Crazy Busy!

Hello all! It's been too long. I like my blog and I wish I'd had time to post sooner than now! So we've had a lot going on the last few weeks. Lots to catch up on! I'll try to keep it all semi-brief… although I tend to ramble so we’ll just see. Here we go!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas with both of our families! Cody and I decided to exchange our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve, that way when we got up on Christmas we could just get ready to go without feeling pressed for time. We decided to take Callie with us all day so that she wouldn't be stuck alone literally all day as we knew we wouldn't get home again until late. We went over to my parents for the morning and first portion of the day and had a wonderful Christmas morning and lunch with them! Unfortunately, Callie did NOT get along well with my family's two dogs -Smokey and Lucky. (Although I blame those two rather than Callie... she just wanted to play!) Smokey was scared to death of her and Lucky never stopped barking and growling. So poor Callie... we brought her with us so she wouldn't be left alone, but she definitely got locked up in the laundry room the whole time we were there just to keep all the dogs apart. Oh well. I think everyone's recovered from that by now! After lunch we headed over to the Hendersons for the rest of the day. We went through opening our stockings, presents, and then enjoyed dinner together. At that house there were three dogs as well. Sue and Steve have Maddie (a Dachshund like Smokey) and then also we had Cody's aunt and uncle's dog, D-O-G. Maddie was just as terrified of Callie as Smokey was. She would freeze up and not move a muscle as Callie tried to get her to play, then would run off relieved when Callie would finally walk away. D-O-G and Callie had a good time together though! They played and wrestled... well almost literally the entire time we were there. I don't know if Callie is capable of getting worn out! So that was our Christmas! We enjoyed the day with both our families and Callie met our other family dogs... hopefully after another meeting or so they will all get along much better.

(*Note: Part of why it's taken me this long to post recently is that I wanted to include some photos from Christmas, but I can't find my old camera to upload the pictures! It's driving me nuts and I'm officially annoyed that I've seemingly lost it in our apartment lol.  Anyways, so I finally decided to post without the pictures.)

Wedding Stuff (& New Year's as they overlapped!)

I feel like the whole second week of the break was wedding stuff! And while it was all fun and we enjoyed it, I felt like Cody and I hardly had any time together before school started up again. It was all great though and I guess that just seems to be how the week before a wedding goes. That Wednesday I helped throw a lingerie shower for Kari which was followed that evening by her bachelorette party. We went down to the River Walk and enjoyed a girls night out.

I had so much fun helping host Kari's shower!

Girls night out for Kari's Bachelorette party!

We enjoyed dinner and dancing down on the River Walk!

Thursday there was a dinner for Out-of-Town guests and family and immediately following that Cody and the guys left for John's bachelor party- they went down to the River Walk as well. Then it was Friday, with the typical rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. Some of the guys stayed at our apartment that night and us girls stayed at a hotel. It was hard to even remember it was also New Year's Eve in the midst of all the wedding stuff!

Kari and John at their Out-of-Town Guest Dinner

Then it was finally Kari and John's wedding day and everything was gorgeous! Kari was a beautiful glowing bride and I think it turned out to be the dream wedding day she had wanted. They are currently out on their honeymoon cruise! Cody keeps saying he's jealous... wishing we could go on a vacation again just the two of us. (We haven't done a trip just us since our honeymoon --although we did go to a hotel for a night on our anniversary last year.) Anyways! Congrats to John and Kari! -The new Mr. and Mrs. Adams!