One more thing...

We also wanted to say thanks to the Heutmakers for a great lunch out today!

It was so fun to get to see you for a bit today! Why is it so hard to find time to get together?
Hope is beautiful and you are SUCH great parents! We are so blessed to have you be an example for us in how you are raising such a bright, fun, and gorgeous daughter!

We love you and HAVE to get together soon! We'll take over Mike and Ann's Wii!!!
;)
See you soon!

Bye for the week!!!

It's VACATION TIME!!! and We just wanted to say "See you in a week!!!" We're almost done packing and we're going to head off to bed here soon.
We're leaving bright and early for the airport for San Diego and then on to Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta via Princess Cruise Lines!!!
WE'RE SO EXCITED!!! (In case you can't tell!)

I'm sure we'll have LOTS of pictures to share and I'll post them as soon as I can. We planned this vacation well as we get back on Sunday, Nov 11th, and I have the 12th off of work. YAY!!! It'll be good to have a day of vacation, after vacation!

If you want to check out our ship you can also view the bridge cam. It'll show you updates of where the ship is in the course of our week.

We'll be on the Dawn Princess.
http://www.princess.com/bridgecams/dp/dawn_bridgecam.html

Tigo will be at Dog Days for the week, but they don't have a bridge cam. ;)

Have a great week and we'll see you soon!
Cheryl, Chris, and Vicky.

What's been happening...

Sorry for the lack of updates on here. Life is still pretty crazy and making enough time to update everyone has been hard. :) Chris is gone today visiting his Grandma with Barb and Vicky, so I'm able to find some time to sneak up here to say hello! :)

These are just a few pictures from getting ready for Mike and Ann's wedding! They had a GREAT day! It was so fun to celebrate with them and see so many people who have loved Ann and Mike throughout their lives celebrating together! We were so blessed by all of the conversations we were able to have with those that we don't get to see very often and those who we hadn't yet had a chance to chat with!

We also were able to spend Steven's birthday with him as well as his birthday was the Friday before the wedding! The Strum's were so nice to even arrange for him to have a birthday cake!

Here are just some more pics from the weekend....

Someday, I'll figure out how to get my pictures to go where I want them on here. lol

:)

Blessings to all of you!

Have a great weekend!

Visit with the Beams!!!

Hope and Troy came for a visit and met their nephew Tigo for the first time EVER! He loved them and was so excited to show them our home. He can't wait to visit in Nebraska someday very soon!

:)

TWO YEARS!!!

Can you believe it's been TWO years since I became Mrs. Christopher Mendez? WOW!!! What an amazing two years they have been! Marriage is amazing and I love my husband even more today than I did two years ago. I am so thankful to be able to share my life with my best friend. Here are some pictures from our dinner out and also a couple from the last couple of years. :)

How very blessed am I?

Update on Dad...

Last Monday my Dad had surgery at Mayo. Just wanted to let you all know that he is fine and is home recovering. He was released from the hospital yesterday and sounded great on the phone when I talked to him today. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing Dad and am so thankful that everything went well! Please keep praying for him as he regains his strength.
:)

FAIR FUN and STEVEN!!!

Hey there... it's been a while since I've been able to post. WHERE has summer gone?

We had a great weekend a couple (or several) weekends ago when our friend Steven came up to visit! We spent a lot of our time at the fair with Vicky. Lots of good food and good fun! Steven still owes me $3 for fulfilling the trolly ride dares that he challenged me to. It was a great weekend to go as it was "fitness day" at the fair. It's amazing how great you feel after accomplishing the fitness walk even though you ate two corn dogs! (They were GREAT corn dogs!)