This post is dedicated to Brandon... thanks for pointing out how annoying it is to click on my "blog." This is more recent than the previous posts but it's still a few months old... I will take some pics on Valentines Day!
This was Halloween gotta love all the creative costumes... Mike and I decided to be vampires the year before, so it really wasn't a Twilight Saga rip off although I am a big fan!




Mike and I went fishing on the boat with my family. Of course I caught the most fish but Mike get's the creativity award he caught a sting ray, my closest crazy catch was a shark.

Out to dinner and on a starlight dinner cruise for my work

We went to an Ice show it was 8 degrees inside or something crazy they gave us these huge jackets to wear which was needed. It really wasn't worth the price because it was small inside but the sculptures were really awesome!



A few pics from our cruise with Kempton and Jenny and Laura and Brandon. We had a fun vacation with them... makes me want to go again anyone up for it? By the way this is where Brandon almost killed Laura and all of us by driving on the wrong side of the road... motorcycles are dangerous, don't try this at home :)

New Years and my birthday!!

So as someone pointed it out recently, I've realized that I am not the best blogger in the world... to be honest I really don't have much time. But none the less this is my attempt at catching up being how Nancy's shower is on Friday and I am sure everyone will want to see the pics :) So in order to get caught up here is the pics from New Year's and my birthday! This was my birthday... Mike and I both took the day off and went to the aquarium, the movies, and then went to eat at Bern's Steakhouse! (one of our favorite places!) Then the next day we spent at Wonder Works which is a really awesome place, if you've never been you should check it out!

Mike fulfilling his life long dream of being and astronaut!The Aquarium!

In the outside area!

Mike giving me birthday flowers!

We had a really fun New Years' with Kempton and Jenny, and Kendra and Tyson... although the food was terrible! After eating we went back and talked and played games while watching the ball drop!

Christmas and Court's Shower!!!

Our Christmas!! This is our tree with all our presents under it well most of them.Christmas at grandmas this was the last year at her house so we did our Christmas hat traditional picture!

Mike and I at my grandparents house!

My aunt takes our whole family to Magianos Italian Restaurant and so we took some pictures of a portion of my huge family ... great food!!

Just the cousins!

Just the women on my dad's side of the family

Court's Shower!! We love her! I didn't get a lot of pictures but it was a really nice shower and here is part of our awesome friend group LOL!

Court, Lulu and Me

Last but not least... Court opening up some presents!

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Lu's wedding!! Laura and Brandon got married in the Orlando Temple and it was really a beautiful wedding! The next day their reception was on a really pretty beach with a tent as we watched the sun go down... we all really enjoyed it! Not to mention that Laura looked very hot, that also could be because I did her hair and Make up I will have to go back in though and add a before picture because if you haven't seen Laura's beautiful silky hair before you wouldn't understand what work it is to get it to hold curl at all:) This is our practice hair and make up!

All the bridesmaids!!Laura and Brandon outside of the Temple isn't her dress beautiful!

A really cute girls picture!!Blast from the past.. some of our old group Olive, Mary, Me, Court and Nance. Two of which are very prego it looks good on Court and Nance though!Mike and I on the way to the reception!Of course you have to get a cake picture, I love Laura's expression!
Mike plaing with Caydon on the beach!

OUR TRIP TO WISCO...

We decided to go to Barry and Malia's second reception in Plain, Wisconsin, that's where Malia is from. It was filled with lots of exciting things to do and see but as you can see in the first picture "Population 792," to give you an idea it was definitely a small town atmosphere. So we are walking two seconds away to the cheese factory when two strangers walk up and say oh you must be with the Ruhland's are you Barry's family? How weird!! That was just to give you an idea of how small this town was. But aside from the size we had an awesome time!

This is us freezing to death bc it was 20 degrees with snow flurries and here is my brother wearing shorts and a t-shirt!

A bonfire helped keep us warm.. this was the night we stayed at Malia's sister's house. They had an amazing home with a tennis court and basically everything bc they lived on a farm and lived off the land!

They had there reception in the town hall.

For these next pictures all I can say is welcome to Straka meats! I thought I was getting a tour of a meat place kinda like if you take the tour at Berns, you get to see how the meat is prepared. Well, I was wrong and this is what we got to see instead. (IF YOU GET GROSSED OUT EASILY I SUGGEST YOU SKIP THIS PART.)
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And while we were leaving decided to take a mini photo op and here is how they came out!

Here is our Halloween pics finally but since I didn't remember my camera these were borrowed and i'm still waiting on some of the ones that were more interesting... To tell you about our co-hosted party with Kempton and Jenny we started out the night with good food and games (a murder mystery) and ended it with swimming in the pool (that Kempton colored blood red)and watching a scary movie. We had a blast!! I want to give a shout out to Laura and Brandon who stayed in costume the entire time with their redneck accents, Courtney and Nate bc I love Harry Potter, and it's hard to top Sam's farting machine which added more humor to his already humorous costume!

Barry and Malia's wedding (my bro and new sis)

My brother and new sister in law just tied the knot!
The wedding and reception were a blast we stayed at the Don so late!

Here is thier "on the way to Malta/Rome for their honeymoon" picture :)

Cutting the cake and their first drink together

My immediate family

Just us four brothers and sisters

My mom and dad are with us

Mike and I waiting to go take picturesAt the rehearsal dinner all the sisters get together!

Their practice dance

Mike and I at the rehearsal dinner

The rehearsal