Christmas of years past

One of my co-workers brought to my attention that we have had a lot of Christmas card photos and she brought them all out and showed me why you loved looking at them. So, I thought that I would share with you the Christmas card pictures of years past. Oh, how we have changed....

Our First Christmas- 20022003- this was the year that everyone at Wal-Mart saw our photo because there were hundreds of them printed and hanging up through out the store
2004- notice Chris's Scooby-Doo pj's, we cropped them out of the real photo

20052006
2007

I hope you enjoyed looking at them all. Merry Christmas!

Christmas Card 2008

You are probably wondering why you haven't received our annual photo Christmas card from us this year. Well, in an effort to cut our Christmas spending we aren't sending them out in the mail this year. I know that a few of you just throw them away anyways. So, if you really want it you can take it to Wal-Mart or some other photo place and they will print if off for you. We hope that you guys have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Love,
Melonie, Chris, Baxter, & Morgan

P.S. To get the full image you will have to click on it to open it in a new window.

Hostetler Wedding Part 3

Bosch Family:Bride & Groom:Mother & Daughter:Signing marriage license:
The Getaway:
Chris & Mel:

Hostetler's Wedding Part 2

The Wedding:

Hosteler's Wedding Part 1

Sorry it has taken me so long to finish uploading their wedding photos but here they are finally. There are going to be a lot of pictures so I am breaking this up into a couple of parts.

Getting Ready:The Groom:The Groomsmen:
The Bride:The Bridesmaids:
Brothers & Sister-in-Laws:
The Proud Parents:
Wedding Cake:Groom's Cake:

Traci & Seth's Rehearsal

Chris's little sister, Traci, got married this past weekend to a wonderful guy named Seth. They are enjoying their honeymoon in Branson right now so I thought that I would upload some photos of their wedding and rehearsal for her family and friends to look at. This posting is for the rehearsal and tomorrow I will upload some from her wedding.

Traci & Seth:
Maid of Honor & Bride:Flowergirl:

Elliot & Lauren:
Father & Bride:
Wedding Party: Notice that Justin has the infamous fart machine in his handMother of the Bride: I found a good picture of her that proves that she is photogenic!Sorry Frank I just had to post this picture:

It's Beginning to Look....

a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. I'm really far behind on posting things on our blog. A few weeks ago when Chris and I were putting up our Christmas Tree it snowed. So, we took a few pictures of it snowing and I meant to upload those photos and some photos of our holiday decorations. There will be more postings in the next few days of other events that have been going on the past few weeks. I can't believe that Christmas is just next week. Enjoy the pictures!

Our Christmas Tree:
Our Mantle:Outside decorations:

Blogplasty

I read a lot of blogs and I have noticed that everyone's blogs are so nicely decorated. So, I decided to give our blog a face lift. I'm not sure if I really like the template that much. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think. Oh, if you get the posts through e-mail you'll actually have to visit the blog to see the changes. Chris hasn't seen the changes yet so he may veto my design for another one. Have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving. Make sure to eat plenty of food and spend time with loved ones. If you have to travel be careful out there and have a blessed day. I know that our families eat a TON and are now trying to recover from it by laying on the coach preparing for the next round of eating. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Rock the vote

We stood in line for an hour and a half today and finally got to vote. If you haven't had a chance to vote yet the polls don't close till 7:30 p.m. Go out and have your voice heard. Rock the vote today!

Halloween Party: Part 2

Sorry I am posting this a day late but yesterday I didn't get home till late and Chris got home late from the football game too. Here are some more pictures from the Halloween party. It seems like everyone really liked RockBand and SingStar.Adidas Man was singing SingStarBecky was rockin' out to the Beastie Boys
Sarah Palin you can sing and see Russia from your doorstep too!Baxter wanted to sing tooGreg wanted more cowbellBad Santa was trying to corrupt Adidas Man into drinkingWe got one very interesting trick-or-treater that came to our door. Needless to say I won't post the picture of his backside.