When Life (or your Aunt) Gives You Lemons...

You eat them of course! And entertain your mommy, daddy, and aunt with your occasional kinda-close-one-eye-because-oh-my-gosh-this-is-sour faces!

Little Miss Ashlynn was needing entertainment while Kristen, Keathen, and I had lunch at PF Changs on Saturday so I decided that she could play with the lemon wedges that came with my iced tea. I squeezed a little bit of the juice on my finger and let her taste it and then I brought the lemon wedge close to her mouth and she opened right up. Before long she was holding and chewing on the lemons by herself and we got to finish our lunch while getting some good laughs at her faces. She really seemed to like the lemons- she only did the sour face a couple of times!

2008 in Pictures

I figured that it would be a fun idea to wrap up this past year with some pictures of the highlights!

In April, Steve and I went to our favorite place for a long weekend... the Smokies! We had a nice weekend away and were able to make some additional arrangements for our wedding.

We stopped at Maker's Mark Whisky distillery on the way home and got to dip our own bottles of whisky.

Shortly before baby Ashlynn made her grand entrance into this world we had Kristen's baby shower...

And on May 25, 2008 Ashlynn Rae arrived! We have had such fun this year watching her grow and learn new things so quickly!

Now that the baby was here, the attention turned to our wedding that was fast approaching! In June and July we had three showers thanks to our generous family, friends, and co-workers!

And finally on August 11th, I became Mrs. Carrie Bruns! Every day that goes by, I am more and more in love with Steve and see how perfect we are for eachother!

In October, we decided to take a long weekend and head up to the Mackinaw Island area and check out some of the fall colors. Lucky us, we picked the perfect weekend and got to see the colors at their peak!

Freezin our butts off on the ferry over to Mackinaw Island!

And as if we hadn't had enough fun this year, Steve took me to Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana on my birthday. It was really neat to tour a dairy farm and get to see two calves born on my birthday!

The "Dairy-Go-Round" where the cows come to get milked.

Brand new baby calf- so cute!

Hope you enjoyed my quick little look back at this past year. I'm looking forward to 2009 and hope that it's even better than 2008!

Make sure to read below to see pictures of Ashlynn's 1st Christmas!

Ashlynn's 1st Christmas

We finally got to be able to celebrate Christmas with my family this past Tuesday. Here's a few pictures of the person who walked away with the biggest pile :) We definitely DO NOT spoil her!

Lots of presents...

What do you want Aunt Carrie???

Very busy with the FUN tissue paper...

Peek a boo!

Such a happy girl! You would be too if you got the haul that she did!

Christmas!!!

Seriously, I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!! I love that as I'm driving around these days I see more and more Christmas decorations every day... I've even pulled out my collection of Christmas CD's and was listening to them at work today (quietly though because people will think that I'm nuts).

So, I saw Meg's new layout and had to go check out where she got hers and fell in love with one myself (thanks for the inspiration Meg!). I cannot wait until we get our first good snow- yeah!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hoping to win...

A new blog layout!

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Wedding Pictures!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the wedding. I posted them all on Facebook if you want to see more (hint, hint Stephanie).

They're Here!!!

Well, actually not here with me at work, but I've been told by my wonderful husband that the professional wedding pictures arrived in the mail today!!! I seriously don't know if I can handle the 3+ hour wait that I now have until I can see them... Check back soon because I'm sure that I'll be posting some of our favorites soon!!!!!!