Christmas 2008

OUT WITH THE OLD.......

....and bring on the new, motorcycle that is. Ray's new Harley arrived on my birthday(DEC 19)....happy birthday to me!

This shirt is one of Ray's Christmas presents, he loves it!

Christmas parties at school

Tray and Rylee had their parties at school today. They "sugar them up" and then let you take them home-Thanks!

I'm so relieved!!

I have finished this semester. I took 13 hours this semester and I happy to say that this semester is finally over. (This was my first semester on campus. Before this semester, I took a few classes over the Internet.) I actually enjoyed it and meet some new friends. I made four A's and one B. (I'm hoping the B will change, before I took the final I had a 87 average, I'm hoping that I did well enough on the final to make an A) I have a grand total of 45 hours now!! And many more to go!!! Hooray for me :)

Amazing!!!!

Thursday we woke up to a winter wonderland-Southeast Texas style! It actually snowed here. I heard that it hasn't snowed here since the 80's.(I wouldn't know:)) Our kids have wanted to see snow so bad. They know that it sometimes snows back home but we have told them its just too hot here for it to snow.(Ray seems to think that hell has froze over because of our new president elect. LOL) Rylee said, "I can't believe it actually snowed here in Silsbee, Texas." Tray's internal snow alarm clock must of woke him up because he woke up on his own then woke Triston & Rylee up to tell them the good news. Needless to say it was an exciting morning at the Ruggles house. I must say that we were totally unprepared. I couldn't find gloves and some of us don't even own gloves so some of the kids including me had to wear socks as gloves.(Ghetto) They didn't have to be at school until 10am. It's what Sponge Bob says.....ITS THE BEST DAY EVER!(Ray took a picture of almost everything but the kids until the camera died! So that why there is like one picture of the kids and no picture of our snowman.)

A Wise Man, An Angel, & A Present Giver

....Tray was a wise man, Rylee was an angel, and Triston was a present giver at the Christmas program at church today. Aren't they cute? Triston wasn't originally asked to be in the program but after he saw Tray & Rylee's cool costumes he decided he wanted to be in the program. He was a little disappointed that his costume only consisted of a halo. Better luck next time, Triston.(Can't take any credit for the costumes-some ladies in our ward did an excellent job at creating and making them.)

Karate Kid

Triston got his karate uniform today and he is sooooo proud of it. Doesn't he look so cute. (The pose was his idea.) He has been taking karate since September but he reminded me the other day that he still didn't have a uniform yet, so I took care of that today. So its official-all three of the Ruggles kids are karate kids. BEWARE!

I've turned cowgirl

Ray bought me my first pair of boots this weekend. (Early birthday/Christmas present)Sadly, I've lived in Texas my whole life and have never owned a pair of western boots. I'm officially a cowgirl. Of course,I had to buy a pair of western pants, too. I couldn't bring myself to spend $80-$90 on a belt. Maybe next time. I can't believe how expensive western clothes are. So, here is a requested pic of me in my western get-up. Triston took the picture of me this morning before we headed off to school. What do you think, maybe I'll even put a sticker on the back of my hummer that says "cowgirl up" - NOT!

The Ruggles decorated their ghetto-fabulous Christmas tree!

We decorated our ghetto Christmas tree for family home evening tonight. I call our tree ghetto because its a pre-lit tree but none of the lights wanted to work so I went to Walmart today and bought strands of lights to put on our tree that already has lights that don't work. Old lights + new lights on top of = ghetto fabulous. The kids were so excited! And they actually think that it looks pretty and that all that matters, right?