Two great Christmas finds

Today I found an ornament for my ornament exchange. I know this is early for me, I usually wait to the day of. I thouhgt it was so cute. It is an angel made out of a jingle bell for the body and a marble for the head. And I found a Christmas book for the book club this month. This month's book is a Christmas book of our choice. My sister-in-law told me about "The Christmas Sweater". She said it was on the best sellers list and that it was selling out. Sam's had a few copies left. I can wait to read it but I still haven't finished "The Secret Life of Bees". Stephanie, you should be so proud of me. Love you too.

Do you remember?

Rylee does the same things that I did when I was a little girl. I took a video of her singing a song and dancing. This was so familar to me that I joined in singing and dancing with her when she first performed it for me-lol. Tiffany & Chrissy, did we do this when we were little? What about her hair, remember when mom used to braid our hair and we would sleep with it braided and when we took the braids out in the morning-it was crimpy!(And people only thought we owned a crimping iron!) This is Rylee's new thing. She loves it!

Weekend Get Away

This weekend, we went to San Antonio to take advantage of our Sea World season passes and relax. Sea World is awesome this time of the world. I highly recommend it. I really liked the fake snow that was falling as we entered Sea World. It really got me in the Christmas spirit with all the Christmas decorations and Christmas music playing. Not to mention, the lines weren't long and we got awesome sitting at all the shows. I liked the 4D movie of the Polar Express. We loved our 4 star hotel-thanks to priceline.com... baby. We ate at this great Italian restaurant for dinner last night. Yum Yum. A man serenaded us with his keyboard as we ate. He invited the kids to help him play. Rylee took him up on it. (That, of course is no surprise to anyone that knows Rylee). She must have done very well, she got a nice applause from the audience.

Crazy Girl

I left this picture out of my Twilight post.(Can't imagine why???? Maybe I was tired or something.) This is the girl that entertained us before the show. It is a really bad picture. Some one called her crazy girl and that's what I titled my post.

Girls Night Out

Yes, it is 3am and I'm posting. I just got home from a girls night out. My friends Gayle and Lisa, fellow Twilight addicts, started our night at my house for pictures. Aren't our shirts cute? They say, team Edward cause Jacob doesn't sparkle.If you read the book, you get it if you don't READ THE BOOK! Then we went to the book club where we discussed Twilight & The Secret Life of Bees. Next, we ate at Cheddar's and then to the movies. Some how Gayle was able to purchase 3 tickets to the 12:01 am showing of Twilight. We got there two hours early fearing that we wouldn't be able to sit together. I must say that two hour wait was interesting to say the least. A girl, whom I took a picture of, entertained us for a while asking silly questions like how old was the oldest person and how old was the youngest, what everyone did for a living, was anyone in college, etc, etc, etc. It got real annoying after awhile. The guy in front of me ask for hand sanitizer and then lite his hand on fire with a lighter. Anyways to the movie.......At first, it was cheesy but got better.The actress who played Bella blinked her eyes way to much. The actor who played Edward became more handsome as the movie progressed. I loved the actors & actress who played Esme, Rosalie, Emmet, Jasper and Alice. I didn't like the choices for Carlise and Charlie. All in all, I would give it two thumbs up. So there is my review. Good night.

Mel's b-day party

My family unexpectedly reunited this weekend for a very sad occasion. My cousin Max died and his funeral was yesterday. My sis-in law's birthday was Thursday so we thought it would be fun to make her a cake and have a surprise party. The cake wasn't beautiful and really didn't taste good but we had fun scheming up a surprise princess party for her compete with princess crowns, plates, and stickers. Mel, we love you and are you thankful that you are part of our crazy, disfunctional fam-lol.

Halloween

I took the kids to the ward party last night. I had decided that I would not decorate my trunk this year because Ray had to work an extra job. We have decorated our trunk every year since we have been in the Silsbee ward but Ray is the master mind behind it every year. At the last minute, I decided that I would have a game at my trunk and hand out candy. I came up with a game that the kids had to hit the skeleton head in the center of the bullseye with a nerf gun bullet. I'm glad I did it. I think the kids enjoyed it. I handed out a special surprise for those you hit the skeleton head on the first try.

Trick or Treating at Lamar

Triston trick or treated on campus at Lamar on Friday. He had so much fun. He got tons of candy.Their first candy bag got so heavy that we had to leave them behind and a parent picked them up afterwards. I volunteered to help out. Each adult had to keep up with a few children. The children were really good. We had no escapees. We walked to about 7 different building/departments on campus. Some of the staff even dressed up in costumes to hand out candy. Triston said it was awesome.