Breckenridge, Colorado

Over Christmas break a group of friends and I drove 15 hours to Breckenridge, Colorado. We had a lot of fun and the snow was really great!

At a gas station...not in Texas!



This is in the town area. It's a cute little outdoor fire!

Aubrey and I saw a dog that looked just like Rylee

The snow on the slopes were perfect!

This fox would come up to our patio every night looking for food!

 

On the Gondola

 




Aubrey got hurt and we rode this down! haha

He's back!

 

View I had from the couch!

View from the girls' bedroom

New Years 2011-2012

I spent this New Year in Denton at Public House! Chance was working tonight so me and some girlfriends went to see all of our friends.

I hope everyone had an amazing and safe New Years! This will be an amazing year I can already tell.

Going to the Property

Chance and I went down to my families ranch to celebrate his birthday!

Chance and my Uncle Mike went hunting and shot a hog.

Rylee loves Chance!




















Chance bought Rylee a camo collar and I put a glow stick on her so I could see her running around in the dark!

Mom and Daisy

 Chance making the fire better for us

We did fireworks to celebrate New Years! Unfortunately, they really scared Rylee. She ran away and we looked every where for her. I was so scared something had happened, but she came back after the noises finally stopped. I have no idea where she was hiding...

She was so tired from running around all day that she fell asleep in his hand!

The next morning Chance and I went out and sat in the deer blind but unfortunately didn't see a single thing!




















Rylee gets so excited when we start packing up. She jumped in the truck so we would be sure not to forget her! She is driving us home ;)

Happy Birthday Chance

Happy Birthday Chance!
I hope you had fun down at my property hunting and doing "guy things".
You are amazing, smart, funny, sweet, attractive...my list could go on forever! I am a very lucky girl to have someone like you in my life. I hope you had a great birthday and I can't wait for your next one! XOXO

For his birthday I took him to a Mav's game. We had so much fun and ended up running into his boss Byron and we hung out in their suite.

















This was where we were sitting before moving to the suite...nosebleeds!

















A picture we had ordered finally came in and now sits on the side table.

Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was very exciting.

This is the tree in my apartment. Thank you Chance for helping me put it up!




















My new ornaments (Thank you Mom!)

 






On the night before Christmas Eve, my Mom's side of the family came over and my boyfriend Chance came over as well to meet everyone for the very first time! I was very nervous but at the same time very excited. My family is a lot to take in, we are very loud, but it's great! He really liked my family and my family loved him as well, so that was super exciting for me. We ate dinner and opened gifts (even had some gag gifts in there for the kids. The gag gift idea is from Jimmy Kimmel's I gave my child a bad present video, go watch it. It's beyond funny.)

Dining Room

Downstairs Tree

Our memory tree and a table set up for the boys

 

An ornament on the tree from when we went night tubing in Winterpark, Colorado!




















Mine and Chance's first Christmas picture together by the upstairs tree!




















Outside by the campfire

Ronnie, Aunt Melanie, Stacey, Jason, Mandy, Chance and I














 





















We even played charades!

Rylee and I on Christmas Eve




















On Christmas Eve morning, Stacey, my mom and I prepared for my Dad's side of the family to come over. This day is a little less stressfull because there are only 16 people instead of 32 like on  my mom's side. The Shurtleff's ate dinner and opened presents. We read "Twas' the Night Before Christmas" like we always do and set out milk and cookies for Santa.

Jaxon and I

Jax and my dad Pops





























Jax and Uncle Nate














Jax tearing into the gifts




















Kyler loves his new hat














 Ethan cheesin'














Ronnie, Mom, Dad, Me, Chris, Mimi, Uncle Mike, Aunt Carolyn, Jason, Granddad, Rylee and Justice!














Cousin picture
Well sibling and one cousin picture (I only have one cousin on this side of the family)
Nate, Stacey, Mandy, Me and Chris














Jason, Stacey, Jax, Dad, Nate, Mom, Mandy, Ethan, Me, Kyler and Ronnie

Sunday morning we woke up very early for two reasons. #1-We have a baby in the house now so we are all on Jaxon's schedule! #2- Stacey and Jason had to celebrate Christmas with us and then drive down to College Station to celebrate Christmas with Jason's family. We all opened our presents and played around with the goodies that Santa brought us. Then we ate our traditional breakfast casserole and sausage balls while drinking mimosas. After everyone slowly left my parents house I packed up my car with all my presents and Rylee and I made the drive to Denison to see Chance and meet his parents (he is an only child, so no siblings).

I thought this was really funny. After breakfast this is what I saw in the living room:




























































And then a few minutes later I got upstairs and saw this






















At Chance's parents house we only took this one picture

When it got dark we drove around Loy Lake Park to see the lights

 

After the lights we went to a local bar and I met his best friend Luke and his girlfriend Haley. At the bar Chance engraved our initials into a table :)