December Happenings

To keep myself occupied, I have been decorating the nursery. My parents bought Bryan and I a chest deep freezer for Christmas. Since we have limited room in our apartment home, I made a dust ruffle to cover the freezer act, acting as a changing table. Cute huh?

 Then I recovered a bumper Bryan's mom gave us, to go more with the neutral theme. I am doing yellow and grey for now, and then when we find out the sex, I will add splashes of blue or pink. 

Christmas morning was fun! Santa must have thought we were really good all year. The weather wasn't cooperative though. We had flash floods and tornado warnings. Crazy!

Santa brought us a Recaro baby car seat, Burley bike trailer/jogger, Tangled, Cinderella, Despicable Me, black cowboy boots, lasers for the 45 and glock, printed digital scrapbook for 2010 & 2011, 3 prong curling iron and hair dryer, life vests, and bed sheets. 

This is me Christmas Day (33 3/7) before going out to see Jack Reacher. It was actually a really good Tom Cruise movie, highly recommend. We wanted to see Les Miserables, but our theater didn't have it :(  

We went to the Festival of Lights in Natchitoches, LA. It's a fun tourist town where the movie Steel Magnolia was filmed. They had snow blowing machines, a live band, a zip line, boutique and antique shopping, a light show, and fireworks. It will definitely be something we will do next year!

Oh, we also celebrated our 7th Year Anniversary this month. Crazy huh? I made a delectable steak, with acorn squash, sweet potatoes, and broccoli for dinner and then we enjoyed a Netflick's movie on the couch. How special!

2012 Christmas Letter

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

We have had quite the eventful year; full of many changes and of course many more to come!

Bryan graduated with his Doctor of Optometry in May and started working for the United States Army in June. He was assigned to be the Company Commander of the 33^rd Medical Detachment of the 115^th Combat Support Hospital in Fort Polk, Louisiana. Since then, he has gone to Officer’s Basic Training, a Commander’s Course, and a month long field training exercise where his optometry team made over 100 glasses and completed over 100 exams for soldiers at this training. He continues to excel in all he does, both physically and mentally.  He is a wonderful person, husband, and friend.

Rebekah traveled to Korea and Alabama during the beginning of the year to further her nursing training (which was excellent), but decided it was time to call it quits with the Army. She traded in her boots to be an Army wife, a civilian nurse, and a soon to be mom. Yup! We are expecting our first child early February, or whenever he or she decides to come. There are a lot of changes headed our way, but we couldn’t be more excited.

We have enjoyed finally living together and being a “real” married couple.  No more driving back and forth the see one another or long distance phone/internet chats.  We were truly blessed with great support from family and friends during the last 4 years. The lessons learned and the relationships built will forever guide us. We want to send our love to you and your family and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Bryan and Rebekah Ahlborn