Christmas Pictures

It came to my attention as I was getting ready to post this blog that I did not take very many Christmas pictures...As I was pondering why, I came upon the following conclusion which I have put into the form of " T'was the Night Before Chrsitmas" and Renamed "Tis the Morning of Christmas"...

Tis the morning of Christmas and from my view on the couch

Things were lookin good, like a bandit I made out.

The presents were sorted by name with much care

and I stacked mine up high, from here to there.

All of us were nestled in our own comfy spot
Drinking mama jan's coffee - not too cold, not too hot.

When the question was posed "well, who should start?"

I jumped at the chance - So the gift opening did start.

Throught the paper and ribbon I flew mighty fast

Tore open the box and exclaimed with a gasp...

I love it! I love it! Thank You a lot

And examined my gift with happy happy thought

I was having a great time and enjoying my own delight,

And then I saddened a bit when the opening of gifts moved on to my right.

But that was ok, I so quickly saw

As I watched the others open, with shock and with awe.

The cards were all perfect, and so were the things,

All new, birght and shiny, some even had wings.

We finished the giving, the opening and shouts of joy,

and watched as the puppy played with her new toy.

We ate cookies and watched movies and talked about our stuff

We took naps and drank coffee and played games till we had enough.

We had delicious dinner, prepared by mama jan,

The table was a smorgesbored, nothing you could get from a can.

We did some more playing, we all hung out together,

We watched another movie and talked about the snowy weather.

And in the midst of this fun, I got to thinking in my head,

Who was taking the pictures while I was playing instead.

So I grabbed up my camera and to my surprise,

Only 4 pictures were there to meet my eyes...

Not too bad, I thought for a minute

Until i realized that was all that was in it!

And so you see becuase of such a wonderful days flight

Christmas morning is pictured and re-told is Christmas Night.

Christmas Thanks

We realized we left some people out...So our complete list of thank yous follows:
Thank You Dad and Kathy and Chris Car and Anna for the generous gift cards - we will probably be at the movies redeming them and at Target spoiling ourselves and Charlie!
Allie, thanks for the super cute scarf - I don't even have one this year and it has been freezing!
Dad and Carla - Thanks for a special Christmas Eve and for all the goodies!
Nani and Papa, we are obviously super excited about the mini recorder. It will be used frequently before and after the baby!
Mom and Randy, Whit and Phil, thanks for a very special Christms and Phils-Navidad!

To everyone we are not with today, we love you all and wish you a very merry Christmas and a fantastic new year.
Our cards were rushed to us via Fed Ex and still didn't make it to our house before the storm. Hopefully we will get them tomorrow or the next day.
Anyways, here is our "live" thanks from in front of the tree with Charlie!

New!!! The Baby Blog...

So, It has come to our attention that we do not have enough info on the newest-yet-to-be-added addition to our family (a.k.a the baby). This is the link to our baby site, go there to read up on our baby, our doctor, Courtney's weird tendincies, where we are registered, and all sorts of other baby related things!

http://NathanandCourtneysbabygirl.blogspot.com
Have fun!
Love,
Courtney Nathan and Sev

Blizzard 2008

Chuck, explorer of lost potty spots...

She was up to her little belly in snow!

She would dive in with her whole face to sniff around!

A great blink shot of my hubby -

we had only been walking for 5 minutes

and we were covered!!!

Nathan's Power Slide into our parking spot at Wal Mart...

Don't we sound like classy folk.

Emergency provisions

**A.K.A. a good excuse to get whatever we wanted -

including Dark Night, A new DS game (love it, thank you baby)

Dinty Moore stew (Nathans choice, suprisingly healither than one might think)

Mac and Cheese, cookies, OJ....the list goes on but I think you get the point.

We r little snow bunnies!

I think this packet of Swiss Miss perfectly sums up our relationship...

Babe, you are the thousands of tiny marshmellows to my hot cocoa...

The 1st Baby Shower

I had my very first baby shower this past Sunday at the adorable house of my dear friend Cim (pronounced Kim just in case you were wondering). It was so much fun - The gifts were so so thoughtful and the company even more so. These girls have meant so much to me over the past (almost) year...Thanks again ladies for the food (so so good!) and the sweet presents. Julianna, I wore my scotty dog PJ's last night! Jessica, I already opened the 1st aid kit!!! Suzie and Traci, you were too too thoughtful. and everyone else, it's not that I can't remember what you got me it's that I'm tired and maybe a little lazy! xox to you all! (For those of you wondering, this picture is of my friend Julianna empathizing with my "condition"...She cracks me up).

**Jessica, Living up to the phonetic pronunciation of her last name

**The Hostess, Cim, and I...Cimmy, you are my dearest friend - Thank You so so much

**I couldn't have asked for a more perfect day! Snow, Friends, Food and Fun!

**Becca got my measurement right on...She's a mom.

**I remember telling Jules I envied her party trick

**Julianna working her magic (I am 11 TP squares by the way)

**Cim, Suzie, Traci, Becca

**My friend (and former employee) Katie

Family Christmas Photo Shoot

We Had our family Chrsitmas photo shoot the other weekend at Bridgeport Village...It was alot of fun - as you can see our guys are not only good looking but total hams for the camera! Thanks so much to Bryan Rupp and his wife for the excellent photos and to Mom and Randy for the yummy C.P.K !

Just the three of us....

These are our first family pictures...

You and Me and baby makes 3!

Meet Charlie

This is our pup Charlie...We call her Chuck. She is a 1 yr old scottie dog and a little on the small side. She is hilarious! She loves to hide her toys (we are still looking for 1 very large raw hide bone and probably 10 toys), run up and down the stairs, chase cats, pretend to be a big dog, chew dads slippered feet, and fall asleep in the crook of mom's leg.

For your information

The picture on the front page of our blog was taken only hours after we eloped on June 4th, 2008. We were married at the marion county court house in the afternoon and spent the rest of our day doing things we love to do (walk around downtown, go to one of our favorite restaurants, be together, ya know - great things like that. It was a great day. We didn't spread the word right away - we enjoyed keeping it private and have gained a great appreciation for not blasting everything about our lives to the world. Privacy is sort of a lost art so to speak - even this blog is sort of weird for us - and both of us enjoy and prefer a more private life than you may previously recall. Anyways - enough of the psycho babble - back to us! About 2 months after we got married we saw double one night (stripes on a pregnancy test that is)! After a couple of doctors visits, we decided we should probably start leaking our love story...And here we are! So, welcome to a side of us a little less private and a lot awesome (in our own words).

Well...

We made a blog! Really for obvious reasons - If you have tried to contact us at all lately (or ever really) you know that we are often un-contactable. The answer to your question is YES, we sort of do it on purpose. We work a lot (which is fine) and we work very hard and when we are done working we really like to be together!!!!!! So in the interest of showing our friends and family that we do indeed care, we made you a blog! We hope you enjoy our pictures and our stories - we sure do!