Thanks Nate + Nikki + Coop for a fun time in SRQ!

Dinner + Wii with Dallas, Kirsten and the kids

Busted! Manis with Willies + Momies

OUI! A Christmas Wii!

Christmas Morning in Tally

Christmas Eve Caroling at Granna's

Lunch + LeMoyne with the Kennett Gals

Christmas Haircut with Kim!

FIRE!

Not too sure what happened next door, but when three fire trucks came blaring down the block and raised this ladder to the windows next to us... I was a wee bit concerned.

I cracked our door - no smoke - no heat - no need to stop, drop, roll... and heard a fireman in the building say "All clear here!" (with a hard Brooklyn accent)... so I figured - go back to bed.

Big snowfall before heading home for the holidays...

Nathan and Nikki are hitched!!!

Love is in the air! What a wonderful weekend with family and friends celebrating the marriage of my baby bro and his lovely wife, Nathan and Nikki. I am so thankful for my new sister! Love you Nikki... welcome to the family!

Marriage IS...

1. Focus on the good in one another.

2. Cherish small moments.

3. Be vulnerable.

4. Repair and laugh.

Trust. Feel like you can fall backwards and have loving, nonjudgmental arms to catch you. Be dependable, responsible and accountable to each other.

"Let's find a moment, daily, to surprise each other with a kiss, a DEEP one."

"This is, after all, where it ALL began, the desire, then the yearning, then the waiting...."

"And let us each unexpectedly – you or me – plant (definition: set in the ground for growth) a deep kiss. Let’s remember how it began."

"It is as simple as that and it IS as powerful as that, and as simple. Now, each day we seek and plan, (and sometimes miss – ahhh, LIFE!) to find the surprise, to seek the unexpected, to linger in the remembered in a kiss “a thousand kisses deep”."

"That first kiss can be animated daily. And it does, indeed, still set off the delicious, exquisite realm of possibilities."

marriage IS: the good, the bad, the highlights and low points, the unexpected. And the most important thing to surviving and sustaining the journey is to embrace it all. This is the trip you agreed to take, wanted to take, chose to take. And if you let it, this is the trip that will offer you the greatest fulfillment. As long as you sit back, stay on the road, and stay open to the possibilities.

Brunch & Tubing with the Newly Weds!!!

Sunday morning the Kennetts, Dee Lea and Mom and Dad hosted a Breakfast with the Newly Weds. Will and I showed up a little more than fashionably late, but just in time to chow down on some delicious fruit, beach pound cake, breakfast treats, egg casserole, hot brewed coffee and juice.

Greg brought his boat over and William took us one after another until we were all black and blue! Such a fun day!