First Family Christmas with the Kinders

Today, Dave and I had my parents, sister and her boyfriend over for a wonderful day of fun. We hosted the dinner with burger, sausages, and potato salad. Everyone had a good time and the day is almost over. Dave and I leave for New York early tomorrow morning and I am very excited. Dave gave me a the dream gift of a KitchenAid RED stand mixer and I got him a Notre Dame golf bag-

We also hosted our first Christmas party on Thursday night .. that went really well. I was nervous but I always get that way. Dave helped me a lot and it was a wonderful night...

Merry Christmas to all... and to all a good night.

Done with Marriage Prep!!!

We spent a long, but interesting day Saturday in Charlotte at Pre-Cana or marriage preparation workshop by the Church. It was NOT nearly as bad as we feared... and actually had a decent time.

Later on that night we picked up Donald, had some dinner and then we went to see the McAdenville Christmas lights. Once again, I am so amazed at the patience of my Dave... he's wonderful beyond words as he did that for me with very little complaining even though he was not feeling that great. This is a picture of the lake in McAdenville to the left...

Sunday, our engagement announcement was in the paper (here's a link: http://www.shelbystar.com/articles/kinder_27344___article.html/late_minnich.html)
and it was also my parents' 42nd anniversary. My sister and I (with significant others) took them to eat at Steak and Ale. We had good time and spent a nice half day with them.

Now we look forward to our last week at work before Christmas break!!!

First Wedding Gift

I forgot to mention that we got our first wedding presen this week-- from Steve and Beverly Moffitt! We receive four dinner plates and four salad plates. We are so excited to have been blessed with such a gift...

Updates!!

Well, not that many really, but a little to share. The engagement announcement is to be in our local paper this Sunday and I am excited about that finally happening. I need to get all the information together for the paper in New York. We'll handle that during the holidays while we are there.

We put in our order for tuxedos this week... oh what fun!!! I took Dave with me as I figure he needed to pick it out... he did his part and now we have a tux order in.

We have our day long marriage preparation class on Saturday and we have to take a test so that should be tons of fun!!!

I will add more news later after the class and post a link to the engagement announcement.

Another Sunday...

Oh man, what a busy busy week. Dave and I both had several things to do after work that limited out time together. Meetings and dinners out ruled the week. What a way to end November!!

We registered for more things yesterday at Belk, Wal Mart and Sears so we have a good list of things we wouldn't mind receiving. I hate to say that because it sounds like we are just wanting stuff- and that's not the case. Most of the time we look at each other and say "do we?".... But we feel like we have done well... although I have decided to register for some more cookware after using my skillet this morning...

We have only 3 more weeks until Christmas break and we are both ready. We will be hosting my school's party with other friends attending on the night we finally are free- Dec. 20th... Our first date anniversary is the 19th so I am excited about that one too...

Going to see if we can get appointments for the bridesmain dress situation this week... hopefully all this can be worked out soon!!

Sunday's been good.. Dave and Don went to the Panthers game today .. and that Panthers won!!