Skiing in New Hampshire

We are in New Hampshire! Along with the fabulous Sauls, we decided to take advantage of this long weekend and go skiing. The weather was perfect and we had an amazing time.

Working on turning

Walking in a winter wonderland

The weather man said that a storm was coming but by how clear it was yesterday, you would never guess. This morning we woke up, looked out the window and lo and behold...SNOW! Its been snowing pretty steady this whole morning. Having experienced snow only a handful of times in my life, I am loving it. My sweet husband...well he's a bit less excited. I think it must be because he spends most of his days outside. He is extremely excited to break out his skis this year however!

View from our front porch
Our street
View from our guest room window

Time to look around!

Today was such a beautiful day here in Newport. The sun was out, there was not a cloud in the sky and it was a 'balmy' 40 degrees! We decided to take advantage of the weather and do some of the more 'touristy' things here in Newport. Unfortunately we didn't do any research beforehand and sadly most of the places we attempted to visit were closed. Oh well, there is still plenty of time. We did however have a great time driving by all the mansions and along the coast. This place is AMAZING!

Standing outside Fort Adams, sadly is was closed. :(

Happy New Years!

Todd and I along with our dear friends (and fellow newlyweds), Jp and Jennifer, decided that we needed to do something special to ring in 2008, so we packed our bags and headed to...Boston! We stayed at a very quaint hotel in the middle of the city that was reserved for only seafaring people (gotta love the Marine perks!). We then made our way to the club. We danced, drank Champagne and had an amazing time!

Pre-celebration dinner in Boston

The lovely Sauls

The girls all dressed up

The handsome boys

Happy New Years!

And its back to work....

The vacation is over and its time to check in. Todd got up this morning, put on his Alphas and headed out to check into his new duty station. I had to take a picture because honestly, how handsome can you get?

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas! It was hard to keep Todd's hands off the gifts til Christmas morning (if you left the room for a moment he would start shaking things) but he made it and we had a great time opening gifts! We didn't get a white christmas but the sun came out for the first time this week and it was a beautiful day! Thank you so much to our families, we can't believe how spoiled we are! We missed you all so much today!

We made a bit of a mess

hmm, what should I bake?

lookin' good honey

Showing off my new jacket

My Ironman: now he can train indoors when it snows

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

One of the things that I was most worried about was that we would be moving over Christmas. With it being our first Christmas as a married couple and Todd's first Christmas home in 2 years, we really wanted to make it special. Todd promised that wherever we were on Christmas that we would have a tree and celebrate properly and he made sure that it happened. We even packed all our ornaments in our car just in case. It could not have worked out more perfectly, we were able to unpack our whole house and then run out to start decorating for the holidays, you could not even tell that we'd been here less than a week.

Merry Christmas!

Our tree

Our stockings

Our wreath, not sure why this was such a priority but it went up even before our furniture came. You can see the boxes in the background.