Merry Christmas

John's parents came to St. Louis to celebrate Christmas this year. John wasn't able to take any time off so we couldn't go anywhere. It was great. We loved having Christmas at our place!! I even cooked Christmas dinner/lunch....with Elaine's help of course and it was really good!!

John and I - Christmas Eve after church.

John and Elaine after Church

Opening gifts and other Christmas doings .... the flowers are from my mom and dad for our table at dinner.

Dinner time!!!

Putting together the St. Louis puzzle....it is of the New Busch Stadium. We finished and are going to have it framed.

Now this was my project this weekend (with a LITTLE of John's help). I re-did the bathroom!!! I love it!!! The new stuff was Christmas gifts from my mom and Nana!

The Before

And the AFTER!!!!

And I will end w/ J.J.'s new thing. He likes to drink out of the sink!

Andrea's Wedding

Andrea (my lifelong friend....seriously we were born only a few days apart in the same hospital and went to elementary school together) was married to Derrick this past weekend. The wedding was beautiful and very fitting for Andy! The are such a wonderful couple... The vows
The rings

The Kiss

First Dance

They are so happy
Dancing w/ her dad. This cake was gorgeous!! I have never seen anything like it.

The toast

The 6 from high school - minus Jennifer who was missed!

The Bride and I - all grown up!

The fam in front of the Christmas decor at the wedding.

Well there is a lot more that went on this weekend and I have more pictures from them all. My brother graduated and we celebrated w/ a party. I will post those later.

We are home again

Weekend = BUSY (but still fun). Lot of pictures, but I am too lazy to put them on here now.

However this is what we came home to!!

Traveling again

We are headed to Nashville tonight so that we can be there for my brother's college graduation tomorrow. My little bro isn't so little anymore (actually he hasn't been for a while now). Saturday is another wedding (#9 for the year) and Sunday is an early Christmas celebration with my family.

There will be lots of pictures...you know me!!

Lots Going on for the Robi

So it has been a while...and things are very busy for us. I have finished all the Christmas decorations (actually I did a week ago). John's parents came to visit last weekend and I was in a wedding this weekend. Amy was my college roommate and sorority sister. It was a wonderful wedding and we had fun with friends!

John helping with the lights :-)

Us attempting to take are Christmas card photo, but there is one better.

Now on to the wedding.

All the bridesmaids!Just a cute pic before he got to see her during the ceremony. The ceremony - exchanging rings.

Right after the ceremony...look at how big their grins are. I have never seen two people happier to be married! They are adorable.

The whole wedding party

Cutting the LITTLE DEBBIE cake....seriously it was so cute and the groom did it!

Dancing with the groom.

Patton 1 and Friends - The girls from college (Tristan, me, Alder, Haylie & Kim).

We have a busy weekend ahead and then it is back to TN for my brother's graduation, another wedding and a early Christmas with my family. I hope that everyone is doing great and ready for Christmas....I sure am! :-)

Thanksgiving & More

John and I were in Nashville for the holiday. We left Tuesday evening and spent Thanksgiving with all my family.

Wednesday night was Tgiving dinner w/ my mom's family. We ate lots of yummy food and played Wii. My 5 year old cousin, Emma, was better than my mom! :-)

Megan, me, Emma & Sydney all in the same chair. Aren't we cute!

Thursday we spent w/ my dad's side of the family. There aren't many pics from there (except for the 20 I took of Eli). Sadly, John had to head back to St. Louis to be at work on Friday. However, I stayed behind to do some shopping!
The cutest little boy I know - Eli.

Friday was shopping (and my mom and I babysat my little cousin Lilly)- Saturday was shopping - and Sunday was shopping. We somehow managed to take Saturday night to eat at Wendy's and go see Fred Claus....good movie.

Here is Emma w/ Wendy hair

And Mandy and I shopping on Sunday!

So - now that that is out of the way. What about the football this weekend. Arkansas beats LSU in overtime, TN beats Kentucky in overtime to go to the SEC Championship game, and Mizzou beats Kansas to be #1 in the nation. What a great football weekend! Then Huston Nutt gets canned - or quit - or whatever you want to say. I love football!!!

Tristan's Wedding & a Hockey Game

The wedding was great...the bride was beautiful....and I took tons of pictures as expected. We were able to see several friends from the good ole UU.

The bride
Now w/ her groom

The wedding party

Me, Tristan & Bekah - Our ZTA family

w/ the bride :-)

The first dance

Zetas at the wedding

The bridesmaids (minus one) before they left for the honeymoon

Monday, John and I went to the Blues hockey game. I got free tickets from work in the club...so we got free food and drink. We had a good time.

The little kids played hockey between the 1st and 2nd periods. Too cute.

So, now we are in TN for Thanksgiving and getting ready to go celebrate w/ my mom's family. Hope everyone has a great Turkey day and gets lots of deals on Black Friday!! :-)

going to the chapel....

....well my sorority sis & lil sis Tristan is. I'm in the wedding so we are off work today and headed to Jackson, TN for the wedding festivities. There will be lots of pictures to come! Have a great weekend everyone!!!

My Team Won

Oh yeah!! That's right....Tennessee kicked the Razorbacks booties!!! It was wonderful, but that is all I will say as to not rub it in too much. :-)

Before the game - when we were both happy.

Yes - we were this close - seats were great!!!

Megan, Molly & me chillin' @ Molly's apartment on campus.

A House Divided

That's right everyone - this is the weekend one weekend that one of us will not want to speak the the other. Arkansas is playing Tennessee @ Tennessee. Great for me b/c I get to go to Neyland Stadium (the last time I was there this game went into 6 overtimes). So while all will be fun....one of us will be very disappointed. Lot of pics will come.

For now, I leave you with the following fall pictures from Forest Park this past weekend.