Merry Christmas

Me and Dan at Mom and Dad's

Yeah we didn't realize what we looked like til we took it!

Trishy and Brian.....so cute...matching pj's

Smoochie smoochies!!

Kylie and Jessica

Dad and his new shirt!

Us girls

Merry Christmas everyone!! We did Christmas with my family on the 24th cuz Dan and my Dad had to work today....:( We had lots of fun and took lots of pics! My dad got us all the scarf/hoodie thingy ma bopers....we didn't realize that we looked straight out of Iraq til after the pic! :) The crowns worn by Jess and Kylie are a tradition in our household....they are out of crackers from england (no not the kind you eat) that have a joke, crown and toy inside, very fun!

Dad is holding up a new shirt, what you can't see is his elves gone wild shirt underneath....so silly! This morning I am spending christmas with the Woods...thanks so much! I didn't want to be alone on christmas morning with Dan being gone and all, thanks for the invite!

Saturday is Christmas with Dan's family, can't wait for you guys to get here and see you! Hope everyone had a great holiday.......Ho Ho Ho MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Just a few cool photos....

Being goofy in the leaves.
Picture made courtesy of Momma Jackson.
Just a few cool shots! Momma Jackson took the leaf pic of me and Dan while we were in St. Louis for Thanksgiving. I have seen tons of pics of couples taken in the leaves and I loved them so I wanted to give it a try and it turned out really good! To make it look even better Momma Jackson and I (really just mom) made the cool page of it for us and framed it! We love it Momma Jackson, thanks so much! The last pic is of a tree outside of Dan's apartment after the big ice storm. It was very slippery but oh so pretty!

Pictures with Santa....

Here is our picture with Santa!! Kylie was scarred to death of Santa and would not sit on his lap or go near him without my mom holding her...it was hilarious! However she kept screaming Hi Santa and waving, then after this pic she said Thank you Santa and Merry Christmas! What a nerd. Maybe next year she will sit on his lap!!

MU vs KU 11.24.07

Fun times watchin KU get STOMPED!!!

Yeah we painted it up for the game.....GO MIZZOU!!

Sad Mel and Stevie-poo!

We watched the MU vs KU game with Mel and Steve and had waaaaaaay too much fun and food! We ate us some hooters wings (YUMMY) papa murphy's, cheese dip, little smokies, and of course some beer and vanilla vodka diet cokes!!

The next weekend that Mizzou played they didn't do so well, and I have pics from that too, I will post them soon. Tah Tah for now....

Christmas tree huntin we go.....

What fun we had....no Mel does not have to pee...just looks like it!

Being silly and playing in the trees.

They looooooooved them some hot chocolate!

Me, Kylie and my mum....I just love her!

Peek a booo we seeeeee you!

Me and Kylie and the pretty horses.

Today we went a christmas tree huntin' and had a blast! I introduced everyone to this GREAT christmas tree place called Reindeer lane, we had hot chocolate,a carridge ride, popcorn, candy canes, pictures with santa and of course a grand time finding all of our "perfect" trees for the holiday!!

The weather was cold like it is suppossed to be (unlike the pumpkin pickin' heat wave we had) and we all found our trees. We will have to post pics of our decorated trees soon, I want to see your Christmas tress too ladies, so get to decorating and taking pics!!

Thanks Momma Maynard, Kylie, Momma and Pappa Holt, and of course Mel, Steve, and Liam for such a great time, I think this needs to be another yearly tradition for us all!! (mom and dad jackson, you neeeeeeeeeeeed to be closer!! :) )

I am still here.....

I am still here!! I have been super busy with school and moving into a new apartment, I was having WAAAAY too many water problems, as in my bedroom flooded EVERYTIME it rained!! So I am moving, it's a great apartment complex but the friggin air conditioner concrete pad (right outside my bedroom window) is sloped TOWARDS the complex, hello, where else does the water have to go but IN?
I have such cute fall pics to post, more from trip to mom and dad jackson's, MU game pics (whoo hooo they kicked the chicken hawks booties!!) and even pics of kylie in her stinkin t-rex costume!! So, I am sitting in class right now and can't add those at the moment but hopefully I get to this week. This weekend we are going a christmas tree huntin with Mel, Steve, Liam and momma, papa holt, momma maynard, Jess and Kylie and I can't wait!! Wish you could go with us Mom and Dad Jackson!!! Pictures with Santa, good fun times!!

A day in St. Louis with Mom and Dad.....

Me and my bubs

All prettied up for the wedding.

Dan and his older brother Tim.

Uhhh I might have made a trip or two to the chocolate fountain!!

Saturday me, Dan, mom, dad and Tim(Dan's older brother) went to an old family friends wedding. We had a blast. They had a chocolate fountain and of course it was woooooooonderful. Have you all had the pleasurable experience of one of those, wow.....someone usually has to pull me off! After the wedding we had pizza and wine at mom and dad's and watched football, it was a great night. We wish we could do this at least once a week 4 hours is soooo far away, we wish we were closer. Sunday was our Thaksgiving since we won't see them on the correct turkey day, those pics to follow soon. Tah tah for now....

A lil' bit of tea and crumpets.....

I think it is impossible for us to take normal pics!

Trishy and Brian, so cute!!

Me and my sissy, I loved her hair cut so much I copied it!!

Us girls and Dad..I don't think we have ever laughed so much, we were cracking each other up all day!

My parents have been doing the british fair every year at the Lenexa community center for the last three years and this was my first experience!! I not only attended it, I worked it! Me, my dad, trish and Nan were the lucky workers this year! Last friday we loaded up the u-haul and drove down there, unloaded it and set up. Saturday morning at 0730 the madness began!! There were SOOOO many people it was crazy! My parents have the biggest booth there and they sold over half the stuff by the end of the day at 5:00, craziness I tell ya. Well Trish and I took a much needed brake with Dan and Brian that night at our favorite place, TGI Fridays!! We all ordered a different appetizer and split them, let me tell you we ate it all up with such a quickness one might have thought this was our first time eating since being on survivor, it was ridiculous! We had lots of fun. This weekend we are with Mom and Dad Jackson, we went to a wedding today which I have pics of and will post soon, tomorrow is the feast, those will be on here too! Tah tah for now....

Story Time....

This pic is from forever ago but it's soooo cute! I got Liam a dinosaur book and a matching stuffed dino (see to the right of my leg) which he loved! I think he loved the dino book so much cuz it was about dino's and their manners at the table with FOOD!! :)

Same old stuff, work, school and clinicals!! Clinicals are lots of fun, I get to see lots of different things to x-ray, the lady with the rotted off toe was not so cute but it is FUN!! It's great to be taking x-rays of people that actually need them instead of "faking" x-rays with my partner!!

Dan and I celebrated our six months on the 5th and I got beauuuuutiful flowers and the cutest card that said Happy me and you day! Thanks bubs I love you so much! We are going to see Momma and Dad Jackson this weekend, I can't wait! We miss you guys soooo much and can't wait til next friday, wish we could stay longer than 3 days but we will take what we can get! Looking forward to our mini-thanksgiving feast too( I won't be eating mini sized portions though...hee hee)!! Tah Tah for now....

Happy Halloween!!!

Dan, uhh I mean Michael Myers paid us a surprise visit right after we finished the first Halloween at Slasher Movie Fest '07!!
Our pumpkins we carved! Mine is the bat and Dan's is the spooky face!!
Me and my little sweetie!!

No I didn't get my days mixed up, tomorrow I have school alllll morning and then I work allll night so I will not have time to post and I HAD to have a halloween post! We had a great weekend with the Woods at Slasher Movie Fest '07 (see mel's blog) and while Dan did fall asleep very early (he works days and had been up since 0400!!) he or rather Michael Myers made an appearance!! For all of you who have seen the first Halloween, you should remember this scene. :) Dan left to go get some more drinks with Steve and they didn't come back, only Michael!!

We carved our pumpkins Friday night, it was soo much fun. Dan hasn't carved one since he was like 8, it was hilarious! Last night we got to see Kylie, I know that isn't halloween related but we never get to see her, it always seems like she is at her dad's the weekend we come home, rats! So it was a real treat to see her last night. She loooooves Dan and loves saying his name, we must have heard it a bazillion times! Hey Dan, Whatcha doing Dan? I wish she was as close as Liam, we could see her sooo much more. We are going to get them together (kylie and liam) for some halloween pics next week so I will be sure to post them, they will look so cute together!! Oh and Kylie does not have a mullett, her hair is falling out everywhere from her ponytail...hee hee!! I hope everyone has a safe and happy halloween, hopefully the pranksters leave the cemetery alone and not too many pumpkins get squarshed, I will let you know how my shift goes!! Tah tah for now.....

Louie finally lived up to his name...chewybear

So uh yeah Louie has never ever chewed anything, I only came up with that loving nick name cuz it rhymed with Louie. Well, we went to Target tonight and came home to find our precious little chewybear had chewed his pressure wrap half way off and he knew he did a bad thing. He had to have a drain put in his knee due to all the fluid building up complete with a pressure wrap and uhhh I guess Louie didn't think it really needed to stay on til monday. He did leave the drain in, but we shall see for how long. I cut the rest of the wrap off and he seems to be happier so maybe he won't chew out the drain!! What a silly chewybear!

Happy Halloweeeeeen!

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Ummmmm I was soooo not going to post these til Halloween but I couldn't resist. George is our little bumble bee and Louie is our huge sunflower!! It took us forever just to get these shots and they are not perfect, but we love them.

Date Night Date Night! And Megan and Dave are having a boy!!!!

Tonight was date night courtesy of Mel and Steve, thank you guys soooooo much!! We had a great night at Red Lobster and we still have movie tickets to use for helping Mel and Steve with their house. You guys are sooo sweet and totally didn't have to do it, we had so much fun helping you and we love you lots!! But, thank you so much again for our date night one and two!! (we are waiting for Saw 4 to come out to use the movie tickets) Oh and for those of you who are wondering, we did not do the endless shrimp, I got salmon and shrimp and Dan got Steak and shrimp it was GREAT!!

Other exciting news....DAVE AND MEGAN ARE HAVING A BOY!!!! Dave and Megan were on my blog previously, Dave is Dan's bestest friend ever and of course Megan is his wife, they are loved by us very much. Megan is due in May and they just found out they are having a boy, Sean Edward Breiner!! Congrats you two, we can't WAIT to see him (in the little baseball booties...hee hee )!!

My new dooooooooo!!!

I told ya, I hacked it off!!! It's really short in the back as you can see and then gets longer in the front! It's soooo weird washing and drying it, I feel like I don't have any hair! It hasn't been this short in my life! So I am taking a brutal truth poll, which do you like better, long or short? I know I will grow it back out but for a short do and a new change I love it, but I will not keep it forever!!

A few more pics from our trip....

A beautiful sunset one evening while camping.
My only stinkin fish the whoooooole trip!

I tried to load a video from when we went camping and of course it didn't want to work. So no video for video vednesday! These are a few pics from camping, I have soooo many it's crazy!! Check out the length of my hair cuz uhhhhh no more!! I got it all hacked off last night! I wanted a change and had Jess cut it for me, it's just above my shoulders, I will post pics soon of it. We also got to see Kylie last night while getting my hair cut and learned she is going to be T-rex for halloween, it's the cutest costume ever. I LOVED dinos growing up and it's sooo neat to see Kylie loving them too. We did forget the camera so we will be making a trip back and taking some pics, she is too cute in that thing. I will say I do have the cutest T-rex in the world as my wallpaper on my phone. Tah tah for now....

Chewy is home!!

Chewy and his new ligament! :)
A small close up, his incision is hard to see due to they way he is laying on it.
My first day of clinicals and my flowers from my bubs!

Thanks to all of you for your kind thoughts and warm wishes for Louie. We got him home friday and he is doing very well. He isn't using his leg yet but that is to be expected. We had to buy a baby gate to put up to keep Louie in the kitchen/laundry room and keep George out! George is just too silly to be around him now, I can see him jumping on Louie and ripping a staple out! I took a little bit of a close up, I know you are welcome! He has about 20 staples and they will be coming out next week sometime. It's 4-6 weeks of lots of rest and leash walks only for Louie, hopefully he doesn't tear it again in that time. He is pretty lazy to begin with so I think we will be good. I will keep you all updated.

On another good note, I started my clinicals last week and my bubs got me a dozen pink roses on my first day. He knew I was nervous and also very proud of me for getting this far and got me some roses...thanks bubs I love you! My clinicals are going great, I am in a medical plaza so I don't get any trauma what so ever but it is still fun cuz you get something different everyday. I LOVE IT! Hope you all had a good weekend!

Our poor chewy bear.....

Louie tore his cruciate (ligament in his knee) and has to have surgery. I feel so bad for him, he hurt it while we were on vacation(just running around in the yard), I just thought he strained a muscle or something, well it didn't get any better so we took him to the vet and found out the bad news. He has to have surgery otherwise his other knee will more than likely blow out due to his size cuz he will not use his left leg at all. So, he is going to be dropped off tonight, surgery in the morning and I don't even get to get him back til friday cuz it's such a huge surgery, I am very sad and worried. Dr. Chambers is doing the surgery and Louie couldn't be in any better hands but there is always risks when it comes to surgery, so keep your fingers crossed for our chewy bear! I will post pics when we get him home. :(