Merry Christmas from the Heptigs!

Reason for the season

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Christmas Greetings!

Hello family & Friends!

Wow what a year it has been. For those of you who missed this memo, it has been a BIG year. The most notable highlight is I finally graduated on May 1, 2009 from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee. I am happy to finally be done with school, it has been a long journey and I am happy to say that you can officially call me Dr. Christina Heptig. It does seem surreal to be called Dr. Heptig on a daily basis. With that being said I was offered an amazing job with The EyeDoctors. I started officially as Dr. Heptig in July, after passing my Kansas boards, and I primarily work in their Junction City office but also their two Topeka offices. And to top all of that off I turned 30th in October!

I moved back to Manhattan, KS in June. It is hard to believe it has been six years since I lived here and boy has the city expanded and changed. I live in a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath townhome on the West side of town. Plenty of room for visitors, so please stop by and stay a while!

It is strange to think that I have free time, something that I have not had much of the past few years. I continue to love to bake & cook for anyone and everyone. At the end of September I started working out with a personal trainer, hard to believe that I like the pain and discomfort that comes with it but I feel stronger and healthier than ever. I try to go to the gym at least four times a week but ideally like to shoot for six. I obviously still love to cheer on the Kansas State Wildcats. I enjoy blogging, obviously! My most favorite past-time undoubtedly has to be be traveling. I am happy to say that I have been out to see my double cousin Tami & her husband Carl three times this year, I have been to Arkansas to visit friends a couple times, Atlanta for a conference and a few other places here and there in between. I would like to visit Europe in the near future.

My family also got a new addition, my brother and his wife welcomed another baby girl, Julia in November. I certainly have a lot to be grateful for this year. 2009 has been great and I am expecting 2010 to be just as wonderful. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!

Much love, Christie

More gifts!

Today was my first day back in my Junction City office since a week ago today. I was pleasantly surprised not to find stacks of paperwork but stacks of gifts in my office when I got there! I love gifts :)

I was super excited to open this up. Nothing but good things come from Dean & Deluca :)
Yummy!

And then this! Are you freaking kidding me?? I will never develop pictures again. Oh wait, I nearly do that now :)

Gift for Grandma

I just finished my Grandma's Christmas gift. I can only imagine how I would get in trouble if I got her a material gift so a food gift is safe :) Who would turn down food? I am delivering it on my way home for Christmas on Thursday. Can't wait to see her! Hope she likes the roast beef, it is the dinner I always remember her making when we would go and visit.

Day 1 of Tangee & Jason's wedding

I have been traveling a lot in the past week. Lucky me, I have my normal day off in the week to catch up on all that I have been putting off :) First I wanted to share pictures of my extended weekend trip to Chattanooga, TN for my friends', Tangee & Jason, wedding.

It was a jam packed filled weekend and so good to catch up with friends that I have not see since May. I left Thursday after work and met up with Erin & Jeff. We drove (or rather, Jeff drove) to St. Louis that night and left around 9:30 Friday morning for TN.

When we arrived in Chattanooga we quickly got ready for diner. We were invited to the rehearsal dinner at Easy Bistro. It was amazing. I am still thinking about that trigger fish & pot roast!
The decor was so cool! Loved the painted trees and the moldings were amazing.

Erin & me with the bride & groom, Tangee & Jason.

Me, Tangee (the beautiful bride) and Erin

Sara & Connie

Here is a picture of my new do, I decided to go dark and get rid of the blonde for a little bit. What do you think?

Erin & me Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor :)

More pictures to come. Warning... We complied all of them and had over 500 from the weekend. We got smart for the actual wedding and only used 1 camera.

Happy Birthday Amber!

A very happy birthday wish to my friend Amber! It is her 30th birthday today. Wish I could be there to help celebrate today but I guess we will have to wait for January and our big trip to celebrate. Have an awesome day and make sure Mike spoils you.

It's Party time!

I am so freaking excited about today! After work I am headed to KC to meet up with my friends Erin & Jeff & then we are loading up in the car to drive to Chattanooga, TN!!! Our friends Tangee & Jason are getting married on Saturday. I wasn't sure if I was going to get to go earlier this year but since I had some extra vacation time, I didn't want to pass up the opportunity. I can't wait to see Tangee all dressed up in her bridal fare :) And men just look handsome in a tux and I am sure Jason will fit the part well.

It is also going to be the first time I have seen Tangee, Sara, Jill & Connie since graduation. Erin I see each other frequently but still looking forward to getting to spend time with her and Jeff :) I wish I were on my computer at home so I could post a picture of Tangee and Jason, but I am at work. I am sure I will have plenty of pictures to post of the weekend, so stay tuned! This day isn't going fast enough!