Chumbawamba was a good band...

Kona now spends most of his time on our balcony...He barks at the dump truck, our neighbors and anything else that may come by.  Yes, Kona, I do feel safe with you keeping watch :)

A little dedication to my favorite dad-in-law

One word....Sexy. 

We're headed to Colorado in the morning so I will have a lot of awesome pictures for you when we get back!  Pray that I don't die...i've never skied before.  This could be bad...or it could be great.  Guess we'll find out!  Have a great week my friends!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas was pretty much the most uneventful day ever in the Dees' home.  Since it was just the two of us and we had ZERO places to be we stuck around the apartment all day...no showers, change of clothes or anything.  Oh yes it was amazing!  I did attempt to cook a Christmas dinner and if I do say so myself it was pretty good (if you could get passed the extra marshmellows in the sweet potato casserole).  Anyways, I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas. 

Kona's stocking was packed full...a little ridiculously since he is just a dog!

Christmas Eve pj's made even better when they are Christmas Story pjs!!

Kona and his toys on Christmas morning!

Another black pullover!! Can't have too many (in my opinion anyways)!

Feeding a bad habit...but he's only played it once so far.  He's still stuck on the Kinect Sports.  He HAS to get the top score in bowling.

Best stocking stuffer ever!  My lips will be forever grateful. 

Christmas Dinner at the Dees' home!  You should have been there...

P.S. I think I'm now a huge fan of Christmas Day falling on Saturday.  It allowed for us to go to the Christmas eve service at church on Friday and then go to church Sunday too!  What an awesome weekend of Worship! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MATT!!!

So this week we celebrated Matthew Ray's Birthday!  Ok so we didn't do a lot to celebrate but it was definitely the best way to kick off the week of Christmas!

In honor of my husband I wore this on his birthday...I believe he was a little embarrassed.

Matt was excited when he saw presents but the smile faded when he realized I paid for it with his money!  "But honey, it's our money.

He finally smiled when I brought this out! 

This week we threw a Christmas party for the Wyldlife student leaders.  Never in my life have I seen people bring live animals for the Stingy Santa game!  It was probably the most amazing thing ever!

Animal #1 a hamster named the general

Animal #2 a beta fish that was definitely stolen from me a few rounds later. 

 

 Oh Kona...

He's cute but he's BAD!

And yet Santa still comes early and fills his stocking full of toys.

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Smoky Mountain Christmas!

So Matt and I were blessed with a trip to Tennessee.  We were able to hang out with familly and friends, visit the Biltmore Estate, and play in the snow!  After delayed flights, canceled flights, a broken wheel on the suitcase, and very little sleep we made it back to warm and sunny Texas but nothing compares to East Tennessee!  Here are a few pictures from our trip...

Action Shot!

Matt was excited to be at the Biltmore!

Can you believe this is chicken pot pie!?!

Cheerwine even makes matt smile!

I'm not sure what's worse...matt wearing a snuggie or matt wearing a vols snuggie

A few more pictures...

My Mom got Kona a blanket for Christmas and I think he might actually like it!

Christmas party with some of the young life and wyldlife leaders in the Houston Bay Area region.

I'm just soo happy it's Christmas time!

My favorite ornament on our little Christmas tree.

Matt has these ghetto lights and I actually let him put them outside...

This is what will happen to your face if you get on Kona's bad side!

a quick catch up...

So since I'm soo far behind on my blog I'm going to post a few pictures to get you caught up on what's been going on at the Dees' home...

So, I thought that I should clean out all our junk...doesn't this guest room look like it's ready for you to come stay!?!  I did finally finish this room and it really did help but goodness we have a lot of stuff.

 My neighbor caught a really big fish!

My most favorite thing in my apartment!

 Caramel Apple Cheesecake...yes please!!

 Sweet potato pie...no thanks...

This kid is starting the coffee addiction and friday nights at book stores a little early.

We added a few additions to our family...ok maybe not.  But this family of 6 just adopted 3 more kids!  How awesome it is to meet people with such big hearts!  We had a fun time photographing and hanging out with this family.  

So what if it's December, it's still warm and sunny here in Texas!

This is what happens when you aren't working and have nothing better to do. 

Why are my flowers blooming in December??  It just doesn't make much sense.

 More flowers...but these were for our 1 year anniversary!

We went to the zoo on our anniversary and this little friendly lion posed for a picture!