'09= A "Rockin'" Start!

I know...extremely cheesy:)

I never really got to share what we did for New Years! Overall it was a pretty enjoyable evening...and some good partyin'! To start the night off, we went to an early dinner with our friends, the Schrock's. (Brandon & Jess) They came into town for a week from Arkansas. So we always try to get together with them whenever they make it home. Brandon's brother, Nick and his wife Andrea also went too. We had a great time! We went to the new restaraunt that was added on to UP mall, called Granite City. Super awesome place and amazing food!

After that we made it back to Brock's parent's, who were babysitting our boys for our dinner time. Quite nice:) They were having their own New Years bash at their place. So after a few hours of rock band and trying to get Isaac to sleep, we stayed the night! Yeah, Mr. Isaac stayed all the way up to midnight! I think it was way too loud for him to relax and sleep. Sir Kahler didn't mind....he went to bed at 9:30 and slept the whole night! It was even hard for me this year to stay up so late! Once the ball dropped, Isaac and I made our way down to bed and we were both out within a couple minutes!

Here' s where my "title theme" came from:) You don't ever see this going on! The 3 Maust brothers starting their own band:) Or just attempting to play Rock Band!

Introducing Shane(the oldest) on guitar, Brandon (aka "Bub" & middle brother)on lead vocals, and the baby, Brock (who belongs to me!) on drums.

They were quite the entertainment for the evening!

Earlier in the evening, with the Schrock's...

Jess & me
Brandon & Jess

Me and the hubby:)

And last but not least, the weekend after New Years we celebrated my cousin, Brandi's wedding! Brandi and Ben are finally married! They got married on Dec. 19th in Cancun and had their reception back in Goshen at the new Spohn Ball Room. It is a beautiful reception hall. We watched the slideshow of them and a video of their wedding in Cancun....which was probably the funniest wedding video I have EVER seen! No joke. It could win big bucks on America's Funniest Videos or something! You couldn't understand a word the lady was saying in their ceremony...and clearly neither could Brandi and Ben! We were all in tears from laughing so hard at the end of watching it!

Here's Brandi dancing with her dad, Uncle Don

Brandi and Ben cutting the cake

Me and the beautiful bride!

After Christmas break was over, I got off to a brand new start with a brand new job! I am now officially working as a Paraprofessional @ Fairfield! (Where I graduated from). Pretty awesome job that I'm really excited about! I work with the ED kids, and sit in classes with a couple of students. It has it's challenging moments, but I feel like I'm already making good connections with the kids just after 1 week of being @ school.

On top of that, we have found my boys an awesome Amish sitter! We absolutely love them! Isaac and Kahler had a great first week with them and I can see it being an awesome experience for all of us! It is also so super convenient considering how close they live to us right now, and to school. It's pretty great!

So, with now a full time job, this does mean less blogging:( I do spend a lot of time in the evening with the boys now since I don't get to see them all day. And I no longer get to go to Mottt's, which is super sad for me:( Gonna miss you ladies like crazy! Don't be strangers!

I'll try to keep up to date with our lives the best I can:)

Have a great 2009!!