The Malones: Life Lately

Oh how time flies! Hardly seems possible that I haven't made an entry to our blog in over a month! Rob, Porter & I had a wonderful christmas! My parents & Bret were able to make the long trip down to Austin to celebrate Texas style! Although the weather was not as cooperative as we had hoped, it was still much warmer & nicer than Christmas in Kansas. All three of us cleaned up shop well with all of our wonderful gifts from family & friends. I know I got more than I had asked for including two Vera Bradley travel bags, an awesome reversible down vest, gift cards, a kitchen aide mixer & carpet cleaner! Robert also received several useful gift cards, a multitude of coffee & purchased "us" a wonderful 42" LG television. He has definitely gotten more use than I although I'm not complaining...it's AWESOME! And Porter's surprise Santa brought him included a giant new bone & giant new posture-pedic bed.

Enjoying my presents!Thanks Aunty & Santa

Modeling the goods

Snugglin up with CC on my new comfy bed

Now that the holidays are over, we've managed to get most of the Christmas stuff down and back into proper storage. Rob and I have now entered his favorite time/season of all....planting season. This is the unfortunate time of the year where my second guest room is completely taken over with his plant starting rig-a-mo-ro. Below you can see the tedious assembly process as well as the joy in his twinkling little eyes as he carefully lays each individual seed into its designated place. If a stranger were to walk into our toasty, make shift greenhouse they would be concerned with may look like illegal substances growing tall & strong in our home! Every night Robby likes to head to the plant/man cave and just watch his little green bundle of joys grow & grow. Can't wait for them to be in the ground and to have that room more organized, not that we use it all that often.