Christmas with the Powells!!!

So, we had the best holidays here in Colorado and loved it! It is so nice that all of Aaron's families live here in Colorado except for his folks that are on a mission in Hawaii. We had such a great time with everyone. For starters...on Christmas Eve we had a huge dinner with all of us and some extra family, about 35 of us in all! Quite the household, it was fabulous.

The Christmas Eve festivities included...

Santa coming with a bag full of goodies for all the kids

A reading of the nativity story being acted out by all the kids

And of course...Chrismas Caroling!!

(My favorite is when Stewy played the guitar for all of us to sing along!)

And we cannot forget....receiving warm Hawaiian greetings from Aaron's parents!!

Now for Christmas Day!!!

Our first Christmas together as almost Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Powell! We stayed at Aaron's brother's Brent and Holly's place with their 3 boys on Christmas Day. His other brother Dave and wife Caroline were there as well. It was so fun to watch the boys open their presents on Christmas day and it was fun to play with them as well. Another favorite part of the day was just hanging out and possibly not changing out of our pj's until 4 pm. Yikes. I think that part made it feel just like home.

The only part that didn't quite feel like sunny Las Vegas was the wild snow that we got on Christmas day. Starting around 9 in the morning it started snowing like crazy and when all was said and done we got about 6-8 inches. My first white Christmas!!!

We hope all enjoyed the Christmas season to remember our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are so grateful for this time to be with family and friends. We also can't wait to be with all of our close family and friends at our wedding next week!! We can barely hold ourselves together in anticipation for the big day! We love you all, and are so excited to see those who are able to make it! The next post will be of the official Aaron and Robyn Powell!!!

Bridal Showers Galore!!!

So, I can never complain that I didn't have enough attention and love during my engagement time. I officially had 4 bridal showers (3 in Vegas in one day!!), and 2 bachelorette parties. Hello!! I had a lot of fun with all my ladies. It was so good to see everyone again and catch up, and get some awesome stuff.

I can't wait to see everyone for the wedding. Not that I'm counting, but it's only 26 days away until we get married! I almost can't believe it, but on the other hand 4 months has been a long time. I can't wait to be married to my amazing Aaron. It will be quite the reunion as well for all of the old roomies...I can't wait!

So, here is one of our favs. I tried to do more, but they came in all small so we will post more as we are able. Our dear Tracie Ware took our engagement pics, and did a great job despite the fact that during our first round it was crazy windy. You can see by my hair that I have the wind blown look, it's not on purpose, it really is windy!! Hope everyone enjoys the pic, we will of course endeavor to update our blog, and I'm pretty sure that Aaron will even partake in this!

We have arrived on blogspot!!!

Hello all! So, despite Aaron being grumpy pants about doing this before we are married, here we go! This all stems from the fact that I started listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving...he says this is just the same...starting a blog before being married. What do you do. Hope you all enjoy. If I can figure it out, I plan to post some engagement pics. We are getting married on January 12, 55 days from now...not that we're counting! We are so excited. Although we are not the Powell's officially yet, we are calling ourselves the Powellsons until we get married. Can't wait to see most of you in Vegas for the big day!