Justin's ride

Ok so these pictures are too dark because we took them the night we got home but it's a shiny black Izuzu!!! I'll try to get some better pictures but these will have to do for now.

New Years Resolution....

This year my New Years Resolution is to keep our blog updated! We've been so bad about finding time to sit down and keep in touch with everyone because we've have been so busy...but we need to do a better job. Everyone keeps reminding me that we ARE interesting and people want to know more about our lives, especially our families...so we will make a point to try and get on here every week with updates. Let's see, the last time we blogged was Thanksgiving so we have so much to share and this is going to be one long post! We celebrated Christmas with Jenni early this year and had a little party at her house. We made a yummy dinner and then went ice skating in downtown St. Paul....on a very snowy night! We had fun running around in Rice Park. Here are a few pictures from our night.

Soon after this night, I bought Justin a new car! He is now a proud owner of an Izuzu Rodeo, a black SUV...he loves it and it gets better gas mileage than his old car so he is happy :) That was a relief because we went back and fourth about what to do and finally made a decision. I'll post some pictures of that too. On December 11th, I got Jay tickets to see a private concert by Missy Higgins, Eric Hutchinson (my favorite), and his favorite band OAR. The concert was held at the Varsity Theatre in St. Paul and there were about 100 people there....it was awesome! We stood in the front row and had an amazing time together. Aaaaaaand I got to meet Eric, so I was really excited. It was a night of great music, dancing, and fun!

Thanksgiving

This year we headed down to Missouri for Thanksgiving at Justin's Grandma's home. It was a wonderful long weekend full of family and many friendly faces. At times, we had over 30 people there! Her house was definetly packed, and we had a great time visiting with everyone...what a wonderful family I married into! On Friday, some of us got up and went out in the wee hours of the morning for black Friday shopping....and man was it worth it! We got some great deals. The rest of the family helped around the house. They live on a "farm" so there is always work to do. Some of the family built a retaining wall along the side of the house and raked and burned leaves on her huge property to prepare for winter. The weather was beautiful! It reached 60 degrees and was a nice change from our chilly weather here at home. Justin's Grandma is an amazing cook and our meals were delicious. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, cheesy potatoes, sweet potatoes, homemade stuffing, real cranberries, green beans, jello salads, homemade bread, homemade apricot jam & apple butter, chicken breast and yummy beef brisket, to name a few! She also made homemade sweet rolls, pumpkin and apple pies. And then there was Joker. The favorite game of the Feldkamp family! we played and played and played until it was almost morning some nights. We had a great time sitting and talking with one another and enjoying the company. We were sad to leave on Sunday! It was a successful trip :)