It is Upon Us

Yes, it is upon us once again. It seems as though we were just watching the final race of the season, and yet suddenly here it is again! Nascar is back, and of course we have to kick off the season with our annual Daytona 500 party :) I may not like Nascar that much, but I do like to see my husband acting like a little kid and kicking his feet in excitement! It's pretty entertaining. For those of you close enough to attend the party, I think we're planning a 3pm start time, as the race starts at 3:30pm. Of course, we will be watching the several hours of pre-race shows before that, so if you want to come over early, you are more than welcome! Let's hope that all of our husband's favorite drivers do well so that no one has to go home cranky!

I Found Them!

For the last two years, I have been trying to find some pictures that were taken at our 5k race in 2005. I thought that they were gone forever, but last night I stumbled upon them on an old computer we never use anymore! I was so excited to find not only our running pictures, but also some at a Tigers game with friends and family. Yey for recovered pictures!

Brad finishing the race...I finished it too, but not until a while later! But at least I finished!

More Pictures!

Just a few pictures I haven't posted yet...nothing new really going on here :)

Our Hunt family picture from Family Day last year

More cute Abigail pictures!

I am totally taken by this little one....

Introducing...

Abigail Elizabeth Hunt!

Proud papa Chuck

So sweet!

I have more pictures on my camera and will try to post them soon. Isn't she adorable?

Welcome Abigail Elizabeth!

An update is certainly long overdue! Lots of things happened over Christmas, we had tons of fun times with family and friends...but our most exciting news just happened this weekend, as our new neice, Abigail Elizabeth, arrived on Sunday morning! Brad's brother, Chuck, and his wife, Karen, are now proud parents of a beautiful baby girl. We all would have bet money that she was going to have a boy, but...there you have it! Abigail is the sweetest little thing with a teeny tiny nose, but she sure gave her mom a rough time on the way out! Poor Karen was in labor for so long...they induced her Friday at 6am and she gave birth SUNDAY MORNING at 6am! She is a real trooper! Abby weighed 8lbs 11oz and was 22 in. long. Thankfully, mom and baby (and dad!) are doing well and are now home. I will hopefully post some pictures of the little one soon.

Christmas Pics

These are a little overdue, but I figure we're still in the Christmas season so I can still put them up! Here are some pictures from our Christmas tree expidition a couple of weeks ago. We had a day with nothing planned, so we drove to the same place we bought our last real Christmas tree. Brad didn't really want to cut down one, he wanted to pick a pre-cut tree...but he's sweet and knew that I wanted to cut it down like my family always does, so out we went to cut one down. He actually really enjoyed it once we were out there, and we found a beautiful tree to take home with us. It was a lot of fun and a great memory :)

The tree took the place of Sadie's bench which she sits on to look out the window. Lately she has been a bit stir crazy because she can't look outside. So Brad lets her sit on his lap and look out. It's really funny!

I have been really struck this year by how unimportant all of this traditional Christmas stuff really is...I mean, I enjoy the tree and the presents and the music, but this year I have just been thinking a lot about the real story of Christmas, and how amazing it is that God sent His Son, Jesus, to earth for us. All the other stuff is just frills...so my prayer this Christmas is that I would keep my eyes fixed on Jesus, and remember that He really IS the reason we celebrate.

Merry Christmas!