Christmas in Texas...

This year, Ed and I spent Christmas in Texas. We had a great time visiting and hanging out with lots of family and friends. Here are a few pictures of our fun time. Hope your Christmas was as fun as ours!

Before we left for Texas, Ed & I put up our Christmas Tree and Christmas cards.

Tiffani's mom opening gifts in Texas.

Ed opening gifts in Texas.

Tiffani opening gifts in Texas.

The gorgeous ring Ed got Tiffani. (me :>)

Ed & Tiffani at the Dallas, Texas Temple.

The Temple with Nativity Scene.

Ed & Tiffani with Keith & Casandra.

Ed being "gangsta" with Tiffani's brother Keith.

Elizabeth, Carly, Gwen & Tiffani. (Old YSA friends reunion of sorts @ Chili's.)

Ed & Tiffani with Grandma Rusty.

We stopped to see the lights in Grayson, TX on the way home.

Santa was even fishing on the lake!! How do they put lights on water?

The exit as we left the Holiday Lights.

Merry Christmas from The Wilbur’s

We are proud to present our first attempt at The Wilbur Family Christmas Newsletter. We’ve wanted to do a newsletter to all of our friends and family for Christmas in years past but felt we really had nothing to tell. This year however, has been very eventful, so we thought we’d give this “newsletter thing” a try.

This year, Edwin accepted a position in Oklahoma as a Concrete Mixer Driver. Accepting this new position presented us with the major goal of moving from Texas and finding a home in Oklahoma. Near the end of March 2008, we had all paperwork completed for our new home. April 2008 I (Tiffani), said goodbye to Texas as our home, and joined my husband in our new home in Oklahoma. We have enjoyed this inspired change in our lives. Ed has thrived in his position. He has been trained as the Relief Batchman, received several performance raises and promoted to a larger concrete mixer truck. I returned to work in June after a two month break. I accepted a position at a Waste company as the Scale Operator. I haven’t been there very long, but I’ve learned many, many things I didn’t know about this industry and look forward to learning lots more.

As the months have gone by, we have enjoyed all the projects of making our home ours with our own personal touches. Unpacking and decorating inside, putting in flowers, putting in a driveway, adding a patio, and building a storage building in the backyard, just to name a few. In an effort to add even further to our home, we are planning to adopt a child to into our family. Hopefully for the New Year 2009, we will look forward to being parents. Luckily, we’ll have grandparents, uncles & aunts, and nieces & nephews close for advice, assistance and play dates. With a child being added to our family, we’re hoping our Christmas Newsletters in years to come will be much more exciting.

Throughout the year, there are many changes and busy times in all of our lives, but we wanted to take a brief moment to say we are delighted that we have you as friends and family. Thank you all for your friendship and love.
Edwin & Tiffani

Merry Christmas and have a prosperous New Year!

OOpppsss...I forgot to post these pictures!

I was looking through my camera the other night and thought, "Hey, I haven't shown these pictures?" So here's a few pictures from the past two weeks or so.

My brother (Tiffani's) and his family stopping overnight

here in Oklahoma on their way to relocate to Utah.

Terry, Kayla & Joseph

Mom at Robber's Cave in Oklahoma Thanksgiving Day.

All of us at Robber's Cave in Oklahoma Thanksgiving Day.

Ed & I in our deer hunting gear in the woods.

Ed ready to snag a deer!

Ed's deer hunting birthday cake!

Ed at his cake and ice cream party.

Ed & I at the McAlester Christmas Parade.

(It was 20 degrees at 7:00pm!!)

Our niece and her mom in the Christmas Parade.

(She's the one waving with the pink glove.)

We put up Christmas lights!

Our house with Christmas lights

We put up Christmas lights on our house Friday and they look pretty cool. Ed thinks it looks like Halloween because they are all orange. Well,..I guess we have the "Nightmare Before Christmas" house. (I think it looks cool!)

No deer this year...

Sorry to report that today was the last day of deer season and we have no deer in our freezer.(sad face) Ed saw at least 4 deer and shot at 2, but no deer was brought home. That's ok though, better luck next year. Ed has plans to go wild hog hunting on a friends land, so hopefully we'll have tons of bacon and pork chops here soon!-lol

Happy Birthday December 3rd!!

Happy Birthday Ed!!!

This Wednesday is Ed's birthday. I'm still getting some minor plans together for it, but I plan to have a small get together with friends & family for cake and ice cream. I don't know of too many places around here to go do things like I do in Dallas, so I couldn't keep any birthday plans secret from him. He had to pretty much plan it with me. Maybe next year when I know what's around, I can do better secret planning. He doesn't know what his presents are, so that's at least one surprise I'm able to have. Anyway...Happy Birthday baby, I love you!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

Happy Turkey Day

As I sit here to type, I smell our Thankgiving hen cooking in the oven. My mom (Tiffani's mom) is here with Ed & I to celebrate our first Thanksgiving in Oklahoma. She helped cut up veggies and prepare to stuff the hen with carrots, celery and a small apple. I got a tip from a co-worker that stuffing an apple inside the chicken/turkey will help it to stay moist and add a little sweetness to the meat. I'm excited to see if it works! The weather is great 60 degrees here. After we are all done stuffing our faces this afternoon, we plan on going to Robbers Cave, a beautiful state park, to walk around and check out the natural scenery. Mom has never been there, but I think she'll love it, because she loves the outside. As I have my family here for this holiday, I really am thankful for so much. To name just a few things, a supportive husband, a loving family, a wonderful home, a great job, and great friends. I hope all of you enjoy your Thanksgiving, too!