Lara's Rehearsal Dinner

Tonight was the rehearsal & dinner for my sister's wedding :) I think we are ready for tomorrow!

Little Miss's North Pole Express Field Trip

Little Miss's class went on a field trip today to the North Pole Express train in Grapevine. The Grapevine Depot was decorated with thousands of lights, animated charactors, and we walked through "falling snow" (it was actually tiny bubbles from the bubble machines) on our way to board the train. Before we boarded the train we went into the holding area where we sang Christmas carols with other schools there for the field trip.

Once on board there was more singing, a story time, and a visit from the man himself - Santa Claus!

After the train ride we headed over to Nash Farms for an outdoor picnic. The kids had a great time :)

Last A&P I Study Session

A&P I Study Sessions are over! We met tonight for the last night of studying for A&P I. Our final is on Wednesday, December 8th and hopefully we are ready :) We studied Spinal Cord, Autonomic Nervous System, Special Senses (seeing, hearing, & tasting), and Endocrine System. Once the final is done we will be off for the end of the year and then back at the studying for A&P II!

Here is the sign that was up at our table when we arrived to study tonight :)

Christmas Piano Recital 2010

The Christmas Piano Recital was fabulous :) The kids did great! This was Little Man's first time to participate and he was super excited. Little Man played "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" and "Up on the Housetop". Little Miss played "We Three Kings of Orient Are" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". We then went back to their teacher's house for hot cocoa, cookies, and end of the year awards.

Bold Fresh Tour

I win everything. It's true. To illustrate my point I'll tell you how Dad and I were able to go and see Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly on tour yesterday.

So a couple of months ago the talk radio station that I listen to offered caller number 10 two free tickets to the Beaujolais Wine Festival (tickets valued at $55 each). I called in and won the tickets. My husband was not able to go with me because he had a hunting trip scheduled that weekend so my sister and I went together. It was great. There was a lot of wine to taste and fabulous local restaurants had samples of their food. Awesome night!

My talk radio station was one of the sponsors so I headed to their table to thank them for the tickets to the festival. I talked to the guy for a minute and he asked me if I was a regular listener. I told him that I was an all day listener (which is true because I'm a talk radio nerd :) ) and that I listened to Jeff Bolton in the morning, followed by Glenn Beck, then Dave Ramsey, and finally Chris Croc. Once I got through the names he then asked if I would like tickets to the Bill O'Reilly/Glenn Beck Bold Fresh Tour show that was coming in a couple of weeks! Heck ya I do :)

So that's how Dad and I ended up at the Bold Fresh Tour this afternoon :)

It was a great show!!

Texas Tech Football!!

This past weekend we finally got to take the kids to see a Texas Tech football game live. It was a bit anticlimatic for the kids but Ryan and I had a blast!

We drove to Lubbock on Saturday morning and got in around 3pm. The kids were super excited already to be staying in a hotel and went nuts when we got to the hotel room and found that our Christmas elf, Frank, had followed us there! Frank shows up the day after Thanksgiving and comes to our house to watch the kiddos behavior and to listen to their Christmas requests. He travels back to the North Pole each night to update Santa and reappears every morning in a different location in our house. The kids LOVE this tradition and so do we!

It was a cold afternoon in Lubbock and the weather was clear and cold for the game so once we got settled into our hotel we piled on the clothing layers and headed out to check out campus and find a great place to park the car for the evening. We lucked out when a police officer doing traffic duty let us park really close to the stadium (in exchange for buying him a cup of coffee - which we did gladly because it was cold outside!).

The game was great although the novelty wore off pretty quickly for the kids and we ended up leaving at half time because they we too cold!

On the way home we went through Abilene so that we could visit with Ryan's grandmother for a couple of hours.

Excellent trip! Go Red Raiders!

What are you thankful for?

Happy Thanksgiving 2010