Merry Christmas 2010

Last night we celebrated Christmas with my father-in-law and Michael's sister and her family. We had a nice time and when we got home Dylan played his new Wii game. It is called the Michael Jackson Experience and it even came with a white glove. Here is Dylan dancing and learning the moves to one of the songs. If you look closely you will see Michael Jackson on the TV and Dylan with his white glove on trying to dance like him.

Here is Cass and Dylan this morning sitting at the top of the stairs waiting for permission to come downstairs to see if Santa had stopped by.

Santa left Dylan a NFL training camp game for the Wii, Air Jordan socks, book light, and lots of other fun stuff. Santa left Cass PUMA shoes, lip gloss, nail polish, fuzzy socks and lots of cool stuff.

Cass was extremely excited to see PUMA shoes and she yelled "They are so amazing."

Dylan and his NFL Training Camp game

Michael received a very special homemade gift. Cass made him a metal toolbox and inside was a homemade screwdriver. She was very proud and daddy loved it!!!!

I surprised Michael with this "Guy Fieri" hat. He has not taken it off since he put it on this morning.
I got a panini maker, new hand mixer, lap desk so I can sit in my chair and play on my iPad, earphones for my iPad, new winter coat and lots of other little goodies.

After eating ice cream caramel cinnamon rolls, egg casserole and then opening all of our gifts we went to the 3D movie "Gulliver 's Travels". Seeing mom and dad in 3D glasses made my day!!!

This evening everyone has been playing with their new stuff and we had a delicious dinner. We had stuffed jalapenos, shrimp cocktail, grilled steak, twice baked potatoes and pecan pie. We had a wonderful Christmas! Thanks mom and dad for sharing such a great day with us.

Happy First Day of Winter

Cass and I had a girls only outing and we got our nails done. Michael and Dylan went out for lunch while we were out having fun.

My friend Mary gave me this wonderful gift. It was Wintertime Chili mix and all of the ingredients so I thought I would make it on the first day of winter. It was very good!!!!! Thanks Mary!

I also made a brownie fudge pecan pie. I hope it is good!

Date Night with Ann and Ricky

Tonight we ate dinner at Smokin' Guns BBQ. Since I live with an award winning BBQ master I usually do not like to go eat BBQ. The pork sandwich was really good and I loved the french fries. Michael was quite proud to see they had a 4th place ribbon for pork from the 2005 competition in Leavenworth because that was the year he won 3rd in pork. (Maybe we should own a BBQ joint) After dinner we enjoyed driving around looking at Christmas lights and even drove through the Plaza. What a fun-filled evening!!! Can't wait for our next date!

Weekly Update

I was so excited when I found this t-shirt for Michael. It says "Lighting Engineer".

You can not see this picture very well but I had to post it anyway. We had a tour bus in front of our house watching our Christmas lights. Michael was EXTREMELY happy and proud.

We had our last day of work yesterday and now we are off for two weeks!!!!! I am so happy!!!

Some people wore silly holiday outfits for the staff meeting but the best was my friend Katie's outfit.

After the meeting I went to Dylan's market day. He made little basketball goal games to sell. He made a profit of $28 and he was very excited. (They did not use real money)

After a busy and fun day Michael took me to go see "The Fighter" and I really enjoyed it. Yay for winter break!!

Weekend Extravaganza

My annual shopping day with my friends Ann and Sheila was on Friday. NO WORK AND ALL PLAY!!! We started the day off at 7:45am and got home at 9:10pm. We were exhausted!!!

Starbucks was our first stop but we ate breakfast at the Kolache Factory. It was really good!

After the 12 hour mark we stopped but Lukas Liquor and they were giving free samples.

Fun!!!

Wow, look at all of the presents!!

I had my mom, dad, and my nieces waiting for me when I got home from the long shopping day.

It was so much fun to have them all there. Yasmine, Keeley, and Mikayla were sure excited to see me.

Later that evening I caught Keeley trimming her toenails. YUCK!

Saturday morning the whole gang was cuddled up watching TV.

After more shopping with my mom and sister we had our family Christmas. We had my favorite meal: Turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, rolls and cream cheese corn.

New pajamas!

Opening presents

We had such a wonderful weekend! This afternoon Dylan had another preseason game and they won by 7 points. Dylan made a beautiful lay-up. I have 5 more days until winter break! Yay!!!!

Best Onion Rings Ever!!

When Michael is gone we try to go out to eat at least once. This time we invited Katie and her niece Finley. We enjoy little dates with them so we decided to go to Snak Shack (used to be known as Shake Shack).

Best onion rings on earth!!!

Dylan, Finley and Cass

Finley just chillin out while eating her hamburger

Thanks guys it was a fun outing!

The Difference Between Cass and Dylan

Cass on a Sunday afternoon.

This is what Dylan did on a Sunday afternoon! (made a plan on paper for a light show and then actually did it)

I love them both so much!