Brett and Shannon: Life, As We Know It

A Night Out

Shannon and I went out to P.F. Changs with our friends last week. We were celebrating Mark's birthday....he just turned 27. Happy Birthday Gouldicous.....you slap!!

3 Years Baby!!

In the lobby at Hotel 43 with my Suga

All bundled up

So happy to be at the Winter Garden Aglow

Dining at Chandlers..mmm

Our cozy lil room

View from our hotel

Thanks Mom!

My mom gave me the stars hanging over the fireplace. I wanted to show her what they looked like on the wall.....and here they are.

Colorado Christmas!!

I just got back from a very short, but much needed trip to Colorado. What a refreshing time it was...hanging out with the family, eating, and celebrating the wonderful birth of our Lord and Savoir! I know I know.. it's only the 18th of December...but with work things don't always go as you would like...so this year we celebrated early and it was GREAT! I miss you guys!!

Me and my two older sisters, Stacy and Stephanie.

Too cute for his own good.

The three nephews.

My mom and my sister.

Table setting for Christmas.....so pretty.

A cute picture of Kal and Stephy.

Ruuuude.....

Brett had these delivered to me after I'd had a rough day. I had (and still have) a nasty cold, a sore back, and a lost suitcase (thanks to the airline). The flowers were the perfect little pick me up. I love you sweetie.

Maggie's Pool

This video is hilarious. Maggie constantly cracks us up. We took this video in the summer, but I just came across it today and thought I'd post it.

Nice Sweater!

Shannon and I went to a Christmas party last weekend that required us to wear the ugliest Christmas sweaters we could find. I set a budget of $5 total for the sweaters, went to Savers, and picked up these bad boys. Unfortunately, the Christmas sweater selection was not good, so we settled for just plain ugly sweaters. Kevin and Morgan (pictured) also managed to find some sick looking sweaters. Kevin's was at least 3 sizes too small, so he looked like Baby Huey.

Waste Not

What do you do when it is the last Saturday of college football and you have two plasma TVs in your house? I think the only logical thing to do is move the TVs together to combine for 92 inches of HD goodness. There was no way I'd let a perfectly good plasma TV sit in the other room while we had two great college football games going at the same time. Also, we needed to have a second TV available to play Guitar Hero III. I will miss those lazy Saturdays. Mark, Josh, Kevin.....we still have NCAA basketball to look forward to......Josh, I know you and your 8 foot HD theater screen are ready for it.

Christmas Time!

Shannon has been hard at work putting up our Christmas decorations around the house. Here are some pictures we took around the house. Great job sweetie!

Maggie is still our only child. We like to spoil her!

Shannon thought it would be fun to put her scarf around Maggie. It took about 20 tries to get this shot.

This is our tree skirt. Hildreth, this picture is for you.

Decorations.

Our tree.

Our family room.

Thanksgiving

Brett and I took a very short trip down to Ogden to spend Thanksgiving with family. We have a lot to be thankful for this year, including our new nephew, Caleb!

This is a picture I took of the sunset at Brett's sister's house.

This is Tim, after his very first haircut.

This is what his hair looked like before I cut it. He definitely had some shag going on in the back.

Eileen prepared a delicious meal for us, complete with all the fixins.

Sam and Brett got in a little Scrabble

This is Caleb, the newest member of our family.

He is so cute!!

Florida

Shannon and I took a vacation to Florida last week. It was our first real vacation by ourselves since our honeymoon. We stayed in Orlando for a few nights and Melbourne for a few nights. It was a BLAST! Here are some of the pics from our trip.

We found a Dunkin Donuts and stopped off for some coffee and pink sprinkled doughnuts. Mmmmm.