Happy Thanksgiving!

Well everyone,

Happy Thanksgiving! It'll be very sad and strange not to be around family for the first time ever. But we do have some church family to spend a Thanksgiving meal with, and we're very happy about that. We bought a nice big turkey before we realized a family was inviting people over, so we're going to have our Thanksgiving meal Saturday!

But that's not all, as we were getting into the holiday mood, I decided it fitting to hike down the mesa trail and chop down a big old Christmas tree.



Well, that's not a terribly big tree, I admit. Plus, I think that carries about a $10,000 fine. So, on a second thought, we decided to go to King Soopers (that's Kroger in West-ese) and pick one up :)! It's about 3 feet tall, and we were quite excited. Evidently these trees sell out quickly because of so many apartments around the area. THEN, we went to Dollar Tree and Target for the decorations. The topper is an angel ornament my (Matt's) granny gave to Shannon last Christmas. Here are a few pictures of its radiance.

From Christmas Tree '08

Anyway, we miss everyone, and pray you all have a great Thanksgiving!

-Matt & Shannon

More snow pictures from Nov. 14

Here are some snow pictures from the Mesa Trail out back of National Center for Atmospheric Research where I work. The Flatirons look really cool with their outlining of snow along the edges. It's funny, about three of four hours after the snow, it had pretty much completely melted. Anyway, click the picture below to see all the pictures. Enjoy!

From Mesa Trail Snow Nov. 4, 2008

Shannon and I are doing well still. We're really enjoying the church we're going to up here, Flatirons Baptist. And tonight we're having dinner with friends :). We love yall, take care and God bless,

-Matt + Shannon

First Snow of the Year!

We walked outside this morning, and we saw this!








Well, we have to go to work, but just wanted to share with everyone :). We'll have more pictures of the snow later. I'm taking the camera to the Mesa lab today which is higher in elevation and should have more snow :). Take care, love yall,

-Matt & Shannon