Thursday, December 11, 2008

Are you there readers? It's Me, Mauri....

So, In case you haven't noticed, I've been on a bit of a blog hiatus. Well, maybe that's an understatement. I haven't been a good blog writer or even reader the past few months. So, I'm going to try and be better, if any of you still even read. So, what have we been up to since August? Here's a quick recap:

September:
One word: pledging. I don't think I took a single picture in September. Sorry. But life was much better this year because I have a new administrative coordinator to help me out! YAY!

October:




I helped organized Jam Fest for ACU's homecoming, and in the process got a lot of glow in the dark things.










We got to have some great friends come visit us for homecoming weekend, and no one got food poisoning this time!












Gatsby had a great Halloween!










November:






I got to celebrate with my sweet friend Jamie the upcoming arrival of her little boy with my precious college friends!







A couple of weekends later we celebrated our 6th anniversary (CRAZY) by spending a few days shopping in the Big D and going to the Coldplay concert, which was AMAZING. But the best part was spending time with my beloved. We had so much fun together we didn't even remember to take pictures!


We had a great Thanksgiving with my parents.... despite my 24 hour stomach bug that hit me on Thanksgiving day. Ick. But luckily by Friday I felt like going to the ICE exhibit at the Gaylord. Too cool. A must see for all you DFW folks!








































December:
  • We got to have a great visit with my brother who finally came and spent a weekend with us!
  • We've begun the holiday celebrations, kicking them off with our small group holiday party. We had a cookie exchange where every family got cookies from all of the other families. And yes, Chris and I have eaten dozens of cookies this week. Nothing like gearing up for holiday eating!
  • And we are officially caught up.
In other news, I'd like to ask all of you to keep my sweet friend Jodi and her family in your prayers. I'm actually updating my blog at her request! Jodi gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Tuesday, Brooklyn Hope. Brooklyn has spina bifida, and had surgery yesterday. We are so thankful Brooklyn had a safe arrival into this world and that her surgery went well, but I know there is a long road ahead for this precious family!

Love to all! Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!

6 comments:

Macy said...

Well, it's about time! If I saw Welcome Week+A Decade one more time, I was going to Scream! I can say that because it was your poking and proding that finslly pushed me into starting a blog. I love you and I am glad you are back. Yes....Meg did grow up overnight. She is a full grown todler!

Anonymous said...

Yay! I'm so glad you're back. I've checked your blog just about every day just to be disappointed over and over. I almost didn't check today. Glad I did. See you tonight at the World Tour party!

Jodi said...

THANK YOU sweet friend!!! Thank you for the new post, among countless other things right now. Know that I love you beyond words. :)

Anonymous said...

Hooray for an update!

Andrea W. said...

There you are! I was starting to worry about you. Thanks for the updates.

Kayla said...

Yay! I'm so glad you updated. I thought you might have given up. I hope you and Chris have a great Christmas. We're flying to Texas tomorrow (yay!) Hopefully, we'll make it out. The weather's kind of a mess up here.