Lounging with our friends

Since we all had a few days off for the Holiday Weekend we decided to enjoy our time together. We hit up Aggieville while all of the college kids were out of town - we had a great time!

TURKEY DAY

Travis & I shared our 1st Thanksgiving together as a married couple in Kansas away from our families. But, God has blessed us with wonderful friends in Manhattan & we were thankful to have a wonderful feast with them. After the fabulous meal we watched football & played 'Catch Phrase' till night fall.

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We were all in charge of different parts of the meal & the Wodiske's were in charge of the 10lbs of Mashed Potatoes, the Candied Yams & the Green Bean Casserole! (YUM-O)

Our MASTER CARVER cutting up the Turkey... (Trav did a great job!)

Trey-Trey preying that Travis would drop some of that delicious Turkey.Christopher & I prepping the food!

Jocelyn keeping all of the other dogs (Jackson, Figgins & Big-Mac) company while we prepped the food in the house.

Residency Applications are out!

Residency Applications have been mailed! Please pray for God's Will in this situation.

We applied to 17 schools & we are competing with anywhere from 2-3,000 Veterinarians.

(The results will be posted in early March...)

Trav's Golden Birthday!!!

That's right, Travis turned 26 on the 26th!

He had a wonderful day filled with lots of love! Starting with cherished phone calls from all of his family and friends, his clinical oncology rotation took him out for breakfast, he had blue-confetti cupcakes brought to him at work from his wife, lunch brought to him at school, etc.

Then a night out with his friends. We took him to dinner at So-Long-Saloon, followed by Sangria at Coco Bolo's and of course more laughter and celebration at the CatHouse! We had a ball!

I think Travis enjoyed turning 26!

CELEBRATION FLOWERS

Thank you for the celebratory flowers Grandma!

(This is the 1st bouquet we have received as a couple!)

FALL BALL - LAST GAME

Travis played on a Men's Fall-League

Softball Team with fellow vet students.
These are some photos that I took with a professional photography camera of his last softball game. (Which they won in the 8th Inning!)

~The Team
~The Winning Score
~Artistic Photo

~Run Chris Run!

~Perfect!

~Get up Big Baby!

~Fall Leaves

~Chris is happy - even when he runs.

~Grand Slam !

~Wipe out!

Season 4 of 24... Check!

We finished Season 4!

2 more seasons (Or 48 Hours) to go & about 1 month to do so in.

We are on a race against time!

Can we do it - we shall see.

To be continued...

Christmas Tree Shopping

Since we are newlyweds we do not own a Christmas Tree, and with Christmas right around the corner we decided to go pick one out at our handy-dandy Christmas Headquarters. So we jumped in the Hyundai and headed over to our neighborhood Walmart.

Walmart has a fabulous Christmas Tree selection! They offer a full-size tree display area to make it easy on the buyer when looking for that perfect tree. Which we did... we fell in love with this 4-foot, pre-lit, Indiana Spruce - isn't she a beauty!

Once we found our Christmas Tree, we decided to pick up a few other necessities... such as a tree topper and skirt. We decided to go with a sparkly snowflake theme. (Since we now live in a location that gets snowflakes!) While shopping around we decided to become Santa's little helper and a Reindeer. (We had way too much fun!)

When we finally got all of our shopping done, all that we had left to do was to get our new Christmas Tree home for some decorating!

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THE FINISHED TREE!!!

NOW OUR HOME HAS A CHRISTMAS FEEL TO IT!!!

Trav, was it really worth it ???

As we were driving to church this morning Travis spotted a dead buck on the side of the road. He swerved over a lane to get us in a ditch so that he could go back for it- without even thinking. Now picture this, we are dressed in our Sunday best and he wants to go cut-off the head of this buck for its antlers (why anyone would want antlers of a buck they didn't kill themselves, beats me). Then Travis proceeds to say, " Honey, you go on to church I will meet you there once I am done here." Crazy, I know! Of course he knew that wouldn't fly so instead he just covered the buck up in the brush so that he could come back for it after church.

(See the below photos of Travis hiding the buck carcass in the brush...)

When we got home from church Travis changed and hopped in his truck to go back for the buck head. Which he got. Here is where the problems arise. Someone in our apartment saw the head in the back of Travis' truck and called wildlife authorities. So about an hour later while I was minding my own business and Travis was taking an afternoon nap. I answered the door to two wildlife rangers who asked specifically for Travis by name.

I woke him up from his nap by telling him that wildlife police were at the door for him (he thought I was lying and made the whole situation up - yeah, I made that up!) Once he met the officers at our door he explained the situation and he had to hand over the head and drive them over to the site where he found the animal carcass. Travis was not in trouble and image it, Travis became friends with the officers and talked hunting with them for another 15minutes after the whole situation was said and done. But, since he bothered someone enough to call it in - they had to confiscate the head... good thing we got the photo when we did.

Never a dull minute with Travis.

ABC Family!

Thanks to ABC Family - Christmas is coming soon!

ONE of my favorite things to do during the holiday season is to watch Christmas movies!

And the best place to do so is on the Family Channel's:

'Countdown to 25 days of Christmas'

Christmas movies every night of the week.
(Dad-sorry you have to watch them without me this year).

Travs 1st Birthday Arrival...

Trav's buddy Chad sent him his 1st Birthday present & as you can tell from the photo -

it was a fun gift to receive.

We definately got a kick out of it.

Thanks for the shirt and the laugh Chad!

HEATER TIME

It is off the charts freezing - officially. We have come to a decision that the heater must be turned on! Manhattan is now staying in the 40's and below and believe me it is no Arizona weather.

Thank God for a HEATER!!!

SUSHI NIGHT

Chris threw a 'sushi making party' at his house; who knew squishy wet rice could be so fun. We all rolled our own meals (If you are wondering, no I did not eat my roll - I still do not like sushi - I actually baked a pizza for my personal EATING enjoyment.) And as you can tell from my photo I used way too much rice, oops.

Good Times.