Well, a lot has happened this year. Trying to think back on everything would be crazy, but I will try to remember some. We adopted a new puppy that we named Oreo so we now own 2 doggies. Nate attended Airborne school and organized the German Badge for Knox. We made our first big purchase as a couple, our new Nissian Rouge. Nate and I moved to Hawaii, we celebrated 2 years of marriage and we also celebrated our 3rd Christmas together. I turned 25 yrs. young. We suffered a great loss with the death of Nate's step-dad Tim. We have made a lot of great friends here in Hawaii. I have become the FRG Leader, something I thought I would never do. I also have joined 2 coffee groups, which are so much fun and a great way to meet new people and have become the Treasurer of one.
There are so many changes coming for 2011. Nate will be deployed to Afghanistan for 12 months. I will continue to be the FRG Leader. Nate's mom is coming to visit in Feb. and my family is coming in June. We are looking forward to spending time with everyone. My family will come after Nate leaves, so that will give me something to look forward to. Besides that who knows. We have a couple things up our sleeves for the next year! I hope you all have an AMAZING New Year!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Christmas Update!
Oh goodness where to start? We have been quite the busy elves this season. We just wrapped up our pictures with Santa Fundraiser. We raised a grand total of over $2400 for the soldiers and their families. My FRG will get half of that. Not too bad for a couple days of work.
Nate and I are hosting Christmas dinner. We have a big menu so I will be up cooking bright and early tomorrow. I am so excited to host my first Christmas Dinner.
Tonight (Christmas Eve) we are watching a bunch of Christmas movies and eating a big "breakfast dinner". I made all my sweets to hand out to the neighbors last night so that is all done.
The Battalion Christmas party went amazing. We had a lot of fun as did everyone else. I will have to post pics on the next update. We have recieved a lot of amazing christmas presents again I will have to show pics later.
We finally finished our Christmas letters and got those out. to the friends and family.
Well, that is all for now from the Balough clan. We wish you a very Merry Chirstmas!
Nate and I are hosting Christmas dinner. We have a big menu so I will be up cooking bright and early tomorrow. I am so excited to host my first Christmas Dinner.
Tonight (Christmas Eve) we are watching a bunch of Christmas movies and eating a big "breakfast dinner". I made all my sweets to hand out to the neighbors last night so that is all done.
The Battalion Christmas party went amazing. We had a lot of fun as did everyone else. I will have to post pics on the next update. We have recieved a lot of amazing christmas presents again I will have to show pics later.
We finally finished our Christmas letters and got those out. to the friends and family.
Well, that is all for now from the Balough clan. We wish you a very Merry Chirstmas!
Friday, December 3, 2010
Christmas time is here ;)
Well, not too much to catch up on...
Things seem to be in full swing with my new position as FRG leader of Nate's company. I seem to have a meeting every time I turn around. We have an FRG Christmas Party coming up so that will be exciting. I have a FRG "Bootcamp" I have to go to this weekend, but one of my friends is going to so it hopefully won't be too boring, afterward we are going to go see Harry Potter.
Nate and I are planning to have a party Christmas Eve and invite the neighbors. I need to send out invites soon. He just went on a staff ride the other night so I was able to make dinner for my friend/neighbor and her daughter. I love having people over, but often get scared that they won't like what I cook, but all went well and the food was so good. Nate and I have decided to wait to celebrate our anniversary until March/April. We are going to wait and do it right before he deploys. We are just going to go out to dinner and maybe the water park on our actual anniversary. Nate surprised me with an early Birthday/Anniversary present yesterday. I needed a new phone and I was just going to wait until closer to my bday to get it. Nate said we had to make a stop on our way to Bed, Bath and Beyond. He stopped buy at&t and said we are getting your phone now ;). I am officially on the "dark side" now. I LOVE my Iphone 4. Nate will get his when he gets back from deployment, but for now I let him play with mine.
We are working on our Christmas letters. It is a tradition in Nate's family to send out a Christmas letter, so we are adopting it especially since we have a lot to update here from Hawaii. Nate's Dad sent us our Christmas present early. It is amazing! It's a Balough family cookbook. He put it together with all these amazing family recipes and cooking tips. I am so excited to get to use it and add to it. We still have to go out and get Christmas presents. Our moms are both covered and normally they are the hardest so that makes it easier on us. I still want to get Nate a few more little things since he got his big gift already (surf board). We have all of our decorations up and it feels a little more like the holidays, which helps when it is in the 70's outside.
Well, that is about it for now I feel like I am forgetting some stuff. Nate leaves soon for NTC so that will be coming up. I hope you all are doing well.
Pictures:
Things seem to be in full swing with my new position as FRG leader of Nate's company. I seem to have a meeting every time I turn around. We have an FRG Christmas Party coming up so that will be exciting. I have a FRG "Bootcamp" I have to go to this weekend, but one of my friends is going to so it hopefully won't be too boring, afterward we are going to go see Harry Potter.
Nate and I are planning to have a party Christmas Eve and invite the neighbors. I need to send out invites soon. He just went on a staff ride the other night so I was able to make dinner for my friend/neighbor and her daughter. I love having people over, but often get scared that they won't like what I cook, but all went well and the food was so good. Nate and I have decided to wait to celebrate our anniversary until March/April. We are going to wait and do it right before he deploys. We are just going to go out to dinner and maybe the water park on our actual anniversary. Nate surprised me with an early Birthday/Anniversary present yesterday. I needed a new phone and I was just going to wait until closer to my bday to get it. Nate said we had to make a stop on our way to Bed, Bath and Beyond. He stopped buy at&t and said we are getting your phone now ;). I am officially on the "dark side" now. I LOVE my Iphone 4. Nate will get his when he gets back from deployment, but for now I let him play with mine.
We are working on our Christmas letters. It is a tradition in Nate's family to send out a Christmas letter, so we are adopting it especially since we have a lot to update here from Hawaii. Nate's Dad sent us our Christmas present early. It is amazing! It's a Balough family cookbook. He put it together with all these amazing family recipes and cooking tips. I am so excited to get to use it and add to it. We still have to go out and get Christmas presents. Our moms are both covered and normally they are the hardest so that makes it easier on us. I still want to get Nate a few more little things since he got his big gift already (surf board). We have all of our decorations up and it feels a little more like the holidays, which helps when it is in the 70's outside.
Well, that is about it for now I feel like I am forgetting some stuff. Nate leaves soon for NTC so that will be coming up. I hope you all are doing well.
Pictures:
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| Me hugging the tree :) |
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| Nate hugging the tree |
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| Our Tree |
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| Nate on the roof putting up Christmas lights |
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| Our walkway |
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| Our wreath...I need to fix the H ;) |
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| Walkway again |
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| Garland |
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| Flag |
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| Stake thing |
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| Front door. |
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