Hello 2015

January 2015
 D got a new position with his company.  So starting in December he started working from HQ in Fairfax. But that group will be moving to Houston in May.  Soooo - that meant that the Haddens were on the road again. A very tough move as Chicago was great and we all loved it there.  But we were excited to move back to Houston as that is really where we'd like to settle down.

Appears to have been pretty non-eventful based on the amount of pictures that I took!  Seems like cold and snow were the predominate theme throughout the month.

 This is actually from November or December.  Audrey had to write a personal narrative for her class and this is what she wrote!  (Just for full explanation, Audrey had a seizure at the end of October and she had several medical tests following that and this was one of them)

 For New Year's we took a quick side trip down to Zachary to see some of our friends.  Here are the girls with Lauren!

And here are me and D with the Bradfords and the Detres.

 So I always thought that once you got the below freezing, it was all the same.  HA HA HA...I laugh at that now.  It is not the same.  -21 does feel much much much worse than freezing or even 0! 

 D went on a guys trip to Breckenridge with his fraternity brothers.  He had a FABULOUS time!

 We had our first Big snow....thankful that we had bought the snowblower!

My friend Jen Schmidt and her family build an ice rink in their backyard every winter - right? how cool is that??  We were able to spend a couple of days over there doing some skating. 

The carpool gang from Fry AKA The Puff Ball Crew!!

February 2015

So it really got COLD for the month of February!!  We also celebrated D's birthday, D to Arizona to run in the Ragnar Relay, we had a blizzard, and we had to say goodbye to our friends in Naperville.

 Here I am rocking the snowblower!  I had to do this clearing while it was still snowing and then do it again when it was all done.  Both times it was about that deep!

 Trying to measure the snow.

 I don't think that I can emphasize how cold it was!

 On a day off from school due to the snow and freezing temps, we went sledding!! Audrey is adorable!

Me and Rach at the sledding hill.

 The Haddens and the Kuntzes

Lots of snow!

Since the girls had mastered ice skating, we thought it was time to take them roller skating!

And yes, I was out there roller skating - I was pretty awesome and didn't fall once!

Since D went on two guy's trips to go skiing and out to Arizona, his 40th party was just us!
 
Speaking of Arizona, here are some pictures from his Ragnar Relay.  Basically there are two vans of six people (they were a van of 6 guys and met up with a van of 6 girls - sounds a little suspicious if you ask me!) and they run constantly for over 200 miles.  Darren was the first runner and did legs 1, 13, and 25.  While that sounds like the worst trip ever, he actually loved it and wants to do it again.  I think it helped that he and his guys all got along really well and had fun in the van!

 At the starting line

Decorated van where you marked off as you finished your legs and kept track of all your "kills" (the amount of people that you passed on your leg)

D on his final leg

At the finish line with their whole team

At a well deserved fancy breakfast the morning after it was all over.

My farewell girls night out in Naperville.