Christmas comes to the Tidrow house!

Christmas is rapidly approaching, so we finally found the time to get everything ready at our house! Last Christmas, we were preparing to move to Terre Haute, so we put up our artificial tree. This year though, we were able to get our first real Christmas tree! We went to a local place called Holiday Hill Tree Farm. We were even able to cut our own tree, which is something neither of us have ever done before!


Here's Luke with the saw he used to cut down our tree!

Of course, before the tree went home, the folks there had to manhandle it a little to make it less messy and easier to transport.
After we got home, we had to put the tree in its stand. So Luke spent some time bonding with the new tree stand!

Izzy wanted to check out the tree too!

Then we started decorating. Luke put the star on top, and we both added our ornaments.


Even Izzy helped...by sitting on the tissue paper that the ornaments were wrapped in.

And now our house is completely decorated inside and out! So enjoy a few shots of our tree & home, and Happy Holidays from the Tidrow Family! - Luke, Pam, & Izzy Cat

Thankful

There is nothing like Thanksgiving to remind you (as if we should need reminding!) of the many blessings we have. We spent the holiday with friends and family, playing board games, watching football, and just hanging out. Some of the things we're thankful for this year are the birth of a healthy, beautiful baby niece, Haiden; a home that's not underwater; and another year with my Great Grandmother. 

Mom and I made a special visit to our relatives in Ohio for a girls' lunch out with Granny, and we all had a great time.

Now we are back home and preparing for Christmas. If you'd like to help us, please vote on our poll!

Dancing Disaster

Luke is not an avid Dancing With the Stars fan. I, on the other hand, was online the day ABC announced this fall's cast. I've been DVRing every episode so I can skip through the commericals and not miss a beat. My 2 favorite contestants the entire time have been Cody Linley & Lance Bass. Cody is just adorable, and I ended up rooting for him because of how hard he worked...and because I love Julianne Hough.

I was a huge fan of *NSYNC, and Lance has always been my favorite...even through that whole space cadet era. So of course I was cheering for him all season! But last night, my hopes were dashed when Brooke "I can pop out like 15 kids and still look like a freakin' goddess" Burke stole the trophy. She may have had great technique but she bored me senseless!

If you haven't kept up with Dancing this season, feel free to check it out here.

As distraught as I am, the show must go on. My reality tv fix may be over for awhile though. Well, at least until American Idol!

(Photo of Lance Bass & Lacey Schwimmer from Dancing with the Stars website on ABC.com)

Countdown to Turkey Day!

It's only a week until Thanksgiving, and we're looking forward to going back to Richmond & Centerville to visit with our family.

In Farmersburg today, it is ridiculously cold - 38 degrees! And everyone has started to get sick, including Luke. For right now though, Izzy & I are doing just fine.

Hopefully, we'll have some good Turkey Day pictures next week to post!

Long time, no post!

It's been ages since we last posted, but we have a good reason!

We've been very busy fixing up our new home - a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, rental on about an acre in Farmersburg, IN. There is a creek that runs through the backyard and a big bonfire pit perfect for entertaining.

Izzy loves her new home, too, because it has lots of big windows to sit in. Luke spends lots of time puttering in the garage or outside, and I love having a nice, big kitchen to cook and bake in.

Hopefully we'll find more time to blog soon and keep you all posted. Have a great fall weekend everyone!

Welcome new niece!

On Wednesday, August 20th at 6:25pm, we welcomed a beautiful baby niece to the family. Haiden Kaylei came in at 6 lb. 14 oz. and 19 3/4 in. long. You can see her hospital picture here. Hopefully we'll have some great new pictures of her soon!

5 Years!

Today we celebrated the 5th Anniversary of our first date. Wow! It's hard to believe it's been that long, but here's a snapshot of all that's happened in those 5 years:

• 8 Goat Shows: At least that Luke came to...
• 7 Trips to the Driving Range: It's about give and take folks...and I wasn't quite as awful as I thought
• 6 Cars: Mable (the red Pontiac), the burgandy boat, the Contour (may the transmission rest in peace), the Neon (still going!), the HHR (God bless the '57 style front end that saved Ricky & Luke's lives), and the Equinox
• 5.5 Births: Peyton Tidrow, Jacob Farmer, Sophia Sparks, & our adopted nieces Savannah Semmler & Shelby Life. Oh yeah...and there's another on the way (Yay Hayden!)
• 3 New Homes (in the past year no less!): Plainfield, Terre Haute, Farmersburg (coming soon!)
• 2 Deaths: Aunt Marcella Rader & Grandpa Max Farmer
• 2 Study Off-Campus trips: New Mexico for a month & Philadelphia for a semester
• 1 College Transfer: USI to Vincennes University
• 1 Flood (We're figuring that Pestilence and Frogs will come in for the 1st & 5th wedding anniversary.)

So you may have noticied that I mentioned a move to Farmersburg. It's true! We're no longer homeless! And our wonderful friends can have their house back. I do think that the saddest part of the Flood-forced Brady Bunch will be Savannah (who loves her kitty cat!) and Bear and Izzy. They've gotten kind of used to each other!

Hopefully we'll have pictures of the new place soon, but we don't move until after September 1st. Anybody free to help move? :)