Worst. Blogger. Ever.

It's official, I am a terrible blogger. So here are the pictures I promised almost two months ago. You probably forgot I even said I would post these, but these are from our 5-year anniversary trip to New England. We flew into New York and drove up the coast to Maine, then back down through the mountains. Here are the coast pictures. And yes, this trip was months ago :)

Any Julia Roberts fans? This was the Mystic Pizza from her very first movie.

The very first Baptist Church in America

Oldest library in America

The towns there were so cute and each had some sort of big fall contest or theme. This town had the biggest pumpkins you have ever seen all up and down main street. We should have stood next to these to show the size, but trust me, they are BIG!

ahh, pretty.

Our splurge of the trip was spending two night at this amazing bed and breakfast in Maine! This was the view of the harbor from our porch.

More views from the bed and breakfast. This was totally the highlight of the trip!

We figured there should be at least one pic of us...

We also made a point to visit a bunch of Ivy League schools while we were there. Georgeous!

Northeast Pics!

Ok so our vacation to New England was amazing! We went to so many cool towns, it's going to take more than one post to show you guys everything! I'll start with some great fall foliage pics from the few days we spent driving through the mountains. It was so peaceful and beautiful!

This church in a tiny mountain town was just picture perfect!

There were tons of cute covered bridges.

This sign points to the home that was the inspiration for the movie "The Sound Of Music". It is even still owned by the Trapp family. I guess I could have posted a picture of the actual home, but these trees are just so pretty!




It was so pretty there, the pictures just don't do it justice! We also spent a lot of time on the coast, I'll post some of those pics soon!

VACATION!!!!

So we haven't really been able to celebrate our anniversary for the past few years, it just has always fallen on a bad week where we were either moving or at a conference or something. So we have been saving up to take a 5-year anniversary trip to make up for it! We are leaving tomorrow and will spend the next 10 days driving along the coast of maine, then taking in the awesome fall leaves throughout the countryside. We are so excited!!! I'll be sure to post pics of the trip soon!

Recipes anyone?

So I'm not really used to cooking for large groups, but for the church plant we have started meeting on sunday nights in our home and eating together. I am on the hunt for recipes that are easy, inexpensive, feed lots of people, healthy, and still taste good. Luckily a few friends in Austin hooked me up with some awesome recipes (and a kitchen aid mixer- I know, ah-mazing!) to help us out with this. I would love to keep building up my recipe collection, anyone have anything good???

Blog Remodel!

It's white. And simple. And not finished, but almost. :)

Finally!!!

Ok, so I know I have been completely MIA these past few weeks. You will be happy to hear that we are finally moved into our new house in Norman OK, and that we finally have our internet hooked up again!!! I promise to be better about posting now that we are getting settled. Pics of the new place to come soon!

And to all our friends in Austin, we miss you all already!

For Sale!

Anyone want to buy a super cute couch, oversized chair, and ottoman? We love it, but are wanting to buy a larger sectional couch from a friend that will fit more people, since once we move we will need a lot of additional seating as we begin the Church Planting process! Asking $500 for the set or best offer! :)

Winston's new "bed"

So Winston's new favorite thing is to relax for hours inside of Jeremy's gym bag. Yep, right on top of his gym shoes and sweaty t-shirts! We did nothing to give him this idea, he just started doing it. He doesn't want to lay down anywhere else!

This is his bed, the soft comfy blue mat. He will literally walk right around it and go straight for the smelly gym bag!

So close!

Wow, you guys think I'm really daring! :) Those of you who guessed tattoo were close, my sister and sister-in-law both got tattoo's, but I settled for a cute little stud on my nose instead! I've been wanting to get it pierced for forever, but have been way too scared of the needle! So glad I finally did it! I wish we had taken a pic of all three of us after. Oh well- here's one of my newly pierced nose anyway!

Guess what I did in California...

No seriously, guess!!

I am on my way back from spending the week with my family in California. Both of my sisters were there, along with me and Jeremy and my brother and his family. It's the first time since 1994 that all four of us siblings have been together! Crazy, I know. So of course we had to do something memorable. Leave a comment with your best guess, I'll post a pic with the answer soon!

Happy guessing!

Gosh it's been a while!

Ok ok, I know. I've completely slacked off on the Hager Fam blog! Here's a quick update on what we have been up to. Well, more like things we would love prayer for!

First, Church planting!!! August is getting closer and closer, and we still have a lot to do to get ready! We are about to start the exciting process of fundraising, please pray for us in this!!!

Second, my sweet grandpa passed away the other week. He lived a long life of 87 years, but came down with pneumonia and his body just couldn't fight it off. The very same night, my dog Rusty also passed away from a tumor. She was 16 years old- my family got her from the pound when I was in middle school- so she lived a long full life as well. Needless to say, it was a very sad week. We will be traveling out to California next week for a memorial for my grandpa and to spend time with family.

And last, on a more positive note, we have found a new fertility specialist that is helping us get to the bottom of why we haven't been able to start a family yet. He is great, and we are feeling very optimistic about everything! Please pray for us that God would bless us soon with a healthy pregnancy, but even more pray that we would desire God's will above our own, and that we will continue to trust Him with our future even if we are never able to conceive.

Well, that about does it! I'll try not to wait a month and a half before posting again!!!

new photography blog!!!

So a while back I started a photography blog, but it just wasn't working out for me. So I finally got a new blog to post all my favorite pics from photo sessions! Check it out...

nicolehagerphotography.com/blog

There's not much on it yet, but I'll be better about posting on it now... promise!

Oh Winston...

This is what Winston does when its cold outside. That's a space heater he's sitting in front of in case you couldn't tell!

He'll keep moving around so that every angle of his face gets as much heat as possible.

He always has to be actually pressed up against it, it's hilarious!

Hawaii!

We just got back from spending a week in beautiful hawaii with Jeremy's family! His dad and stepmom were so generous in treating us to a great vacation. Here are some of the highlights!

Here we are at the beach in front of Mama's Fish House. Great food and of course you can't beat the scenery!

Here's the whole group. From the left, Jeremy & Nicole, Morgan & Jeff (Jeremy's brother and his wife), Jeremy's Dad Bo and Stepmom Dottie, and then Dottie's daughter Ashley and her boyfriend Brian.

Here's the sunset from the balcony of our condo. Seriously, it doesn't get much better than this!!

We got to go whale watching. It was definitely one of my favorite parts of the trip.

This one swam right up to our boat, Jeremy got this great pic when the whale was about 15 feet from us!

A little bit of Hawaiian flair...

Us eating at another amazing restaurant. Yum!

We got up a 3:45 am (yikes!) to drive to the other side of Maui and take a sunrise bike ride.

Once the sun was up we put on our gear and headed down the mountain!

At the black sand beach the sand is made of volcanic rock that has been ground up really fine.

Of course there were amazing waterfalls!

And scenery that looks like a painting.

Here we all are again on our last day. Thanks so much Bo and Dottie!!!