New addition to the Family

Don't worry, Julia is not pregnant. At least not yet. We are looking to wait a little bit of time and have some time to ourselves before the kids come along. Julia has wanted a lap dog since Dan and Courtney got Miley and Andy and Ashley got Pickles. Well she finally got her little lap dog, but he thinks he is a big dog because he plays with Molly and Liberty as if he were as big as them. Bear is a Chihuahua/Maltese mix and loves his new home. His favorite toy is his older brother Alvin. Yes the cat. He terrorizes the cat and wrestles with him. Very fun to watch. Here are some pics.

Happy New Years 2009

Well we also had a fun New Year. Matt's best friend TJ got married on New Years Eve, so Matt spent all day New Years Eve in Loveland helping him get ready and stay de-stressed. Julia and Matt's parents came up for the wedding and Matt and Julia got a hotel room for the night because Matt was the Best Man and the reception didn't get over until well after midnight. Unfortuntaely we don't have pictures because we forgot our camera. But it was a fun night. and from our family to yours HAPPY NEW YEARS 2009

Christmas 2008

Well again, we had an extremely fun Christmas as is the case every year between our two families. We started with Christmas Eve going to Matt's Aunt and Uncle's house for chili and fellowship with Matt's family. After that we went to Julia's parents and spent George's (Julia's Dad) birthday with him. We went home and slept and started over the next morning. We went to Julia's parents and opened presents, then off to Matt's parents house for Christmas Dinner and Opening presents (Matt got a WII, he was very excited), and then back to Julia's parents for another Christmas Dinner. I think between Thanksgiving and Christmas we put on about 50 extra pounds because we eat with both families. Anyways, the only mishap of Christmas this year was that our sewage system backed up into our basement. It did not flood or anything, just made it where we had to re-wash all the clean clothes that were in the laundry room. Matt's dad came over and we got it fixed and cleaned up just fine.

Our Marriage is Blessed

2 Days after Thanksgiving. We had our Marriage Blessed in the Catholic Church. It was very nice to have both sets of parents there to witness us as we "sealed" our marriage in our Church.

Thanksgiving 2008

Ok, so I know that Thanksgiving was like 2 and a half month's ago and that we have not blogged for a while. So, we will post a few blogs today to bring you up to date. First is Thanksgiving. It was great to have Andy back this year, it gave us something extremely special to be Thankful for. Matt also had another thing to be Thankful for this year. Matt's sister came home for Thanksgiving from Montana with her husband and daughter. Matt was so excited to see her and his neice that he could hardly work on the Friday before she got here. While she was here, Matt took the week off and spent lots of time with her. He went with her to the zoo, to the holiday shows in the new shopping mall on 144th and I-25, and all sorts of things. The best part about it was we got to spend Thanksgiving with both Matt's sister and Julia's brother Andy. It was a very special Thanksgiving. Here are some pics of Matt with his sister and pics of Thanksgiving day at the Luken's house are sure to come.