A Blacksburg Wedding

So Matt was in our groomsman Chad's wedding on 1-9-09 in Blacksburg VA. We love Chad and Lindsay so much and it was a blessing to get to take part in this wedding! We stayed with Grant and Jen, he was the best man, she was like me, a lonely and dejected wife. Just kidding! We did get to hang out a lot though, which was really fun! I feel much closer to her now! So here are the few pics we got; we mostly have video since that is what Matt likes to do for weddings!

The bride to be and me-L squared...actually, Lynsey (Lindsay) squared!

We stayed with them!

During the wedding

Don't they look great! Matt...stop talking!

Toast time!

We're going to go on a vacation with them!! YAY!!

Admit it...we're fun!

This was the only G rated part of the "get away" car! No seriously, all other photos are XXX

We hung out, it was great!

Of course I was wild on the dance floor! Linds had some FUN friends!

Oh the places we go....

While on our world...ok maybe not WORLD...but USA wide travels, we got to go to DC while visiting Matt's fam in SOMD....that's southern Maryland in case you aren't in the "know". Although I am a anti-city person, I do enjoy a good trip to DC every now and then...last time I was there it was 2 years ago. On this trips agenda we went to the art museum, of course, the natural history museum, which just spent 84 million dollars on a new underwater life exhibit, and the WWII monument, Matt hadn't been yet. To get to the WWII monument, you must pass the Washington monument and it's on the way to the reflecting pool and Lincons monument. So, you get to see a lot in no time, yay for DC! Well really, yay to any big city. So here are pretty much the only pictures we got while we were there. We also met up with our bestman and his wife for dinner.

Yup, thats us...right at sunset


WWII monument and the Washington in back

Mounted policeman meet park ranger...oh yes it's true, "the mall" is a national park who needs park rangers...

Twins? yes, yes they are!

There's something growing out of our heads!

Oh good, it's just the Washington Monument!

There is NO resemblance at all!!

He was hard to catch but we finally did!

Steve, Sarah, and Matt, by an elephant

Jacki's Wedding....a New Year's Event!

All I can say is that Jacki's wedding was super fun and amazing!! I feel so honored that she had me as the maid (I know...matron, it just makes me sound SO OLD!) of honor! They are truly a great couple and she is my best friend ever! They both looked amazing (as you will see!)...seriously, super model material here folks! Enjoy the "behind the scenes" pics that only yours truly got to take!

Seriously...SUPER MODELS!!!

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas! Well, kinda!

Well, it's that time of year! Snow falling, sledding, making snowmen...BUT, not here! I guess we could make sandmen but they wouldn't work well huh? As we got our Christmas tree it was odd because it still doesn't feel like Christmas to us! Yes, the calender says December 12, 2008. But the weather says September 3! It's weird to be singing "Baby it's cold outside" and "Let It Snow" while cruising along the street with the sunroof and all the windows open; definitely a first for me, and sadly the second year for Matt. It has been fun though; I'm actually liking the fact that I can wear just jeans and a long sleeved shirt and flip flops to go shop for presents, instead of having to layer up, get the poofy jacket on, and trudge through the snow at all times to get from point a to point be. However, we do miss the snow, the cold (or chilliness) that comes with it, having to snuggle up under a blanket with cocoa to watch a movie. SO, if you are cold, count yourself lucky! There are those of us who aren't and kind of want to be at times!
Another first for us is spending the entire holiday season with out our families. Last year we had Thanksgiving with my parents, then Christmas totally alone, just the 2 of us, which was definitely a first! This year, the whole sha-bang is all alone; Thanksgiving was spent with some families from our church, which was such a blessing, we were truly thankful for! Christmas will be the same, we'll open presents the 2 of us and then dinner with the families, which we are so excited for! It'll be soo wonderful to spend the birth of our Savior with such wonderful and loving families!
So these are the pics of us with Joey and our tree and the final product of our decorated tree at home!

Out in the desert with the cacti and our tree and us!



Again, out in the desert! Look at our funny sweaters! Joey too!

Matt decorating our tree, so pretty!

Our "First Christmas" ornament-adorable!

The finished product!

TOOOOOMBSTOOOONE!!!

Matt's parents are visiting us for a few days and during the weekend we went to TOMBSTONE! Wow, that place is such a tourist trap! But we did have fun! We saw some gun fights, ate some ok food, and walked around the historic city. We also took a trolley tour that was narrated so we could learn about the different sites around town. It wasn't the wild west adventure one would hope for, but it worked for us yankees (you know, east coasters!).

I met a handsom man while we were there!

Matt got mad about that and beat him up and this is where he ended up!

Don't they look good?

Us, not so much!

The OK Corral shoot out site! With actual size mannequins!

The newly errected Wyatt Erp statue, dedicated the day before we got there



Boothill Graveyard...where the toughest are burried!



Also, where the wrongly hung are burried!

Carving the pumpkins

So we carved the pumpkins we picked out at the patch last night. I (Lyns) carved Joey's and my own while Matt just did his! Joey's was the traditional scary pumpkin, while Matt's was a slightly varied scary pumpkin, and as always, mine was silly! And, of course, we had to pay tribute to our beloved schools! CSU and VT! whoo hoo!

Starting off with the tops!

Big smiles for big pumpkins!



Joey's little pumpkin all done...so scary!



Yep....school pride!

Such beautiful and scary faces!

Don't we all look great!

Of course Joey had to be included too!

Pumpkin Patches!

This weekend we decided to start celebrating the coming holidays by going to a pumpkin patch! We went and picked out our pumpkins for carving, we also went in a corn maze and on a hayride to the "far away" patch....which was about 200 yards from the parking lot! We had a lot of fun though! There were lots of families there and we talked about how fun it'll be to take our kids to those kinds of things one day (in the distant future!) We're just enjoying being married and still being kids ourselves really. We had a fun drive to the patch (about an hour and a half away from Tucson) and the same back; just talking and goofing off and singing along to music...it's what we do best!

We're on the hay ride to the patch!



Lynsey: "Do we really have to take another picture, the first one was fine!"

Our pumpkins! With the loppers...the baby one is for Joey!

A view of our pumpkins and those around them!

"I Can Do IT!"

"I'm king of the pumpkins!"