Sunday, December 23, 2007

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Wishing you all the best this holiday season! Hope you have a Merry Christmas. We are traveling back to Iowa on the 23rd for Christmas! I can't wait! My brother gets married on New Year's so stay tuned for more pics.

Amber's Rehearsal Dinner



Andy with his dad and brothers

Wine Tasting in SLO







Dane, Amber, and Erik. Both of these guys were in our wedding party!
Alan, Alicia, Ann and I stuffing our faces before the wine train left for the wine tasting
Andy and I on the win tour

Amber with Colleen her grandmother

Amber and Kevin's Wedding

Amber and Kevin got married on June 30th, 2007 in San Luis Obispo, CA. Here we are before the wedding all arriving into town for dinner.
The bride and groom to be
Amber with her mother
Amber and some of the bridesmaids went out for martinis that night and ran into a few friends. Here is Amber with Dane
Cheers! Georgia, Jenny, Jen, Ann, Toni and Amber

The End


This is where everyone "showers" off after the race.
Andy after the race, what a babe!!!

Muddy Buddy Race April '07

This race gets bigger and bigger every year! Here is a pic of people starting to line up.
At the end of the race before you cross the finish line you have to crawl through this puddle of mud with your partner. Here they are just about ready to cross the finish line! Go Andy!
Post Race! Disgusting!!!
Here they are...they made it. Andy was like the only one that wore pants in this race, i can't imagine participating in a race wearing dress pants

Muddy Buddy Bike Race April '07

For the past two year Andrew and his friend Rob have participated in this Muddy Buddy Race. To enter you have to have a partner, it is more or less a relay where when one bikes, the other runs and vice versa. People get really creative with this race and dress up in different costumes. It is all for fun! Here they are pre-race.
This is just to give you an idea what some of the costumes look like on that day!

Here they are at the starting line
Andy with his $$ glasses on. He would have never made across the finish line without these!

Family Time!

My Dad and Jesse came out in March for about 10 days. We had soo much fun! Here we are standing to the side of the Golden Gate bridge. What a site.
After the Golden Gate bridge we headed to see the Redwoods, which everyone loves! Isn't this tree amazing?
One day we all headed down to Monterey/Carmel area and we are just standing next to the ocean near 17 mile drive. California is amazing!
We took Dad, Jess, Moe, Lance, Alex and Alan to the Ritz Carlton brunch in Half Moon Bay, another great day and memory!

Sales Person of the Year '07

This had to be one of my most memorable events this past year. I was honored to be Sales Person of the Year with Pulte Homes. I got to pick out a Rolex and here I am after picking up my gorgeous watch! I don't know what is funnier this pic of me or the green gum in my mouth!!! Makes me wonder how in the heck did I win this??? :-)

THE RACE!

After we had a few beers we got recruited by the ski patrol in their "Annual cafetria tray sledding race". It was hillarious! You have to pick a tray out from the cafeteria and walk up this hill and sled down the hill! I only made it half way down because Amber and I ran into each other. Maybe next year! I will have to polish up my tray sledding abilities.

It's Pabst Blue Ribbon Time!

In Sun Valley Kevin introduced us to a tradition that we will never forget! That beer is PABST BLUE RIBBON, you got it!



What a day!

Sun Valley, ID (Feb '07)

This is all pre-pregnancy, but I am having soo much fun loading these pics I thought I would show some of of the things we did this past year! Here I am doing a snow angel in my snow bunny attire before we hit the slopes.
Here I am getting ready to hit the slopes with my new ski gear that Andy had gotten me for my birthday this past year...seriously I am such a SPAZ!
Andrew and Kevin getting ready to snowboard
Kevin and Amber

Here we are on top of the mountain. FYI the entire top of the mountain was ice, it was soo scary but we still managed to get in a couple of runs. Kudos to Kevin and Andy for being soo patient with Amber and I. :-)

Thanksgiving at our house

Here is the Howard clan at our house for Thanksgiving this year. Andy and I hosted about 18 people! We had soo much fun. Here is everyone from left to right. Back row starting from the left: Corban (Ann's husband), Ann (in front of Corban, Andrew's sister), Lance (Andrew's dad), Moe (Andrew's mom), Alan (to the right of Lance, Andrew's brother), Alicia (in front of Alan, Andrew's sister), Alex (next to Alicia, Andrew's brother), Kevin (Amber's husband), Amber (in front of Kevin, Andrew's sister), Andrew and last but not least me. Whew!
The really cool thing about being pregnant is that Ann(Andrew's sister) is just 5 weeks ahead of me! We are prego at the same time. Tiffy (Andy's cousin) is rubbing both of our bellies. Here I am 20 weeks and Ann is 25 weeks. The crazy thing is that neither one of us is finding what what we are having!!!!

Amber and Kevin Petit

Amber and I getting a pic with the gorgeous sunset



Here is everyone that went up to cut down the Christmas tree, we had soo much fun!