Regional Champs

Dallas Christian College went and played in the Regional Tournament this weekend in Joplin, MO and brought back the banner. We are so excited about this because it is the first time in the school's history for this to take place. Dalon has worked very hard this year to have a successful Senior year. Here is a picture of his team after the game with their banner.

Dalon is the one standing on the left side of the banner with the black long sleeve shirt on.

Not only did the team come back with a huge win, but Dalon and his good friend Christian Lawyer got personal awards too. They got First Team All Region. They have worked  very hard and it was nice to see if pay off with this award.

Here is Dalon cutting the net down from the rim!! He is super excited about this. I believe that everyone on the team got to keep a little piece of the net as a reminder of this accomplishment.

I am very excited for the 2009 - 2010 Basketball Team. They will go down in history at Dallas Christian College for this WIN!!

Christmas Time...

So this time of the year is one of my most favorite times...not because of the presents, I promise. I think it is just a lot of fun to decorate your house, listen to Christmas carols, go see Christmas lights and everything else that takes place during this time of the year is the best. My parents have been up in Madison, WI this week visiting my sister and her family. They opened Christmas presents last night and the girls loved the Disney Princess backpacks and Uncle Dalon and I got them. I was excited to hear that they LOVED them. My parents are coming back to Dallas this evening and spending the rest of the time until Christmas day with Dalon and myself. We are excited that we are going to be able to have them here for Christmas. We are going to be celebrating Christmas this year at our new apartment. I am very excited and nervous all at the same time. At least mom is here to help me cook. I have been on allrecipes.com this morning making sure that I have all the recipes for everything that I am cooking. We are going to be celebrating with Dalon's parents and then the 4 of us. At least there won't be like 20 of us. I think I can handle 6 people. We will see!! I am very excited because Dalon is getting me a new phone for Christmas. We are up for an upgrade come January so we are going to wait until then but I am still super excited. I think he is going to print off a picture of it and wrap it so that I have something to open!! I love my husband. He knows that I love opening gifts.
I hope that I can get some pictures taken this next week and put them up so that everyone can see our new place and the Christmas dinner that will be taking place!! Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Really Got Me Thinking...

As all of you know...Dalon and I live in Dallas, Texas. We will most likely be moving somewhere else this summer but are not sure where yet. We are waiting on the Lord to bless us with the location. We are very excited about this but it got me thinking today. I realized that over the 26 years of my life I have never lived close to my family, extended family that is. All of my family is either up North or in Arizona. Since moving from Venezuela I have lived in either South Carolina, Arkansas, or Texas. For the most part it is not that big of deal, but sometimes I think it would be nice to live somewhere close to family. My sister and her family (my 3 nieces) live in Madison, WI. I have only seen them about 4 times in their life. Sometimes I think that I should live up north so that I can actually see my family on a regular basis. I was looking at Facebook today and was very excited for my cousin who had her second child today and could not believe that I will most likely not see here until next year sometime. But I know that this is the location that I am supposed to be at and that the Lord has major plans for Dalon and I in the near future. Don't get me wrong...I love Texas but sometimes I just wish I could see my family more.
Talk about seeing family more...I am super excited because my parents are at the airport in Santiago, Chile right now getting ready to get on the flight that will bring them to see me tomorrow morning. I have been busy all day getting ready for their arrival. They will be spending most of their hours on Saturday sleeping but at least they will be in the next room over instead of in another country.
Hope all is well with all of you...We love you and Good night...

Family Time & Snow....

Dalon and I are very excited about my parents are coming in on Saturday to visit for about a month. They are going to be traveling to attend a conference and to see my sister up in WI but we are going to be their home base until December 25th. It will be nice to be able to celebrate the holidays with them again this year. It is hard to realize that this time last year we were headed up to Grandma's for Christmas. I can not believe that it has already been a year since Dalon proposed. Oh great memories of the cold weather and snow. Talking about snow...Dalon and I woke up this morning to about 6 inches of snow. Yes, I did say snow!!! The weather channel said that there was a slight chance of snow flurries so we all assumed like we always do that it would be cold but no snow. However, this time we were wrong. It is funny to see the reaction of everyone here in Texas when it snows. They almost think it is the world coming to an end. I was on Facebook this morning looking at all the postings of snow covered yards, cars, trees and everything else. People here in Texas have to take pictures of it so that we can actually show people that it can snow in Texas. The weather people are saying that it could snow again on Friday. This is very strange for Texas to be getting this type of weather so early in December. I am a little worried about the winter this year. My parents are going to freeze when they get here. It is supposed to be a high of 49 when they get in. Welcome to Texas!!!
Well I think I have rambled on enough tonight. I would like to say though please be in prayer for my parents as they travel this weekend and for Dalon as he is leaving on Thursday night or Friday morning for a very long roadtrip this weekend for Basketball. They are going to be playing in Arkansas (about 6 hours away) and then traveling over to Kansas (about 8 hours from Arkansas) to play on Saturday. With the weather being the way that it is I am a little worried about this trip.
Have a good night and talk to you later...

Time Off...

This is a phrase that is not often heard in our household. However, Dalon and I both have a couple of days off around Thanksgiving. Dalon has had off since last Saturday night until this coming Friday morning. This is something very unusual for the both of us. Most of the time Dalon is busy with sports from August all the way until March. So we have made the most of our time together. We have done some good cleaning around the house. I organized the closet and changed over from our summer clothes to our winter clothes. Those are the only two types we have because of living in Texas!!! It was nice to be able to get some nice housework done. Dalon also decided because we are going to be super busy until my parents come that this would be a good time to go ahead and put up the Christmas decorations also. This made my day to say the least. I have spent most of the day today putting up our Christmas tree and putting up the other decor in the living room. I put on Christmas music and was dancing around like I was 2 years old. It made me really excited about my family being here for Christmas this year. We are planning on celebrating Christmas at our house this year. It could get very interesting to say the least. 

Dalon has a basketball tournament this weekend in Fort Worth so hopefully I will be able to make all the games. It has been hard to make a lot of the games this year because they are all out of state so it will be nice to make 2 games in 1 weekend. 

Please pray for Dalon and I as we are trying to decide on our future after Dalon graduates from school. Dalon is trying to decide if he wants to play basketball at the next level and where to play at. Please be in prayer with us as we try to figure out what exactly God has in store for us in the future. If you want to know more about this just let me know and I will give you more information. 

Basketball Season is upon us!!

Well as most of you guys know, Dalon plays both soccer and basketball for his college here in Dallas. Well soccer season ended about 2 weeks ago in a tough loss. We went into double overtime and penalty kicks in both the semi-finals and the finals. It was a well fought game but Southwestern just came out on top. Dalon was not very happy to say the least but by the end of the day he was hanging up his soccer cleats and dusting off his basketball shoes.
After playing two games in one weekend, he then turned around and played basketball on Monday night. He actually was able to play longer than I thought. He was in a lot of pain come Tuesday morning though. He is getting older and forgets that his body can only take so much. I think he is finally realizing this. As much as he would have liked a little time off that was not going to be possible because of the way that his coach scheduled the games for this season.
This season is going to be very trying on not only Dalon, but also for myself. They are playing a total of 33 games this season with only 7 home games. There are many weeks from now until the beginning of March that Dalon is only home for 2 days a week. He is going to be gone every weekend in the month of November. He even plays the weekend of Thanksgiving. It is not very much fun on a new marriage for half of the couple to never be around. However, I knew what I was signing up for when I got married so I should not complain. :)

On to a better note...We found out last week that my parents are going to be coming up to visit almost the whole month of December. They are going to be attending a conference in Austin, Texas for their new job and are tacking on a couple weeks of vacation. They are going to be going up to visit my sister and her family for about 4 days in the middle of the month. I know my nieces are looking forward to that. They don't get to see Grandma and Grandpa Bohlen very often. We are very thankful that they are going to be able to come and stay with us for Christmas. They are leaving on the 25th for Santiago, CHILE but we are going to celebrate Christmas on the 24th with both sets of parents. It will be nice to have everyone together for our first Christmas as a married couple.

Well I think I have talked enough for today. I hope that you enjoying keeping up with us. Sometimes our lives get away from us, but we will try and keep you as up to date as possible.

Starting a blog...

I have decided to start a blog because I have family all over the United States and even the world. I want to be able to keep up with everyone and thought this might be a good way to start. I am always on the computer doing things for the wedding coming up this summer that I might as well keep everyone up to date on my life. I will hopefully take more pictures and have more interesting things to talk about now that I have a blog. Please feel free to come back and visit me again. I hope that my family members that do have blogs will follow this one and let me know all the fun things that there is to do with a blog.

Talk to you soon.