A New Year brings lots of new things....

We had a GREAT Christmas break with our family and friends this year. It all started with the Annual Christmas Party at our house with all our friends. This years gift exchange theme was "As Seen on TV" so everyone had lots of fun gifts to go home with like snuggies, Aqua Globes and Bump It's.
The Christmas party is always full of great eats & drinks (I think our special sangria will be a yearly addition after our superb 'first go' at it) and lots of laughs with our closest friends.. a great way to kick off the holiday season.

Trae and I went into San Antonio on the 22nd to spend time with my younger brother, David who just returned home from his 2 year Peace Corps duty in Morrocco. We got to get some last minute shopping done, drink a couple yummy margaritas and Trae finally got to test out the famous Chris Madrids burger. Burger Verdict?? Trae votes "overrated".

My older brother, Paul, sister-in-law, Mandy and my niece, Addison came in on XMAS EVE to open presents with all of us. We all got great goodies from Santa and had a fun time watching Addison tear open her gifts.







We left early XMAS morning to head to a snowy Glen Rose bustling with activity. Sharon & Carrie were busy cooking Christmas dinner and Milton, Tanner & Trent were busy de-icing walkways. Within an hour of our arrival, there were an additional 25 people of Trae's extended family had arrived and dinner was served! Whew! If nothing else, Trae and I can positively say that we ate WELL over our two-family Christmas break and we must have been very good, because Santa was very generous this year. We even got our first gifts off our registry!!

We stayed in Glen Rose for a few days to relax before we headed back home. We talked a lot about upcoming wedding duties and parties and booked a couples shower that Trae's family and friends will be throwing us in Glen Rose on May 15th. We can't wait to show all our friends Stone Mountain Ranch & celebrate becoming man & wife.

Thank you to both our families for a GREAT Christmas!!

Next week we leave to go root on our UT Longhorns in Pasadena, CA for the National Championships! Many of our friends and family are also going, so we should have some great photos to upload when we get back.

Also, our other wedding website is up and running: www.mywedding.com/traeandcyndi
Check there for all specific wedding details and to sign our guestbook.