Good Riddance 2009...

and Hello, 2010!

I can honestly say I have never been so happy for a new year to come about. I am ready for a great year. Do you hear me 2010? Seriously!

Yes, of course, there were some great things about 2009...
- 2 fantastic weddings between 4 great friends, Carly & Matt and Phil & Alicia, including an awesome road trip through the northern plains
- a Barrett family reunion in Breckenridge
- the newest addition to our little family, Kafka, our dog
- being able to spend the holidays with the entire Kemm family for the 1st time in 5 years
- 2 amazing babies joined our lives Daphne Bingham (Jan. 2nd, 2009) and Aiden Aerts(Dec. 31, 2008 @ 10:30pm, so basically 2009)
- my dad moved to Portland which is such a wonderful place to visit
- celebrating our first wedding anniversary!
- I finished 4 quilts this year! I also started cross-stitching which is smaller to travel with than a queen sized quilt!

I have decided to spare you our list of terrible 2009 happenings for the umpteenth time. Be grateful! There are even a few (very few) good things that came out of the bad...
- lower car insurance (from having only one car)
- new movies, comforter, cameras
- adding our doggie as an extra security measure
- life lessons, which we will never forget

In the first week alone, I have been in a splendid mood! I think I am making my self happy just thinking about the new year and all to come. There are still plenty of things that are going to happen which I am totally unsure about, but I will try to take it in stride from now on.

Not a whole lot has happened this year in the first 12 days, but so far so good. I did have horrible delays on a Puerto Vallarta turn (that's why I don't work Mexico). I also went hiking with my pops in Portland to 3 different waterfalls. I have seen Avatar (pretty good) and I'm seeing Nine today. We have deep-fried 3 meals with our new deep fryer, so we are starting out really healthy.

I want to thank everyone out there for your kindness and support in 2009. We have such wonderful friends and family and we may not have survived without you. Even just kind words meant the world to us. I apologize for being quite the sad-sack this year, but hopefully it's over and you will see a happier couple of Rodriguez's this year! And if you ever have any kind of troubles we will be there for you, because we know how important it is to have the support. Thanks again!

Here's to the best year ever...
Cheers!!!

our one year anniversary present...

I haven't been in the posting mood lately and it's been a very long time!

I wrote all the details of our burglary on a very long and very detailed post, and never posted it. I think I was venting or releasing our bad kharma into the universe. I thought anyone who read it would think "those poor kids" or "my god, I hope that never happens to me" or even "oh that happened to me." But I finally realized that it just seemed sad and depressing.

So I am not upset, anxious, depressed or stressed now, so here I go...

One year ago today we purchased our very first home! Our first year in our home was stressful, hard, and completely perfect and wonderful.

It's hard to believe what has happened to us in a year... New car, marriage, garage flood, burglary, grown-up-furniture, and our newest adventure is a DOG!! He is our house gift to ourselves!!!

Kafka is actually a guard dog for us but we are in love! He is a 5 year old German Shepard/Australian Shepard mix that we got at the Denver Dumb Friends League last week. He plays fetch, sits, drools, loves walk and car rides.

This is Tony and I loving our beautiful yard and happy anniversary at our house!!!

We spent the day with Matt, Carly, Elena and Shannon at the Rockies/Diamondbacks game getting sunburned and sweating. After naps, we rolled in the grass, ate pizza, and took Kafka for a walk.

Now time for bed in our very own house. Life is good again!

birthday boy!!!

Oh I have a little birthday boy, and his name is General Tokyo Rodriguez!! He is my favorite little guy even if he is crazy and a jerk. He is 3 today along with his sisters, owned by my aunt and her friends.

Shout out to the GENERAL... holla!