Our Europe Honeymoon

I know I know I know, its been almost 2 months since we got back, but here they finally are!!! To fill in some of you, we went on our honeymoon in November for 3 great weeks. We started in Spain, going where ever the wind blew us, then went to visit a friend on the island of Cyprus, then headed over to Italy to meet up with some friends there. It was amazing and can't wait to go back to explore all of what Europe has to offer!

Click on the photos to go the web album of each stop we made!

Madrid

Toledo

Sevilla

Granada

Barcelona

Cyprus

Italy

What is this world coming to?

Careful walking around Boulder, you never know what will hit you!!!

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Kitchen Progress

Here are some pictures of the "before", and then some "during", and then some of the wall totally gone now that the support beam is installed in the attic!!!! :) :)

Our new house

A lot of far away friends have been wanting to see pictures of our house we just bought in Boulder. And, since we are beginning our TOTAL kitchen remodel on Monday, we thought we'd show you what it looks like before. These pictures were taken during our inspection back in October, so it still wasn't ours then...and we've done some things already. So we'll have to post more pictures later. But here's an idea of what it looks like. Look for updated Kitchen pictures in about a week!

Our new house!

Xmas 2008

For this year's holiday, we were so happy to have Ben's parents come up with us to my parents house in Nebraska for some good relaxing holiday time!

Here we are at my grandparents house having our (the Reed side) traditional Christmas Eve dinner of chili and oyster soup. Then we all gathered for a Kriederman tradition of a group "7 & 7" drink!

The moms chatting while Ben relaxes after the 5 hour drive

Four generations, minus my sister. My grandma to the right, then my mom holding her granddaughter Kayla.

We brought the dogs up to play on the 40 acres with my parents new dog shadow. They had so much fun they almost died!!! - basically they found some rat poison that they thought would be delicious. Luckily we caught them and poured some peroxide down their throats so they would puke it up, it worked!!!

Xmas 2008

The visitors! Thanks Mom and Dad for putting up with us all!

Ben and his parents

My sister Amber and her husband Ty.

My cute niece Kayla

Some weird chick that showed up :)

Xmas 2008

My parents dog, Shadow, patiently waiting for some turkey scraps

Our moms cooking up the stuffing!

Mmmmm, christmas candy!

My dad carving up the turkey

Xmas 2008

Kayla's turn to open presents!

Kissing a teddy bear from Aunt Lisa

Ty trying to wear Kayla's new hat

Awwwwe, so cute!

Xmas 2008

My mom quilted everyone their own holiday table runner!

Gramps wondering what the heck is in the box :)

Ben's parents opening their spa gift from us.

Amber displaying her nail file set from Ben's parents. She LOVES it, Ty HATES it :) (he can't stand the sound of nail filing)

Xmas 2008

Here's some of our presents! Ben with his new UofA hat

Amber and Ty got us a ski/snowboard bag - awesome!

My parents gave us a Home Depot gift card - which will be WELL spent on our kitchen remodel!!!

Some fun funky stockings/slippers from Ben's parents

Xmas 2008

The day after xmas, it was my mom's birthday. Kayla wanted to help her make pancakes for breakfast.

My mom's expression after seeing what Ben and I got her - an iPod. :)

She'll be warm now after getting 2 scarves and mittens too!

Kayla and Amber enjoying the relaxing time.