First Big 2009 Snowfall

Snow=Happy Kids!!

GNO Christmas Dinner

Michele, Brooke, Gretel, Margaret, Mary and me!

I had to get a picture this year of all these fabulous girls who I have known basically my whole life. Every year I forget my camera and so happy I didn't this time. We started a tradition a number of years back where we have a nice sit down dinner during the holidays. It is alway's so much fun. I am so thankful for these girls. We always have a lot of good laughs. Lots of fun memories......especially because we have all been great buddies since we were like 5 years old. Before we know it we will be sitting around the table with wrinkled faces and gray hair talking about how we remember having conversations about kid's who spill bottles of honey on recently cleaned carpet! :-) Good times!!

Mr. C's Birthday

Mr. "C" turned 7 last week! He was off track so we got him for the whole day. The night before his birthday we told him he could pick any restaurant to go eat at and he picked Tepanyaki. He loves, loves, loves the noodles there. His meal consisted of soup, salad, and noodles and he was in heaven. He opened his presents that evening and got a skateboard, PS3 Madden 2010 NFL game, and a puzzle. He was one happy kid!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBA!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!

A couple day's after his birthday we had his party with friends. He was so excited for this day as he has only had one other birthday party. He really wanted a Star Wars party so we did a little "Jedi Training", had chocolate donuts, opened presents and did a Darth Vader pinata. He had tons of fun being with his friends.

"C" blowing out his candles.

The whole gang!!

Trick-or-Treating

"W" as a Skeleton Bride, "C" as a Skeleton Pirate, and "B" as a Race Car Driver.

The whole Trick-or-Treating Gang!!!

Halloween Fun at Preschool

"B" as Jeff Gordon the Nascar Driver

Pumpkin Carving

Girl's Trip to San Antonio

A couple weeks ago I got to spend 5 day's with two of my favorite people!!! A third favorite person was unable to be with us and has already been warned that she MAY NOT miss another girl's trip in the future.....right Mar? We had a terrific time and can't wait to do it again!!!!
The reason for this trip unfortunately has to do with our age and the fact that one of these gals lives out of state which means we don't get to see her very often. We said a number of years back that when we turned a certain age we would take a girls trip. It was exciting that the time finally arrived but depressing that we reached this particular age soooooo fast. But hey.....we definitely made the most of it!!!


Had to get a picture in front of the Alamo. It was smokin' hot and humid on this particular day and we were sweating like pigs.....and frankly quite miserable. I don't know how people stand the humidity!!! Thankfully we had 3 great days with hardly any humidity at the end of our trip. The two older folks in the picture are my hubby's uncle and aunt. They were kind enough to let us stay in their home and drive us around all day everyday. They were incredibly generous!!!!

Standing at the Riverwalk. We took the little boat ride and went in a few of the shops.

San Antonio Temple

Do we look like we are in highschool or what???? Uncle "J" loves cars and took tons of photo's and video of us posing and sitting in them. We definitely had a good laugh and thought I had better share at least one of the pictures. I'm a bit nervous as to what he plan's to do with the video.

I wish I had taken more pictures of our trip but the Alamo, Riverwalk and the Temple is pretty much all we did other than shopped, shopped, shopped!! I didn't really want to carry my camera around while we did that.....then I wouldn't be able to carry as many bags. :-) We went to an outlet mall that had 300 stores....so between all of us we had a trunk full of stuff. We were literally there all day. We also spent an afternoon in a quaint town called Fredrichsberg. We also took a day and got massages and pedicures and then saw a movie. We needed a day like that after all the shopping. :-) Thanks to my awesome hubby for being mom for a few days!!!