Augusta, Georgia

I'm sorry if some of these are repeats but there are a lot of new pictures here too.

Augusta is a beautiful city with lots of old homes downtown that I absolutely LOVED.

 

 

We spent a lot of time at the River Walk in Augusta...  We found this the first weekend in Augusta with Zach's parents.

 

 

 

Where I am standing taking the following picture is Augusta, Georgia...

This is across the Savannah River and it is South Carolina.

Then one weekend we discovered the Savannah River Rapids Park...

 

We spent several weekend with Zach's friend Joseph and his girlfriend (at the time, they are engaged now) Katie, she is such a sweet person!

 

My mom even visited with me one weekend and we went sight seeing of course...

We saw these four young men jumping off the dam.  Yes they all survived and no they didn't get arrested.

 

And they were even kind enough to take a picture of me and my mom...

We visited the Savannah River Rapids Park a lot because we LOVED it there...  So I have a TON of pictures of Zach like this...

And finally it was graduation day, a day we looked forward to for so long...

 

 

Good bye Fort Gordon!

Christmas with my Family

We celebrated Christmas with my family last night!  We had such a great time as we always do...  Here are just a few pictures...

We sent my dad on a little scavenger hunt to find his present this year!  We got him a guitar because that is what he wanted, he thought that after Christmas they were going to save and buy him one, little did he know that we had all pitched in and got it for him.

We got my mom some new cookware and we sent her on a little scavenger hunt too...  she only thought we were sending my dad on a wild goose chase!

Ava had a blast opening presents this year, she was so excited and couldn't wait until it was her turn.

My mom and dad got Ava a harmonica as one of her little gifts, here she is playing it with my dad playing his.

Ava was probably most excited about her digital camera that Nanny got her and she took pictures of everyone all night!

Below are just some random pictures that I took!

These pictures aren't from last night but I wanted to share them...  First are my Christmas decorations and our tree...

We also had a private photo session with Santa since Ava's first pictures didn't turn out good.  The photographer that took them did a horrible job so we placed a call to the North Pole and Santa came back down to visit Ava for another picture.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

My Mom

I was browsing through my pictures and found this awesome picture of my mom!

I absolutely love this picture of her!  I took this of her at the Savannah River Rapids Park in Augusta, Georgia.  She went with me over there to get Zach for Memorial Day...  we had the best time sight-seeing!

Happy Mother's Day!

Now, before you start leaving comments that say "Kristen, Mother's Day was like two weeks ago..." I realize that, but my mom's gift from me and Zach is a little weekend getaway... which is taking place this weekend!

Mom will be making the trip with me to Augusta on Friday and we plan to sight see and eat lunch and just hang out together until Zach gets out of class for the day and then eat dinner with him. Then we are going to spend the night there and pick Zach up on Saturday morning at 8:00. Then we are making the drive back to Birmingham!!!

We are both so excited to go and are even more excited that we will be bringing Zach home with us!!!

I am so excited about spending this weekend with Zach! We were so excited when they approved his pass to come home and everyone else is excited to see him too!!! I think he is most excited to see Gavin because he is six weeks old and he has not seen him yet! That will change on Saturday though... Uncle Zach will be a Gavin hog! And that is just fine by us!

I have one more full day to work this week and then I am off for five whole days with my huggy hubby!

You guys may not hear a lot from me while he is home but I am sure you understand!

Happy Wednesday!

Introduction...

Hi, I am Kristen...

My Huggy Hubby is Zach...

I am the twin sister to Karmen... who is married to Matt... and their daughter (my fabulous niece) is Ava!

I am the daughter to Jerry and Marie... and the daughter-in-law to Kathy and Larry...

I am the sister-in-law to Erika who is married to Lee and they have my fabulous nephew, Gavin... I am also the sister-in-law to Patrick who is engaged to Heather.

Why all the real names you ask??? Well the reason I started using nicknames was because my sister, Karmen used nicknames for her family and I didn't want to use their real names here and people go back to her blog where she tried to keep their real names secret! Well, she is coming back from a blogging hiatus and she has decided to start using real names and I am so glad because it was so hard for me to try to come up with nicknames for everyone (I mainly just used initials) and I had to triple check my posts to make sure no real names were used!

Thank you Karmen for switching back to real names, you just made my life a whole lot easier!!!