Hello! I hope this post finds you doing well and enjoying the holiday season. Can you believe we only have a week until Christmas?! Are all of your Christmas decorations up? Have you gotten your shopping done? Wrapped all the presents?
Quite a bit has happened at the Reischman residence these past few weeks. Everyone from both sides of my family came over for Thanksgiving lunch and dinner. Nothing is more exciting than having everyone together to spend the day with one another. It's my favorite time of the year! :) We finally have our Christmas trees and décor up and lights on the house! (Dad wasn't too happy about having to do this (; haha.)
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| Hanging out at the house! |
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| Rolen with his gun! He had so much fun squirrel hunting. :) |
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| Sarah, mom, Kat and myself! |
We had our Annual Reischman Christmas Tea last Sunday. All of the women on my dad's side get together and enjoy each others company before the busy holiday season kicks off. Every year we donate to a local organization (Birth Right, Salvation Army, etc.) I look forward to it every year!
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| The Reischman gals! |
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| Mom and Gwen! :) |
I have finally completed the Mass Communications program at Southeast! One step closer to graduating in May! Ekkkk. :) A couple weeks ago, the team I worked with pitched our campaign to the Show Me Center (this was our client.) It was such a great experience to work with my colleagues and a client I was extremely familiar with. What I loved most about this entire process was receiving feedback from the client and our professors. Nothing is more reassuring than your professors telling you that you're going to be alright and they know "you are ready." One more semester to go and I will be walking across that stage! :D
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| These fabulous people were some of the best to work with! :) |
This past weekend my sister, Sarah, and I made our way up to St. Louis to run in the Hot Chocolate 5K. Even though it's only 3 miles, we felt it necessary to train since we both have not ran a full 5K since high school. Well training started in November and lasted roughly every other three days. Before the race, we haven't ran in over two weeks. Sooo, to say the least we had no clue how this race was going to end. Luckily, we pulled through and finished without walking (which was our initial goal.) It was such a blast! Although we ran at 7:30 in the morning, the atmosphere of everyone around us was so fun and energetic!
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| Before the race, by the start line! |
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| After the race! We were tired. :) |
If you know my sister at all, she's got a sweet tooth like nobody's business. Sarah could probably eat sweets for every meal of the day. ;) During the race, there were stations that handed out different kinds of chocolate...holy heaven, right?? I declined the offer, but Sarah went with it. At the end of the race we received these awesome "Finisher Mugs" full of sweet goodness. I'm pretty sure I was in a sugar coma for a couple hours...
This past week I got to watch Gwen. Let me tell you, she's so precious! I cannot believe how much she's grown in the past four months. Yesterday, I caught her sucking a thumb!
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| She's going to be just like her Aunt Sue! ;) |
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| She looked up at me every time I took a picture, haha. |
Coming up this next week, we will finally get to see Becca, Josh and Isaiah...and the newest edition to the family! Or at least, Becca's tummy. :D I cannot wait for everyone to be home already! Christmas will be here in a week and then two days later I'll finally be in Europe. :)
For now, I hope you enjoy this wonderful time with the ones you love.
God Bless,
Rachel <3
