The last chapter of 2006

Happy New Year! Sorry for the lack of communication! I always update my blog on my lunch break, but i haven't had a chance lately because i've been trying to get my GST rebate for our house finished. It takes a long time...and i'm STILL not done. W/E! I'm taking a break and i'll tell you about our holidays. :)

We spend the 16th of Decemeber weekend up in Enderby for our Born family gathering. It was so much fun! But lots of driving on really bad roads. It took us 8 hours to get up there on Friday night! Anyways, it was a great time!

Here's a pic of the steep sledding hill at the camp in Enderby.

My cousin Jamie on the pretty trail :) (she's taken) ;)

On Dec 21nd Dan and I had a little Christmas Party. I had TONS of fun cooking and making everything look pretty. It was a great time! I love pic's of food :)

On Dec 22rd we had our Falk Family Christmas! Below are my Mom & Dad and their grandchildren :) We had Goose and Ham...it was delicious! I love Goose!

Here we are probably ending our Gift Exchange Game. NOTE: The girl on the left of the picture sitting on the piano bench is my cousin Jared's FIANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are SO excited for them! Shanna is so perfect for him! They are planning a late June wedding! :)

Christmas morning (Dec 23rd) at our house! :) One of the presents I bought dan was new racing gear, he loved it! :) We had so much fun opening presents on Christmas morning! He definatly spoiled me this year!!! Dan's making my breakfast while watching a movie on our new portable DVD player (for our many travels!)Ahh, Dec 25th! Christmas! We went up to the cabin this year with my family! It was SO much fun! We spent lots of time Snowmobiling, playing games, eating WAY too much food and sleding behind the ATV's. What a blessing to have a white Christmas! Below: Christmas dinner Janae and Rachel in their FVDG hoodies :)

Dan and Colleen snowmobiling - it was only like -5ish, so that was nice! Sometimes it gets to like -30 up there!

Hockey on the ice rink. We didn't feel like getting the skates out, so we played in our snow boots.

Rachel makinga snow angle - what a cutie!!!

As well as all this fun stuff...we had a wonderful Christmas with Dan's family on the 24th! They came to our house for brunch, and then we went to a gathering, to church and then opened presents and had appys. It was so much fun! At around 7:00 pm we headed out and made the trek to the cabin. Boy was that an adventure. The roads were closed because of avalanches, but we snuck through anyways and drove through avalanches that were covering the whole road. It was fun...at times...and kinda scary at others. But the important thing is, we did make it, we didn't die, and we shopuld proabbly just stay in the motel next time :)

Anways, hope all your holidays were as exciting and filled with lots of love, smiles, and great firends and family! You are all dear to our heart! Sorry about the spelling mistakes.

Love you all!

10 More Sleeps!...

...until Christmas! Ah, Christmas. It is such a wonderful time of year...but as we get older, it seems to get busier and busier! May the Reason for the Season bring peace to us all as we quickly approach Jesus Birthday!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Sugar Cookies

Happy Friday! I am very excited that it is Friday...even tho I will be working all weekend at my house...oh well. So last night Jaci came over and we baked and decorated sugar cookies! It was very much fun! As you can see below we made some dirtbike shaped sugar cookies for Dan and Matt (Matt is Jaci's BF) Unfortunatly, this is where the picture taking stopped and I didn't take any pictures of the finished products! Whoops...i'm still getting used to this whole picture happy idea. Anyways, good times, good laughs, good cookies :)


I decided to post a picture of my kitchen...I love my kitchen. The backsplash is getting done early next week, so I'll post another one when it is done. I am really enjoying my appliances and my 2 inch higher counter tops...and especially my granite...it's my dream kitchen!

And now for the newest news of the Duecks. We are selling our house. You can check it out at http://mlslink.mlxchange.com/Pub/EmailView.asp?r=237594338&s=BRC&t=BRC . We have had some new opporunities come up and we are seriously considering doing something new for a while. I'll let you all in on the secrecy of that sentence in the next few weeks. Anyways, we've already had a few showings and it only hit the MLS yesterday...so that's kinda crazy! We are excited for what comes next!

Other than that...not much new. Dan & I are enjoying Christmas festivities in our new house and are really just enjoying life! It's lots of fun! I hope you are all doing well...i really enjoying reading all your blogs and keeping up on your lives! Hopefully soon I'll have something fun and exciting to post :) Love you all!

More happy days...

Hi! Well we are well into December and the snow has actually stayed around for more than 1 day...both are quite shocking actually. I am very excited for Christmas! We got our Christmas tree yesterday! It's 12 feet tall :) ... and no, we didn't have to chop a hole in our roof, our ceilings are 20 feet tall in the living room :) I still have to go buy more decorations (since i only have enough for a 7 ft tree...so once i do i'll post a picture. We went to the Christmas Tree farm with most of my family...it was so much fun! Below is a picture of Uncle Dan with his 2 neices...they are too cute! They love throwing snowballs at Uncle Dan or wispering in my ear to throw a snowball at Uncle Den so he will come tackle me. They are so sneaky! SO much fun!
We have been pretty busy lately. Hunting season is finally over (i didn't mind it the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th trip...but by the 5th and 6th trip...i miss my husband! But it's good! It's lots of good quality manly bonding time (in -30 weather...doesn't sound very fun to me...but w/e). He shot a nice 4 point...so we have meat for another year. While Dan was hunting I got most of my Christmas shopping done, and some much needed catching up with friends.

Last night we went to Dan's parents for dinner and took some family pictures.


Well, other than that...we decided we weren't busy enough so we're going to build a garage :s Sometimes I wonder about our lives...we're crazy. But here is some other news...we are selling our house! It should be hitting the MLS by Thursday! We decided we aren't quite ready to settle down and start and little hobby farm...we want to do some travelling and and some other investing with our money. So yah...our house, built with our blood sweat and tears (lots of tears and sweat...not so much blood thankfully)...will become a memory. Oh my, i have to stop writing about that now...it makes me want to cry. I do have one guarantee...when we sell, i will cry for weeks...and i won't be able to drive past it for atleast 2 years. I'm so emotional that way!

ANYWAYS...happy thots...ummmmmm...Christmas Tree. Yah. I hope you are all doing well and enjoying your work Christmas parties and the packed out shopping malls...and worse probably the parking lots! Love ya!