We are ENGAGED!!!

Finally.
Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and as most of you know Nick asked me to marry him early Christmas morning. We started a tradition our first Christmas together (3 years ago) where we will write each other a letter and put it into each others stocking. It basically talks about the year that we had together and why we love each other so much. Well...Nicks letter this year was the most amazing thing I have ever read. At the end of the letter he wrote "I asked your Dad and he thinks this is a good idea so put this letter down and look at me." So of course I knew right away what he was doing and I started crying the second he got down on one knee to propose. The "hysterical" tears came soon after that when he presented me with not one ring but TWO, and explained to me that the single diamond ring was the ring my grandmother wore and it is the ring that my dad gave to my mom. The 3 diamond ring was his grandma Nobles and its beautiful. We plan to combine the two rings into one. We are so so happy and love calling each other "fiance" as dumb as that is. We have NO plans yet as far as when and where the wedding will be but we will keep you all posted when we figure it all out! Love you all!

From CA to CO

Nick and I packed up our snowboards last week and headed to back to CO for the first time in 9 months! The trip was planned so that we could suprise our best friend Chad at his engagment party, meet his soon to be wife, and get a little snowboarding in as well. It was so great to see our families, say goodbye to Duke, and meet the newest addition to the family, Josie. We spent one day up at Breckenridge in 3 degree weather but it was totally worth it (especially when I beat both boys down the mountain first run...I still got it!) Being in Colorado made us a little home sick for sure and we were sad to leave after only a few days. Christmas is going to be very strange without snow and all of you. Thank you all so much for everything and we plan on coming back soon....as soon as we save up enough money.


Our first snow sighting!


With mom at Breck


Joes Crab shack


Chad and his amazing Fiance


At momma Beths house



Nick and Mom


Me, Nick, Chad and the newest addition to our fam Brielle!

Rest in Peace Duke

We are thinking of Duke today and know that he is in a better place and is no longer in pain. We feel very lucky to have had him in our lives and feel so grateful that we got to say goodbye to him last week when we were in Colorado. We know he is somewhere up there in our snowboarding heaven eating as many snow cones as he wants. We love you Duke and will always be thinking of you.

They said I do!

Its official! My best friend Jessie is the first (of many) of my good friends to get married. The wedding took place in Old Town San Diego and it was beautiful. The night was perfect... up until someone spilled red wine all over the brides dress (that she has to wear again next week for her second wedding in South Africa). Congrats to the newlyweds, we were so happy to be a part of it all!

Hip replacements and recliner chairs...

Hey everyone I am writting you from the lovely state of CT where the weather is currently 55 degrees and there is not a sun in the ski. I headed back home to CT on Monday to help my dad out during his hip replacement surgery this week. The new parts were put in on Tuesday and although he is in alot of pain he managed to get out of the bed today and sit in a chair....which is something he hasn't comfortably been able to do in a very long time. The doctors told me going in that the the surgery would take about an hour....well three hours later I was a little nervous and needed to know where my daddy-o was...turns out he had grown so many extra bones in there that they needed to get rid of so that is what took so long. We have been hanging out in the hospital for what seems like forever but he finally gets to leave on Thursday and start his recovery process. We are both so happy that he finally had this all taken care of and I am pretty excited to maybe be able to get him back on the mountain to ski someday....ok maybe not, but I will settle for walking without a limp or any pain. There are pictures from the hospital but they don't need to be posted, just took them so I could remember this time because when all is said and done this is one of the most important things he has ever done for himself and I am happy to be here to see what he will do next. Gotta get back to the hospital now, the nurses have been great and rigged up a recliner chair for me in the room and let me stay through the night even though visiting hours end at 8. I think they feel bad that I had to leave sunny San Diego to come to CT, but its all worth it!

Nov 6th 2009...a day in history

Today ladies and gentlemen marks the end of an era...my "little" brother Jamie has turned 21 and can no longer be called my "little" brother. It seems like just yesterday I was chasing him around the house with the intent of beating the crap out of him JUST because he was my little brother. I can remember him always wearing brightly colored muscle pants and being a odd smelling kid in general. I will be the first to admit that when he was little he bugged the hell out of me and stole all of the attention that I naturally deserved (haha) But today he has grown up to be one of the most geniue and unique people I know. He has taught me alot about not caring what other people think and about just being the person that you are meant to be. I am proud of him everyday for the things he has accomplished, the man that he has grown up to be, and whatever it is he will do next. I am lucky to have him as my brother, my friend, and my gentle giant...and I am not just saying all of this because he could easily beat me up now. Love you little Broski!

And now for the photo montage:

A new Wheeler in town...

We are SOOOO happy to hear that Andrew and Allison Wheeler (Nicks brother and sister in law) welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world yesterday! We have been over here in Cali waiting patiently to hear the news and finally got the call yesterday to let us know that she had arrived....and we were sent this text message picture of her shortly after! We love the Wheeler clan and the newest addition Josie Sue Wheeler!!!

Wild West Halloween party 2009

We did it! We won best costume at this years halloween party. And all it took was some cutting of cardboard and a couple of markers! This past weekend we headed over to my aunt Lynn]s for her annual halloween party and this years theme was the Wild West. When Nick and I walked in we were given the title of best costume on the spot... unfortunately there is no consolation prize just a few high fives...but we were totally happy with that. We also found out a while back that my cousin Katy is going to have a baby...we were all a little shocked but are now totally excited. I recently just hosted the Grand Opening at my studio and I will post pictures to that soon. We ended up having around 200 people show up and there was amazing food, music, speeches, etc. Hope you are all doing well and we can't WAIT for Andrew and Allison to welcome baby number 4 any day now! xoxoxo

The Front of my aunt Loopys house...Wild West style

The winners of the best costumes! 

Nicky the kid

Lady Lulu

We recently found out that my cousin Katy is pregnant...a little bit of a shock but we are excited!

Me with my aunt Loopy...my moms twin sister

Lady lulu with some guns

Pool and gun fights went on all night

Look at the wild west mustache!

Chad is ENGAGED!

Nick and I are sooo excited to hear that our best friend Chad is ENGAGED! He proposed to his girlfriend yesterday morning and called Nick right away to ask him to be his best man! You have to be a brave girl to agree to marry a guy as crazy but awesome as Chad so in honor of the engagement here is a Chad photo montage....there would be photos of his bride to be in here too but we haven't even met her yet! Looks like we have another reason to come back to CO and visit!

Happy Birthday Woof!!!!

Nick, Pibbs, and I wanna wish Becca aka "woof" a very happy birthday!!! We love her tons and wish that we could be with her on he 22nd B-day but this photo montage will have to do!...Olive Juice!