Sunday, December 20, 2009

Good friends...good times...

White Elephant Extravaganza...

Although I do not have any photos documenting our time together, our small group's white elephant extravaganza took place on Saturday night. After the Christmas service at church, we all headed to the Brennan's house for Monical's, a gift exchange, and fun, fun, fun!
Russ and I walked away with The Office trivia game and a golf ball set. Other items received were toilet paper, mouse droppings, and Russ' contribution, a calendar entitled 'Goats in Trees.' Apparently goats climb, and this calendar is a tribute to our climbing friends, each month portraying a new tree with multiple goats in, on, and around the tree. I personally wanted to take that gift home, but I couldn't pass up The Office game. I guess I could always buy myself a 'Goats in Trees' calendar.
Anyway, we had a great time with many laughs!

The Annual Christmas Get-together...

On Sunday I got together with Rebecca, Steffany, and JMarch Gillespie for our annual Christmas gift exchange. I set the camera on the table to make sure that pictures would be taken. We had a good ole time catching up, and we hopefully will continue this longstanding tradition...hooray Bible study girls from...TEN YEARS AGO. Yikes. We miss Karen!

Steffany and Rebecca...


Annie and JMarch...


Apparently we thought the wall behind us was more important than standing up for the picture...


Oh yah! I scored a copy of The Glee soundtrack during our exchange...so excited!! Thanks JMarch.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Gantz family Christmas

We celebrated a good ole Gantz family Christmas this weekend since some are heading south (Mom, Dad, Amy, Ali, and Carson) and some are heading north (Russell and Annie)...some are staying put (sorry Chris and Dan)...for Christmas.

Here are a few photos from the festivities...how did Mom and Amy escape the camera??

Icin' cookies...



Johnny Unitas and Reggie Wayne stopped by to ice some cookies...


Ali and Dan...very proud of their cookies...



Russell won the snowman dice game...



Merry Christmas, Gantz style...aka two weeks early

Thursday, December 10, 2009

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas...


...our "mantle"...I made my stocking first...it's a little small...Russell's on the other hand...yikes! I need to find a happy medium with my sewing of stockings.


...our Christmas tree...little full...lot of sap...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Boiler Up!

Russell and I received tickets for the Purdue basketball game with Ty on Saturday night. I was pumped because I had never been to Mackey before. I also thought it would be a good time to get a picture for our Christmas card. Therefore I told Russell that we could either get our picture with Purdue Pete or Robbie Hummell, to which he replied, "Ummm...that would be a little weird if Robbie showed up in our Christmas card, so Purdue Pete it is."

As soon as we walked in, Purdue Pete was walking up the stairs almost as if the picture had been planned. I chased him down; Ty took the picture; the rest is history. Here's a sneak peak at the picture on our 2009 Christmas card...BOILER UP!