ hole?). So the box went around the table, but I think that Erin S wore it the most...and did we hear about it! I was in the other room and I could hear her frustrated outbursts! hahahaha!!!! Anyway, here are some great pictures from that night!

Nate.........................................Matt

Erin S.

Geeny Weeny!!!!

Thursday Night Aaron and I met in the city and had a great dinner with our friends Gina (who used to be my roommate) and her man Jason. We always have such a good time together and we never can figure out why it takes us so long to get together! We LOVE Gina and Jason and are really looking forward to spending more time with them soon. We ate at Houstons and had some fab American food, good drinks and mostly great fellowship together. I love how we can be apart for so long and then come together like we saw each other yesterday!

MOAH! Lots of Love- K

Our Friend David!

Recently our friend David came in to town for S.C. We wer so excited to see him! We spent one evening at the Rellik with him and Sunday morning breakfast at First Street Cafe with him too! It was so nice to cathc up with an old friend and to be reminded of all the things you miss so much about them! We all had some great laughs, shared some fabulous pictures, and just had an overall nice time catching up. It turns out that David is trying to make his way back to us! We can't wait for his return to California, more good times and great memories ahead!!!!!

Put on your dorkiest face so I can take a nice picture!

Keep Em' Coming

This post is merely to embarrass Erin and Sean, as I took the two worst pictures of them ever last weekend while we were hanging out! What fun we are having!!!! I fully intended to receive pay back in a major way, but don't wish it on myself at all!

Family, Fun and Bitter Sweet Goodbye's.

What a whirwind of a weekend we have had.

Friday night we were over at the Taylor's for dinner and Rummicube, which is quickly becoming our go to game. Little Emma was so bubbly and was loving bouncing up and down in our arms. Her chubby little legs are getting so strong I think she will be crawling in no time. She is such a delight, happy and never a tear! ANNDDD she goes right to sleep when they lay her down! WHATT!!!

Saturday Aaron and I lazed a little in the morning watching a gret thunderstorm blow threw, with lightning and all. That's probably one of my favorite things to do. After that I ran up costco and target to get prepartions for Katie's going away party that we had at The Rellik Tavern in town. We had such a nice turn out. Pretty much everyone was able to come including our family from So. Cal. I think Katie was really pleased.

After the party we went home and had some hamburgers and hotdogs with the fam and a couple of Katie's best friends. I think the ending to the night was bitter sweet for her, saying goodbye to her friends for a year. It sounds like everyone wants to use her as an excuse though to get across the "pond"! So that will be nice for her to think about and await their/our arrival.

Today is Sunday and we had breakfast with our Aunt, Uncle and Dad. It was so nice to eat an intimate meal with them. We took some great pictures on the waterfront before we all said goodbye. There is nothing like having the water as your back drop.

We are off to frisbee in an hour or so and then I hear rummors of another barbque tonight!

Day 4- Tennis, Swim, Veg....

...AND WHITE SANDS!!!!!!!!

As stated in the title, we did the regular this Sunday Morning- actually we even watched some of the Sunday Morning Program which is celebrating 30 years on air.

The day was pretty chill until we headed out to White Sands National Park to do some sand sledding!

The whole evening was sooooo awesome! We packed up an Italian lunch of bread from Zeffiro's in town, and procuito(sp?), salami and lots of cheese...oh yeah and Smoking Loon wine too! The dunes look like snow in the winter, and the sand is finer than any other sand that I have experienced. Aaron said it was like walking on velvet. We hiked out a little ways and found a killer dune with a great incline and blazed a trail down it. The more you use the same trail, the faster you go. Not to mention the friends of my mom's that loaned us the sleds waxed them up before we left- so they were super slick! Some other people followed after us, and used our trail so it kept getting faster. The Scenery was spectacular too. This post will have ALL White Sands picutres since it was the highlight of our day and freakin awesome!