january 2013: a month of new beginnings

A new job for me, a new job and city for Kyle... 2013 has brought lots of beautiful life changes and blessings!

January also brought snow

Which translated into lots of puppy snuggles :)

rose family reunion 2013: san antonio

We headed down to San Antonio for a Rose family reunion a few weekends ago. My cousin Tiffiny, her husband Beau and their two precious sons Caydon and Emmitt came over from Louisiana too! My parents came down from Austin and Kelsey from San Marcos and we all stayed at Mawmaw's house.

Tiffiny is a year older than me, so she Kelsey and I grew up together. I have many wonderful memories of playing Pretty Pretty Princess, hide and seek and dress up at Mawmaw and Pawpaw's house.

Now we're all grown up and have busy lives. It was so nice to take a weekend to spend some quality time together. Ryan and I got to meet sweet mister Emmitt for the first time, can't believe he is 3 months old already!

These boys absolutely love their Daddy! At least Caydon would play with me this year, last time we saw him he refused to play with me or let me hold him (I could only sucker him in with M&Ms). He is definitely a man's man.

It was so fun to have the whole family in one house together! After a relaxed Saturday morning, while Kelsey went to interview for a new job, which she got (congratulations Kels!!), we had a picnic and took the boys to the zoo!

Caydon was pretty worn out after all the roaring... clearly it was a good day at the zoo!

After we got the kiddos to sleep, we stayed up and played games. It was so wonderful to see the Perero family and spend time together! Love to you all, let's do it again soon!

bon voyage kyle

Kyle started with 3M and moved up to the great white north at the end of January. Obviously, we had to send him off in style with a post-it/Texas themed Bon Voyage party!

As the night went on, the dance moves came out...

even Kali got in on the dance party! 

A successful send off! We'll miss you Kyle! The Twin Cities aren't going to know what hit them.

 

Update: Ryan and I chat/text/skype with Kyle pretty frequently. It has been wonderful to hear about how he's settling into his new job and city. It's also been shocking to realize how much of America is white for a large part of the year... OMG! Turns out, for a lot of the country, snow isn't just something you go to see for a few days while skiing once a year. Who knew?!?!

Anyway, here are some of my favorite conversations we've had...

January 30:

February:

The "new guy" office decor

April 18:

Kyle: "Really?? It's almost May."

April 20:

Jamie:  "Missing you Uncle Kyle. Doing yard work today"

Kyle: "Let's work on mine next."

April 22:

Northern puppy, Bently.
(Kyle: "I love Murphy more, don't worry!!")

May 4:

Kyle: "Heat waaaaaave."

This guy always makes me smile. We are so proud of you little brother!