Happy New Year from the Halvorsens--New Braunfels New Year's Trip 2009-2010!!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
We wanted to pause a moment and wish a very happy and blessed new year to all of our wonderful family and friends!!! May you all have a fabulous 2010!
Happy New Year from the Halvorsens--New Braunfels New Year's Trip 2009-2010!!
Happy New Year from the Halvorsens--New Braunfels New Year's Trip 2009-2010!!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful friends and family!
We hope you all have a blessed and wonderful Christmas and that anyone traveling is safe and warm!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Time flies...
...when you're having FUN! Since our trip to Denver, life has been a whirlwind! Finishing up grad school projects, going back to teaching full time after my intern left, celebrating Thanksgiving, and of course preparing for the blessed Christmas season--my favorite time of the year!!!
Here's a little of what we've been up to:
For Thanksgiving, we continued our tradition and spent the day at Justin's sister, Andrea's house. It was hard to believe that it was my 6th Thanksgiving at the Schlafer house! Wow! We were joined by Justin's parents, Aunt Tracey (Kyle's sister), and a friend from Kyle's work. We had a great day eating wonderful food and browsing through the Black Friday ads. Yes, that's right folks, I was up and ready to go again for my sixth year of Black Friday here in Austin. It's a fun time, though I do wish I had friends or family to go with me! This year Kohl's was first on my list, because I had LOTS of things to get. Because I had so many things to grab at that store, I knew I would have to get there extra early to snag one of the few, and precious carts. I planned to be there by 3am (last year I got there about 3:30 and it was not early enough!) but I happened to be awake before my alarm, and of course I was so excited I could NOT sleep, so I was actually at the store by just before 2:30am. But, I was prepared this year! I was the fifth lady in line (so I was not quite the craziest person there) and I had a big blanket and a book to keep me busy until they opened at 4am. At 4, I grabbed my cart, grabbed more than half of all the gifts I needed to buy for the year, and braved the LONG line for the cashiers! Luckily, by then, my mom was awake so she kept me busy chatting in line =). Sure wish she lived closer so she could have been with me in person! After Kohl's, I of course hit the other regular stores and finished up about 1pm. All in all, a great day! And, I had 99% of my shopping DONE! After that, Justin and I enjoyed watching NE beat CO =).
After Thanksgiving, there were only three weeks of school left in the semester--which was crazy! I was very busy trying to finish up units, get students prepared for finals, and get all the finals written! It was definitely a whirlwind three weeks! Plus, we kept busy celebrating Justin's 32nd birthday, attending small group Advents, and having a blast at our annual small group Christmas party.
Thanksgiving Pictures:
This is actually when we were babysitting the girls after Thanksgiving for Andrea's birthday...Abigail is on the left and Hailey is on the right)
McKayla and Aunt Michelle...I love this picture!
Justin and I...our SIXTH Thanksgiving together--wow!!!
The Halvorsen/Schlafer Family...a little tough to get all the little people to look at the camera at the same time =)
Finally this week, school finished up and we started to slow down, sort of =). Yesterday we were able to celebrate Christmas with Justin's family, and it was lots of fun. My favorite two parts of the evening were when I first arrived and McKayla told me she was ready to come visit my house again, and mommy said she could, once her and the twins were healthy again (they've all been sick recently). Then, later in the evening we were playing (just Aunt Michelle and McKayla time) and she wanted to know if I could go ahead and spend the night...too cute! Her Aunt Tracey lives in CO, so she gets to stay the night, so I guess she thought Aunt Michelle should be able to stay the night too...makes perfect sense...right? Of course it was also fun to see the girls open all their gifts--my favorite part of Christmas is the gift giving! McKayla of course loves it since she still gets to help everyone else. She'll be bored one day soon when Abigail and Hailey can open their own gifts =)!
Halvorsen/Schlafer Christmas:
Hailey
Abigail and McKayla opening presents...Abigail pretty much just loves ripping up the paper!
Justin with his buddy Abigail
Grandma and Abigail--she was quite pleased with herself =)
Today we've been busily preparing for our trip to NE. We will head out tomorrow at 3:30am for the LOOOONG drive to NE. Long, but totally worth it! We're so excited to be able to spend the whole week in NE with my family. It seems impossible that I haven't seen Re since Memorial Day and haven't seen my parents since early June. Wow! Justin and Kat will be there Wed evening, so then the whole family will have a few days of fun together celebrating all the wonder of Christmas!
That's the wrap from here for now. To my Nebraska friends Amy & Rachael--can't wait to see you gals in G.I. and travel safely!!! To all my other family and friends--we wish a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year! I'll post again after we're back from NE with the "NE Christmas" pictures.
Here's a little of what we've been up to:
For Thanksgiving, we continued our tradition and spent the day at Justin's sister, Andrea's house. It was hard to believe that it was my 6th Thanksgiving at the Schlafer house! Wow! We were joined by Justin's parents, Aunt Tracey (Kyle's sister), and a friend from Kyle's work. We had a great day eating wonderful food and browsing through the Black Friday ads. Yes, that's right folks, I was up and ready to go again for my sixth year of Black Friday here in Austin. It's a fun time, though I do wish I had friends or family to go with me! This year Kohl's was first on my list, because I had LOTS of things to get. Because I had so many things to grab at that store, I knew I would have to get there extra early to snag one of the few, and precious carts. I planned to be there by 3am (last year I got there about 3:30 and it was not early enough!) but I happened to be awake before my alarm, and of course I was so excited I could NOT sleep, so I was actually at the store by just before 2:30am. But, I was prepared this year! I was the fifth lady in line (so I was not quite the craziest person there) and I had a big blanket and a book to keep me busy until they opened at 4am. At 4, I grabbed my cart, grabbed more than half of all the gifts I needed to buy for the year, and braved the LONG line for the cashiers! Luckily, by then, my mom was awake so she kept me busy chatting in line =). Sure wish she lived closer so she could have been with me in person! After Kohl's, I of course hit the other regular stores and finished up about 1pm. All in all, a great day! And, I had 99% of my shopping DONE! After that, Justin and I enjoyed watching NE beat CO =).
After Thanksgiving, there were only three weeks of school left in the semester--which was crazy! I was very busy trying to finish up units, get students prepared for finals, and get all the finals written! It was definitely a whirlwind three weeks! Plus, we kept busy celebrating Justin's 32nd birthday, attending small group Advents, and having a blast at our annual small group Christmas party.
Thanksgiving Pictures:
This is actually when we were babysitting the girls after Thanksgiving for Andrea's birthday...Abigail is on the left and Hailey is on the right)
McKayla and Aunt Michelle...I love this picture!
Justin and I...our SIXTH Thanksgiving together--wow!!!
The Halvorsen/Schlafer Family...a little tough to get all the little people to look at the camera at the same time =)
Finally this week, school finished up and we started to slow down, sort of =). Yesterday we were able to celebrate Christmas with Justin's family, and it was lots of fun. My favorite two parts of the evening were when I first arrived and McKayla told me she was ready to come visit my house again, and mommy said she could, once her and the twins were healthy again (they've all been sick recently). Then, later in the evening we were playing (just Aunt Michelle and McKayla time) and she wanted to know if I could go ahead and spend the night...too cute! Her Aunt Tracey lives in CO, so she gets to stay the night, so I guess she thought Aunt Michelle should be able to stay the night too...makes perfect sense...right? Of course it was also fun to see the girls open all their gifts--my favorite part of Christmas is the gift giving! McKayla of course loves it since she still gets to help everyone else. She'll be bored one day soon when Abigail and Hailey can open their own gifts =)!
Halvorsen/Schlafer Christmas:
Hailey
Abigail and McKayla opening presents...Abigail pretty much just loves ripping up the paper!
Justin with his buddy Abigail
Grandma and Abigail--she was quite pleased with herself =)
Today we've been busily preparing for our trip to NE. We will head out tomorrow at 3:30am for the LOOOONG drive to NE. Long, but totally worth it! We're so excited to be able to spend the whole week in NE with my family. It seems impossible that I haven't seen Re since Memorial Day and haven't seen my parents since early June. Wow! Justin and Kat will be there Wed evening, so then the whole family will have a few days of fun together celebrating all the wonder of Christmas!
That's the wrap from here for now. To my Nebraska friends Amy & Rachael--can't wait to see you gals in G.I. and travel safely!!! To all my other family and friends--we wish a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year! I'll post again after we're back from NE with the "NE Christmas" pictures.
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