Christmas in Texas!

First stop- HOUSTON- to visit my sister, Leigh.


Leigh with her granddaughter, Ansara Michelle


Michael's son and his family came for a visit.


My cousin, Monita, came up to Houston with her kids.


Leigh's new cat, DC (Darn Cat!)

On to DALLAS!


Fun with Jenna and Reagan!




Ian and I took the girls to the Dallas Stars Hockey game. Best seats ever!!! Thanks Ian!


We went to see Santa.


It snowed on Christmas Eve!


The girls decorated a gingerbread house.


Jenna checking out one of her Christmas gifts.


Christmas morning fun for Reagan!


My cousin, Vicki, and her family came to see us at Ian's house.


My cousin, Grace, came too for the visit-


Ian and Anayansi when we went out to great Mexican lunch.


I went to Grace's to see her daughters and their families.


I loved my visit with Ian and his beautiful family!

Christmas at Work!

This past week at work has been crazy. Fun celebrating the holidays and stressful getting ready to be gone for 10 days. We took goodies to some of the departments that we work closely with. It was great to connect the faces to the voices we talk to on the phone every day. Then we had our own party. After eating goodies all morning we went to lunch at the Olive Garden. As much as I whine about work I really do love the people I work with.


Here we are getting ready to go downstairs with some goodies.


These are the provisioning specialists that type our orders.


Then we went to see the testers that help us implement. This is Naomi with Lynn and I.


This is my boss, Debbi, opening her gift in the "stealing" game.


Lynn and Lisa having fun at the gift exchange.


Theresa, Anna and Marv


Here is Michael opening the gift that I ended up stealing from him!!!!


Lynn loves her COZEEE!!!!


Here are Yvonne, Jamie, Chris and Lynn at lunch at the Olive Garden!

Now I am off to Texas to see my sister, Leigh, and to see Ian and his family. I can't wait!!!

Early Christmas in Pleasanton

I get 2 Christmases this year! I had fun with McKenzie and Brynn pretending it was Christmas so that they could open my presents. Not really the same as Christmas morning but still fun. Brynn was hilarious. She loved everything squealing with delight. So cute! McKenzie had fun handing out the gifts, reading the name tags. She wanted to play with everything. I just love being able to see them smile and enjoy the surprises of Christmas.

Here He Comes!!

Looking through the eyes of a four year old makes Christmas so much more fun! I went with Brooke's family to get their tree and then we went to Pleasanton's Christmas Parade! Brynn was excited cause Kenzie was excited. But McKenzie was beyond excited. We went to the same tree lot that I always took my kids to. It was very nostalgic for me to shop for a tree there. The difference was I always made the kids go pick one out in the Douglas Fir section cause that was all I could afford. This time we were in the Noble Fir section. Those trees were beautiful!! Brooke was true to form- having a hard time making up her mind!! But they found the perfect tree and it turned out magical.

We thought this was the one but it was not to be!!


McKenzie was trying to keep Brynn from running off!!!


The end result- don't you agree it is magical??!!

Then we went downtown for the parade and mainly to see Santa at the end of the parade. Watching McKenzie go ballistic over waiting for Santa at the end of the parade was worth enduring the freezing cold for over 2 hours! As we were leaving- and could hardly walk from being frozen- all she could say was "That was so much fun! I don't want to go home!" I got fun pictures from the parade- but didn't get one of Santa..... Sorry Kenz. We were having too much fun watching you.


Here is McKenzie waiting for Santa to come down the street!


Brynn had fun with the glow in the dark necklaces!


Here he comes!!!!

Movie Quotes

My friend, Rick, sent this to me. I love movies almost as much as he does. Just fun to watch- even though it is about 11 minutes..... I couldn't get it to post on Facebook correctly so not as many will see this but I loved it!