Saturday, November 29, 2008

Another Turkey day come and gone...

Well it's been another great Thanksgiving! This year we were at Nana and Poppy's house, without Aunt Mimi (she was in Italy, yes Italy). We had a wonderful time and great food, thanks Nana! We made a turkey day trip to Bass Pro Shop, never been, it was cool and we even got a free photo with Santa (the 4 of us, it was great). Friday found us at Sea World for the much awaited 4-D Polar Express. T was in absolute heaven!!! I have to say it was awesome, I felt like a kid again. It was 18 minutes of the best parts of a great movie, The Polar Express. We wore the funny glasses, A even kept hers on. They made it snow in the theater too. We then made our way over to see a Christmas Shamu show, it was amazing! Nothing like watching Shamu jump out of the water to Christmas music. I love Sea World! We made our way home and then today went downtown to watch the Chuy's Children Giving to Children parade. We all 4 had a wonderful time. Tonight we are relaxing watching good old college football, okay relaxing isn't really the word since we have a lot on the line with the games tonight. Thank goodness Tech beat Baylor...now we are waiting to see if somehow OSU can beat OU.
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and have told your loved ones and friends how thankful you are for them!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

It's Turkey Time

Where to start...we are off to Nana and Poppy's house for Thanksgiving. We will wake up early on Thanksgiving and do the Turkey Trot as a family (4 miles)...that's nothing, and I never thought I would say 4 miles is "nothing" haha!. T is super excited because he knows that Thanksgiving means he gets to watch his favorite movie, The Polar Express. We are going to Sea World to see the Polar Express if 4-D...T is beside himself. We are also going to the Chuy's Parade on Saturday...so needless to say it's a jam packed turkey day...I will post photos when we return.
I want to plug a great photographer...we had our family photos done for the 2nd year in a row with a great photographer named Robin Winkles. You can look her up at www.robinwinklesphotography.com. She is fabulous. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

It's just plain funny...


We went to San Antonio today to cheer on my sister who ran in her first Half Marathon! She did great by the way. On our way into the race area there was a grandma, grandpa, and two grandkids. The grandma was yelling at the grandpa "Pop, Pop" and he did not respond (he was talking on his cell phone)...the next words out of grandma's mouth had to be some of the funniest I have heard in a while...she yelled "Oh crap, he has his good ear to the phone". Just writing that makes me laugh. That line has kept me entertained all day long. I only hope you are able to enjoy it as much as I have.
Life lesson, don't use your cell phone in a crowd if you only have 1 good ear, and for goodness sakes don't piss off grandma!!!
WAY TO GO AMERS!!!

Monday, November 10, 2008

T's weekend...




Well T is now officially 4 years old! He had a great birthday weekend. Saturday we had his birthday party. He got lots of cool toys (with lots of pieces). I thought we would need 10 pizza's...lets just say we had pizza all weekend for breakfast, lunch, and dinner ;-) haha! Sunday we took T and A to the movies to see Madagascar 2. It was a very cute movie...they both did great! Who knew skittles and peanut m&m's would keep them so happy ;-). We had a lot of fun and yes I made the cake, the rocket/space shuttle cake.

Friday, November 7, 2008

A weekend for T day one...



We started T's birthday weekend today. J and I took the day off and took T for a personal tour at the fire station close to where I work. I know 2 of the fire fighters and they did such a great job of making it special for T. They blocked off an entire hour for us! We all enjoyed learning about the fire truck and how the fire house works. It really is amazing...and yes I still love firemen!!! Anyway, then we headed off to the Jumpy House (as T refers to it). We met up with the grandparents and A there...let's just say for the next hour we all felt like kids again. We got in the bouncy houses with both kiddos and had a blast! We headed off to Chuy's for lunch (yummy mexican food). This evening we met up with friends for dinner and went to a very very small carnival. Tomorrow is the big birthday party!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

It's all about the cupcake...

We have a busy next few days coming up in our household. It's T's 4th birthday this coming weekend. The festivities will start tomorrow, he is taking cupcakes to school (no I didn't make them this time...HEB did ;-). Friday we are taking him to the fire station for a personal tour, that's right I get a personal tour with a fireman, oops I mean my son get's a tour of the fire station (haha). We are also taking him to Madagascar 2 that afternoon. Saturday is his birthday party, woohoo!!! Then Sunday is the acutal birthday! What a weekend. I guess this weekend cake will be a food group for all of us ;-). Oh and yes, I will be making his birthday cake. It's a space theme so I am making a rocket ship, I will take pictures and post them after it's all said and done (hopefully it looks like a rocket, I am no Martha Stuart).

Sunday, November 2, 2008

And the score is...





33 to 39 Tech!!! That was the score from last night's *7Texas Tech v. *1Texas game. It was one heck of a game and this morning I find myself with very little voice, but it was all worth it to see Tech beat Texas! What a game!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Happy Halloween


The kids loved Halloween this year. It was the first year where A actually got to walk up to the doors and say "Trick or Treat". She and T had a blast together. A was a Texas Tech cheerleader and T was Buzz Lightyear!