Happy New Year!

We wish everyone a Happy Holiday season! This season we made it back home to Missouri for the holiday. We had a fun time visiting both Meghann's family and Daniel's family this Christmas. It was nice to get out of this mid 70 degree weather in Phoenix and get to some freezing weather for a white Christmas, although by the end of the trip it was nice to get back to more comfortable weather.

We made the NICE list this year (phew!) Santa brought Dan what he always wanted, an xbox 360 with Fifa 2010 (Meg and Santa are gonna have to have a talk about that one), while Meg got a Croc hair straightener! More than anything, we felt very blessed to be home with our families again.

After Christmas we headed down to Florida for the second consecutive year, though this time it was to be apart in Meghann's best friend from college Wedding Ceremony (congratulations Hannah and Mike). It turned out great and we were happy that we were able to participate. As you can tell Meghann had a great time... As was Daniel!! Doesn't she make a lovely bridesmaid?



We are still incredibly in love and hope that all your new resolutions come to pass!!

Love Meghann and Daniel Tracy

Happy Holidays

The holiday season is upon us! Disclaimer: no photos :(

The fabulous weekend began with what else? A three day work/school week! Which let's face it, cannot be beat.

Meghann's sister Stephanie (and family) came into town to visit Steph's in-laws which coincidently live in Tempe, AZ. So good news for us, we got to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family!

As usual patrons celebrating Thanksgiving, we snacked all day and ate a huge turkey feast, ate some pie and repeat. The night ended with Meg's two nieces, Madeleine and Olivia and nephew, Noah having a sleep over at our place! Nothing like a slumber party with Aunt Meghann and Uncle Daniel! The short story is, Noah (on more than one occasion) asked if he could move in with us. Beat that other aunt's and uncles.

The rest of the weekend concluded of braving the crowds on Black Friday with other crazy bargain shoppers, drive-in theaters, more family dinners, putting up Christmas decorations and some much anticipated sleeping in and chill-axing.

We hope everyone had a fulfilling holiday and is getting excited for the Christmas season! But first, Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without saying what we are thankful for.

Daniel's list: His loving beautiful wife, HD tv and hot dogs

Meghann's list: Family, 80 degree weather and sonic cherry coke (easy on the ice)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN....a little late

After all the ghost and ghouls have had their fun and we have gorded ourselves on the troves of candy collected (or stolen from your respective kids), the Arizona Tracys are wishing everyone a Happy "Late" Halloween!

Ours began a week before Halloween when we went to the local pumpkin patch and picked out the most perfect pumpkin! We braved the blazing October heat (it had to be 80 something) and cut through all the vines to find that all elusive perfect pumpkin. We went back to the Hatch's place and had a great pumpkin carving party!

At the party we kept the old tradition of all pumpkin carvers world-wide, Meghann, Kylee, and Clarie were busily getting their men Halloween treats while the men were actively engaged in a good work (making the pumpkins SCARY).

Some of you might be wondering, "Why is a piece of paper on Daniel's pumpkin?" Well, Daniel is always out for perfection. He HAND drew the image he wanted on the pumpkin and wanted it do be the best pumpkin EVER (it had to be better than last year)!
These are the pumpkins that we all carved that night!!!!! The picture below is our pumpkin with the candle in it. It looks scary huh!?! We even got the drunk neighbors approval when we put it on the door step.


Does Meghann ever turn into a monster on Halloween?????
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Yes, but Daniel had her back in the house before the last stroke of Midnight fell.
Halloween was fun and we dressed with the theme of Decades! Meghann was a hippie in the 60's (she even tie-dyed her own t-shirt!) and Daniel was a Wanna-be in the 70's. We ended up going to the Thunderbird Old Hallows Eve party and got to see all kinds of costumes. Namely Vampires (non of the Edward variety), Smurfs, Kung-Fu Panda, a Gold Digger, Satan, The singing bush from Three Amigos, Easter bunny and so many more. We had a great Halloween and hope that you all had a good one too!