Snow and Snuggie fights

Thanks everyone for a wonderful Christmas!  We had lots of fun, even white knuckle driving to Richardson in the snow.  Emma and Bubba still beat everyone by spending 24 hours to get home, should have been a five hour drive.  We had fun with the gift exchange, top steals... the snuggie and cute Christmas ceramic bowl and whisk.  But the best gift, with expressions, was the shock wave pen.  You pressed it and got quite a shock.

Dinner with five courses on Christmas was shrimp cocktail, roasted red pepper soup, tortellini pasta salad, pork loin and vegetables, dessert was a buffet!  Thanks Melissa, Sean, Lynley, Ann Marie and Michael for helping serve the different courses.  

At the last minute I ordered monograms for the girls and had fun finding things to put the on.  See etsy.com and search vinyl car monograms. $4.00!  Sorry, baby Jesus ended up covered by snow.  Love my bronze nativity set.

Merry White Christmas! Dallas, 3 inches of snow!

Merry Christmas!  Shared the holiday with Nickie, Norene, Karl and Chris... Plus Christmas Eve at Joanie's with Sydney, Lynn, Lynley and me.  Took twice as long to get there after church, but had a wonderful time with family and great food!  This picture is Christmas morning and the snow is already melting. Nickie enjoyed her first white Christmas in 84 years.  She spent early morning just lying in bed and watching the wintry white landscape.  More pictures to follow... dinner and gift exchange at our house tonight.  Melissa and Sean, Ann Marie and Michael, Emma, Bubba and Corbin will be joining the group.  Emma and Bubba got stuck in Oklahoma for 24 hours in the storm.  Yawhoo they are here!

Reasons to be a teacher

Melissa and Ann Marie start their Christmas two weeks off this afternoon.  One of the many great reasons to teach.  Spring Break, Christmas Break and SUMMER!!  The kids too of course.  Melissa and Sean volunteer as Make a Wish sponsors.  Moises was one of her students last year that they were able help his family by being their Make a Wish sponsor.  Between extra fund raisers at Melissa's school, one at Ann Marie's school for Moises as well, they raised over $3000.00 to help this family meet their extra needs during Moises cancer treatment.  He is well this year and back in school.  Make a Wish sent them one week ago to Disney World for 5 days.  He is pictured above with his Mom and little sister at the Make a Wish send off party in his classroom.  They are a family of six.

Ann Marie took her students out in the snow earlier this month.  Doesn't happen very often in Texas, so the first thing they did was put their coats back on to go run and play outside before the snow was gone.  The snow probably didn't last past 10:00 in the morning or as soon as the sun came out.

Lynley - four finals down one to go...

Lynley has taken four of her 5 finals and will take her last one for this semester on Wednesday morning.  She is scheduled to work at her job on Wednesday night and she will be home on Thursday!  She can't wait and we can't wait as well.  I have done some more decorating so the house is as festive as it can be when she arrives.

Still wating for Lynley to come home and decorate the tree!  I put only lights and the topper on.  But, I did get to start wrapping presents.  Lynley will be home on the 16th!  Nickie, Mom, Karl and Chris come in on the 24th!  Time for me to get the grocery list ready.  Possibly 17 for dinner on Christmas day.  Will add the finished tree pictures after Lynley and I finish the decorations.