Krissy: The thursday night after we got home from Jarod and Anna's wedding, we decided that we were going to take a l...o...n...g trip up to Headquarters (near Chicago) the next morning for some friends wedding.  It was a fun spur of the moment trip and it was great to see everybody!

Laura: We left about 5 in the morning and got there in time for an out-of-towners reception in the evening.  We had a good time at that.

The wedding of Katie Stearn and Jared Yates *whoo hoo!*

Krissy: We didn't end up getting very good pictures of the ceremony...

Laura: So here's some of our other fun times.

Krissy: Speaking of seeing everybody, here's Sarah, Olivia, and Evy.

Laura:  I started getting bored and decided to wonder....I found this to entertain me!  We all had fun trashin' the car.  OK...Krissy do you wanna say anything?

Krissy: No.  I don't think so.

The happy couples who were married a week apart.....

They seem to be enjoying it!! 

Our helium attempts - -  we had videos here but Xanga is cutting them short...

Laura: After a lot of people had cleared out, and things were getting cleaned up, the guys started sucking the helium.  I decided I wanted to try!  

Krissy:  Laura showed me how to do it, and it was a lot of fun!

Krissy: Here's me and Brianna    I worked with her when I was at Headquarters.

Laura: ahhh!!  *sigh*  I'm not so sure about this picture..oh well.  I felt like Treasures of the Snow 

Krissy:  Me and Laura decided to go on a walk in the snow.  It was really fun even though we didn't bring the right shoes.

Laura: Our last night there, a group of us went to sing at a nursing home.  Afterwards some of us went sledding in the dark and it was soo fun!  I hadn't gone sledding in forever and I have the biggest bruises to show for it!

"Give me my shoe..."

Krissy: Yeah, we weren't prepared for sledding so we had skirts, backless shoes, and no coat!  It was freezing but we had a blast!

Laura: We kept warm by running up and down the hill.    And now it's time to hear from Katie, our scribe.  (Krissy says..."she still needs training.")  I think she did pretty good!

Katie:  Um, while they were gone, I got these stuffed waffles...or not waffles, stuffed french toast with raspberry stuff on it, and I usually don't go for that kind of thing, but it was actually pretty good.  This was at Bob Evans - just in case you wanted to know.  I also cleaned the kitchen (more than once), which Laura should be proud of me for.  That's all.

We have fun traveling...put in your request and maybe we'll show up at your door next!

P.S. GO COLTS!

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A guy took his girlfriend to her first football game. They had
great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked
her how she liked the experience.

"Oh, I really liked it," she replied, "especially the tight
pants  and  all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they
were  killing each other over 25 cents."

Dumbfounded, her date asked, "What do you mean?"

"Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the
rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get
the quarterback!' I'm like...Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!"

MORE PICTURES!

We didn't have enough room on the last post for all the pictures so....here we go again. 

Pictures before the wedding

hmm...let's just leave this one to make up it's own story.....

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tidda!  that's us.

Greg and Truman just finished lighting the candles.  One flame is missing -- "it didn't have a wick!!"

Gotta get those pictures!  (Aunt Glendah and Aunt Ruth)

This is Angie, Uncle Keith, and Aunt JoAnn

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To top it all off....a video. 

  Thanks to our great friend Judy for these pictures!   but the video is ours... 

We just got back from a beautiful weekend in Georgia   Actually, the weather was so perfect that on our drive home, our root beer got so warm we cooled it off with the AC before we would take a drink.

Of course we're gonna use pictures to tell our story...there are so many but the actual wedding pictures we got didn't turn out well.  You'll havta check out other peoples sites who went for those.  Try www.joyjensen.com .  She'll get 'em up there sometime.

The wedding was absolutely perfect ! !   God was there.  Now for our weddings, we don't have to plan much...just do what they did haha, j/k.

Thursday mornin'...sleepy?  We all fit in his house pretty comfortably.

Decorating for the reception on Thursday afternoon

Workin' hard on cutting pineapple for the reception (Justus Wood is that non-hinton) 

We're putting the flowers all together at Jarod's church.  Here we're workin' on the bouquet

It's done!

The wedding party (and some special friends) went bowling on Friday afternoon!

He actually did really well on this bowl (Daniel Jackman)

At the Rehearsal dinner..it was REALLY nice   That's Angie Hinton (cousin)

Hangin' out with the Claytons after the dinner at Jarod's house. 

It's rather convenient that the sister of the bride is a beautician!!

Our cute ushers!  Master Truman and Master Gregory ...

Anna's siblings (Lynn & Bruce) 

ooh...feel that...feel what? 

This is so you can see those dresses.  The trouble with zippers was NOT exagerated...Krissy ended up being SEWN INTO her dress...thanks for your help Mom, Aunt Ruth, and Sarah. 

"Off we go!"

Kate caught the bouquet   OH, and Caleb got the garder! haha "oh we're good"

Elliot!  You crack me up!

Playin' rythem at an after party that our Dad threw.  We also played upset the fruit basket...

"sisters, sisters...there were never such devoted sisters."  Mom, Aunt Ruth, Aunt Glendah.  Thanks to all the family and friends who traveled, it was special to have you there!

SuperBruce - he loves to curl his hair like superman....

TRAVEL TIME! 

Sleeping beauty

Anna's not so sure yet about kissing in public or for the camera...Jarod doesn't mind!   

To all of those who went, let us know if you post pictures so we can check out your site!  We can't WAIT for the video and pictures!!!!

Jarod is an encouraging brother who's set a good example...and Anna will be just that kind of sister too. 

We love you guys, have fun, see ya later!

Wow...we've been working on dresses 24/7!!  Well, at least Mom has...  After we finished the more simple ones she was stuck with the rest, and while she was doing the sewing, we were stuck with all the mom work *sigh*

Our Aunt came from PA to help us out around New Years and that was fun.  Our dinning room was a regular sweat shop!  3 sewing machines and fabric and patterns EVERYWHERE!  We haven't cleaned it for days....

Laura:  Here's pictures of at least one night of our sewing...I went to bed around 3...just couldn't make it!  Besides, I had to 'cause I'm driving today.

Katie:  We went over to the Danahers last night to borrow the sewing machine, but ended up taking Sarah too.  We stayed up late and made eggs and sausage...and I'm falling asleep.

Krissy:  Keep in mind these pictures were taken around 6 o'clock in the morning after being up all night. )

Laura:  If we had the time and energy maybe we would take a picture of Super Girl and put Sarah's face on her!  She was a big help!!

Notice the tools and determined face!  We had some troubles with that there zipper.

Katie:  We drank coffee and cocoa mixtures, and me and Krissy ended up getting Krispy Kreme after we dropped off Sarah.  I'm getting hungry, and if I eat again that'll be my third breakfast!

Laura:  Second breakfast...and what about tea time?  and elevensies?

Katie:  No, third breakfast.

Krissy: OK..I'll say...ummm...um..hehe...I had something I was gonna say...shuu.  You guys are being clever, you must be still awake.  I'm totally, kinda, out of it. 

Katie:  Me and Krissy haven't slept in a long time.

Laura:  OK, I think it's time for us to go...and maybe take a nap girls? 

Katie:  We're waiting till we leave for Georgia.

Laura:  That might be a while...our parents aren't ready.

Krissy:  I hope we leave soon, 'cause then I can have sleep time in the car.

Laura:  okay....

   See ya after the wedding!

You all know us (or at least one of us) but not all of you know our best friends...

First We introduce Daddy!  OK, he's not the oldest, but he is in charge.

Super Mom...doing one of her FAVORITE things

Jarod - AKA: Jay-Rod, J-man, J.T., Od, and a favorite that we're

not at liberty to mention hahaha!   -2/13/80

After that, there's Matt...or Matthew as we often call him -6/6/82

You know us....

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Our handsome brother Caleb  -10/8/91

And now we get to a few more brown eyes...Nasia  -1/17/93

A twin!  HannaH.    -11/12/94

Then there's Truman..okay, he came out first but they're TWINS people...

And...*drum roll please* Last but not least...the one, the only, goof ball GREG!   -7/1/96

Playing air soft is so much fun, Aaron you should so get one!  We all want to get more so that we can have bigger, badder, battles...at the park even  

We start playing a version of capture the flag.  A little while into the game, Krissy FINDS THE FLAG in the sand box, and starts running to her team/base!  A few steps before winning the game for her and her team, she trips and falls to the cement patio...  There's a big scramble as everyone is yelling and loading up thier guns!  Within seconds Caleb shoots Krissy at close range, as she's struggeling to get up.  In all the confusion and shootings, Caleb grabs the flag and wins for his team.  The game is over, and now we all check on Krissy.  After a few angry words, and some playful shoving, we discover Krissy has open wounds and ripped jeans.

Boy did we have fun...actually, we're getting ready to go out and play more right now...

We had a great Christmas...blah, blah, blah....we don't really feel like talking/typing so here's how we like telling it...with PICTURES!

Mom's Birthday is on Christmas Eve

CHRISTMAS MORNING!!

                                                                                         "Is it my turn yet?"

 Colts Pride!!                                From Caleb to Matt, from Anna to Jarod...they both got the same shirt. 

We got a Ping-Pong table!!

We were out shopping for birthday presents for our Mom and when we got home, Laura spotted a package sitting on the foyer dresser! 

Laura: "Hey, look at that!  Who's it to?  It better be for me!"

Katie checks the box and says, "Hinton Monsters!"

Immediatly we knew who it was from, oh the excitment as we rushed upstairs and waited for Krissy to catch up...(she was getting the knife to cut the tape)

We each had a card inside (of which, we took turns reading out loud), happy little stockings with all kinds of different flavored hershey kisses, and a special gift for each of us!! 

We were overly excited to recieve the bestest package we had EVER gotten!!!

Thanks to you who sent it (you know who you are).  It made our Christmas Eve Eve the best Christmas Eve Eve ever - you're the best!

p.s. we're listening to Klinkenberg right now

  First off....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL!

Second....we lost our camera.  That's the reason we haven't posted in so long.  We have made search parties and made a "journal" of where it was last seen and who had it last.  We have prayed....and God has not shown us where it is...yet.    If you want, you can pray that we find it, and/or come over sometime and look in our couch cushions and in all of our cupboards or through our dirty laundry and stinky garbage.  AND, we do have a prize bucket for whoever finds it.  The prize includes everything from cash to pez candy!

For now, randomness.....

this is us many, many, many moons ago.....  1995..?

Laura and Krissy in our cousins wedding

Krissy is the baby

last year in our neighbors yard....the house was for sale.  we didn't want to ruin our snow.

Lady Katherine having her tea.

umm...need we say more?

Parties at the Hinton house!

Nasia and Hannah created a home in the basement out of sheets and odd things.  VERY cool!!

Having some cocoa!

This is Andrew's car.  niiiice.