Christmas Letter

Hello Friends and Family

Christian and Kellie hope and pray that this letter finds everyone well and happy. This year has been crazy for us and both sets of parents.

Let's start at the beginning of the year. Kellie spent the week of New Year's in Colorado (oh how beautiful the mountains are with sow on them) with Christian and his parents. Diamond came out with Kellie and she was like what's that cold wet white stuff falling from the sky? She was okay with the drive up but hated the flight back to Oklahoma, she couldn't ride in Kellie's (momma's) lap on the flight.

At the end of January Kellie got a phone call from the place were were getting married at, and there was a schedling conflict and we couldn't get married on March 7. It was a mad scramble to get new invitations made and sent out in time for everyone to make arrangements.

Christian flew in the week before the wedding to help finish up with last-minute prep for the wedding. After the wedding Christian and Kellie went to Walt Disney World for our honeymoon. It was Kellie's first time. While we were there in Florida, we went to Cape Canaveral for a night-time rocket launch (also Kellie's first time). We were about 4 miles from the launch site and had VIP tickets, Christian got them from work for free. Christian works for the University of Colorado at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). He's a rocket engineer and while he didn't work directly with this rocket, his lab did.

Kellie isn't much of a Roller Coaster girl but Christian got her on a few. However, it cost him a stuffed animal per ride, so we came back with about a dozen new stuffed animals. Christian was warned by Kellie's parents and was given the advice not to let her bring back any. As you can see, that warning didn't do Christian any good. Florida was a good trip even though Kellie found out that she is allergic to Florida.

After the honeymoon we flew back to Oklahoma to get Kellie's stuff and then on March 24, we started the drive to Colorado. We stayed that night somewhere near the Kansas-Colorado border. On March 25 around 4pm Colorado Time, Kellie got a tornado warning for her old home town of Moore, OK, saying there was a tornado on the ground. Kellie looked over ath Christian saying "we left at the right time".

On March 28 we had another wedding reception in Colorado. We did this so that the people Christian works with and goes to church with didn't need to take time off or to worry about traveling to Oklahoma. We knew that his parents and grandma were coming in from Utah, but we had no clue that Kellie's parents would come up, so Kellie was surprised when her parents stepped out of the kitchen. Christian's mom knew that they would make the trip up to Nebraska on friday and spent the night at one of her aunt's house so they were able to meet up on I-25 in Colorado and her parents followed Christian's parents to the house.

After the craziness settled down in about mid-april our sister-in-law asked Kellie to be a Mary Kay consultant so we signed the paperwork and ordered inventory. In July Kellie made her first business trip to Dallas, TX