Christmas Time's A-Comin'!

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving, thanks to our awesome family here in OK and our "family" of friends too :D We had 2 dinners (I know, lucky us!) one at Mike & Laura's (My BIL and SIL) with the whole family and one with our ward friends @ Meg & Brent's house. Isaac and I have enjoyed all the leftovers :D

But now it is the CHRISTMAS season! yay! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this time of year. It's my birthday soon and I love Christmas, with all the singing, lights and presents and being around family and good friends We are going home to Kentucky for a few weeks but until then, we had to decorate our house and have our own tree! So on Friday we went and picked one out @ Home Depot and got a great looking tree! It's a frasier fir and our house smells great now. It's so important to me to have a real tree, it just makes Christmas, Christmas!





So just a few more weeks of school and finals week to go this semester! I can't wait to have our MONTH LONG break and relax @ home next to the fire :) It's been a realllly busy semester but I've enjoyed school so much. Isaac will enjoy next semester a lot more since he will have taken boards by then. He has been studying so hard and I know he'll do great, the smarty pants that he is. He takes them Dec. 19th ... so pray hard for him! Other than school, not much has been going on. My parents & cousin Clinton came out for a weekend to visit us which was AWESOME! We loved having them, especially to watch football with on Saturday.

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

garth brooks.

vegas, HERE WE COME! our favorite singer of all time is coming out of retirement. YAYAYAYAYAYYY!!!

home sweet kentucky

holy cow i have been SO busy these past 2 months! school is in full swing and the little spare time i have is being taken up by isaac and sleeping. but i do love being in a classroom and actually learning instead of sitting at home having my brain rot by watching oprah and dr. oz (so says isaac). life is very busy for us both but we're doing great and are very happy!

this past weekend we got to go to KENTUCKY!!! you know how i feel about going home :D it was our fall break and our neice (little ruthie, noah and mel's daughter) was getting blessed AND it was big blue madness for the best basketball team of all time. yes, i'm extremely biased. so we headed out on thurs night and came back sunday night and had a GREAT time! here are some pictures to prove it!!

yay sebourns!

cutie ruth!

SO excited for madness!

yes. we have thousands of cat fans that camp out for DAYS to get a free ticket to practice. and yes, i know of someone who sold their tickets for $500 a PIECE. we are the big blue nation and we love our cats.

and yes. we pack rupp arena year in and year out for a practice. 24,000 strong of the big blue nation!

coach cal. the man that has brought us back on top even before the season has started!

needless to say, this was a great trip! i love coming home and it's great that we have more family than just the thomas side there now! we love being able to see noah, mel, eden and ruth when we come! can't wait for christmas break!!

p90x

oh yeah, we're doing it! it's been a sucessful 2 weeks so far and i love it! we're both a little out of shape since being out of highs chool sports. i am so sore but it feels awesome! we should have taken before & after pictures but we probably would not have put them up here haha. anyway, i recommend it!

kentucky trip

oh my what a great summer it's been! our vacation to utah, hanging out in oklahoma and then spending 3 wonderful weeks in KENTUCKY!! 2 of my best friends, angela & sara, had their weddings and my dad turned 50 so we had a party for him!

angela and grant's wedding was amazing. i'm so glad i got to be in it! i've known her since 1st grade at our spanish school and we were in school together all the way through high school and we have LOTS of great memories! she will always be an adopted thomas girl and is always welcome on any SEC tournament trips :D

the bridesmaids

then the next week was sara and gabe's wedding! i've know gabe since we were in primary and he and his family have been great friends of mine and my family. i don't remember when i exactly met sara, probably when i was 11 or 12 (she was in a different ward than i was) and the first thing we had in commen was our crush on mr. billy hymas haha. but that phase passed quickly and we were onto the next guy and became best friends! we went to high school together and really became great friends in choir and our many earrrrly mornings in seminary :) i love her to death and i'm so happy that she and gabe are MARRIED!

the happy couple!

my awesome family!

finally onto my dad's birthday. what an old man! actually i don't think he's old at all. im sure he'd all want everyone to know how chisled his abs are (because he's always going around saying "now isn't this impressive for a man so old?!") and how "with it" he is. he is the best dad ever and i'm so blessed to have had that wonderful man raise me and be so involved with my life. happy birthday, dad! i love you!!


so here i am sitting at home while isaac is out playing in california with his brother and eric (my sister-in-law's brother) at blizzcon. i'm happy for him :) he is finally getting a chance to travel and have lots of fun! i can't wait for him to get back on sunday and tell me alll about the "sweet" and "awesome" tournaments he gets to watch his starcraft hero's play in... :) that's all for now. we both start up school again on the 24th and that's the last time i'll see my husband til christmas.. it's the semester to take part 1 of boards! ah! actually, isaac is awesome about staying home to study and he doesn't really need to study too much so i'm greatful for that. hopefully our kids get some of those smart genes!

hope everyone has had a great summer! Good luck to those who are starting up school!

our casa!

we finally finished painting our house! we only did the living room and kitchen/dining room and that's probably all we'll do. i say that though bc i'm tired of painting haha. we did the living room a pretty blue color and the kitchen/dining room is a light yellow (it's kinda hard to tell from the pictures). we love it here and love having more space!

alex.

my sister finally came out here to visit us! we had an awesome time. some shopping, lots of painting, fireworks and good eating!





of course we had to take her to pops and she loved it! thanks alex for coming out! we had a blast with you and we love you!! :D