Christmas with Family

This year, Brad and I spent Christmas down in Medford with the Fetrow family! It was a good time filled with delicious food, games, wine and Pendleton, and most importantly, family!

We had a busy Christmas Eve day, which started off with taking Dexter to the Vet. (He’s fine! Just getting his much needed check-up), then we stopped by our family friend’s to pick up our BCS National Game Tickets. They were gracious to offer to sell their tickets to us, we are thankful for them thinking of us and which helped make the trip down to Arizona much of a possibility. Brad made a delicious dinner on Christmas Eve and we spent the night decorating cookies and playing games!

Christmas Day we got up, and Brad and I joined his parents to go to church. After that we came home, changed into all of our Duck gear to open presents. Not joking, we each put a duck shirt on-we are that serious about the Ducks! Haha!
Santa was good to Brad and this year! We had a delicious ham dinner, played some more games and then called it a night!

It was a great time down in Medford and thank you Lynda and Mike for all the fun treats, feeding us and cleaning up after us! :) We love you!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas filled with love and laughter and family!

I Met the Blazers!!

There are many things I love about my job...one of those things are the events we have in our facility.
Yesterday, the Blazers hosted a holiday event for Military Families with over 500 people! And one of the best parts about it was I was rubbing shoulders with them, well, technically not shoulders since they are all 6 foot 7!! But I got to talk to a few of them! I tried not to act start stuck, but let’s face it-it’s the Blazers, how can you not!
One of my favorite moments of the day is when I spotted Rudy Fernandez, my favorite Blazer, in a back room playing a game! I, of course, walked in to make sure everything was okay. Turns out it wasn’t, so I got to help him out. And I even asked if I could get him a refill on his soda, which was about the only words I could spit out because I was so nervous!! I did snap a picture of him and “Patty” Mills playing rockband together.
Since everyone I worked with got word that I’m a big fan of Rudy, they all pressured me to get a picture with him, again, I was too nervous to even approach him. Even my General Manger took me over to him and we used his phone to snap a picture. I think my smile simply explains how I was feeling in that moment!!!

Nicolas Batum, "Patty" Mills, Rudy Fernandez and ME!!

Brad asked if I was going to ever wash that shirt again, the answer is NO!!! It was a glorious day!

O Christmas Tree

YAY!! It’s Christmas time and all my family and friends know that this is my FAVORITE holiday, along with a million other people out there...but still, I claim it as my favorite.

But I have to say first, that I’m one lucky lady to have the best husband in the world who understands my obsession with Christmas... This year I asked if we could get our tree right after Thanksgiving. He knew better than to argue with me and granted me my wish! Such a sweetie!

So on Sunday, we headed out to find the perfect Christmas tree! I decided to switch it up this year and have a different tree with a different theme and decorations. When Brad and I first moved in together, we had not one single Christmas decoration, so we ran out one day and grab just basic ornaments and lights and as the years gone by, we just never got around to updating it! Again, Brad was supportive with what I wanted since he said I always have a way of making Christmas look good!

This year, we took Dexter since it was just the two of us...he was one tired doggy after all that walking and tree hunting.

Yes, this is Brad asking me to take a picture of him as he pretends to act like Godzilla....you gotta love him!

This is it! After an hour of searching and walking to every corner of the tree farm!

The Fetrow Christmas Tree

Our tree before decorations...

A little “Hope” was the first thing to go on the tree this year...

A close up...

The tree, decorated with love and lots of Christmas cheer!



"O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
Oh ever green unchanging
A symbol of good will and love
You'll ever be unchanging
Each shining light each silver bell
No other light spreads cheer so well"

Love, The Fetrow's

Duke vs. Ducks

On Saturday, Brad, myself and Brad’s parents went to see Duke play the Ducks. There were so many exciting factors about this game. One being that we saw the # 1 ranked football team, Oregon Ducks, play the day before and now we get to see the #1 ranked basketball team, Duke Blue Devils, play the next day! Secondly, Saturday’s game marks the first meeting between the two schools.

And the most exciting part of all-the game was staring Duke’s senior Kyle Singler against his younger brother sophomore E.J Singler. And last but not least, these brothers are from Medford and I had the privilege of watching these boys play together! Needless to say, ever since Kyle went to Duke, I become a fan. Sorry Mike (my father-in-law!)

This game was the first chance for Kyle to play in his home state since leaving for Durham, N.C. Rumor has it, that Coach K promises his players that if they stay all four years, they’ll get a game in their home state.

As you can see...the Duck fans! Brad, Lynda and Mike


I did not wear a Duck shirt as I am more of a Duke basketball fan. Don't worry, I heard about it from all three of them. So we stopped at the Duck store on the way there and I picked up a Duck necklace. I kept saying that I was neutral to represent Medford :) That didn't fly with my father-in-law! BUT!! I did cheer only for the Ducks...and silently every time Kyle scored!

It was an exciting game to see in person as this is the first time the Singlers played against each other, and the first time they were on the same court in a real game since they led South Medford High School to the state championship in 2007. Kyle is #12, EJ is #25.

Mike and Lynda caught a shirt that was thrown into the stands.

The eventual outcome didn't much matter when the brothers hugged tightly after the game.