MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

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He's a LAWYER! He carries a pencil!

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To my ONE token reader...

I know I haven't posted anything for a while. You might just have to get over it right quick. Truth be told, there's not much going on right now. Just getting ready for CHRISTMAS {!!!} and whatnot. And, FYI, you probably won't get anything until after the new year. Try not to cry too hard, m'kay?

But really...

Catch you peeps next year!

{Christmas Tag}

Thanks, Becky, for tagging me! Here we go again...

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate, DEFINITELY! Egg nog is KAH KAH. {I know I didn't spell that right}

2. Do you wrap presents or bag them? Usually wrap because I like to wrap. But I will bag I'm out of time or something.

3. Colored lights or White? White, for sure!

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No.

5. When do you decorate? Whenever I get to it after Thanksgiving.

6. Favorite holiday dish? I like everything my mom makes for Christmas Sing! Rumakes, mini cherry cheesecakes, finger sandwiches, home made peanut butter cups... Really, the list could go on and on.

7. When and how did you learn about Santa? What about Santa? That he's AWESOME?!?! I've always known that.

8. How do you decorate your tree? See pix below...

The sweet weiner dog ornament Johnny and Becky gave Moki for Christmas this year. Thanks again, guys! Moki loves it!

9. Snow...love it or dread it? HATE IT. HATE IT. HATE IT. Nice to look at and that's all.

10. Can you ice skate? Like a champ, of course! Can't everyone?

11. Do you remember your favorite gift? I have a lot of great memories and have received a lot a fantastic gifts over the years, but I think I will tell you about my favorite gift I have given... It was last year and I gave April an Anne of Green Gables Trilogy DVD set. I'm not usually one to have really good ideas, but this was definitely an exception to the rule. I got the idea more than a year before I was finally able to give it to her last year because I didn't have her for Christmas that year. We used to watch Anne of Green Gables all the time when we were kids {really, who doesn't love the KUED telethons?} and we love it! The look on her face when she opened that DVD set was PRICELESS! She was jumping up and down like a little girl in the middle of the Sam's Club parking lot. It was awesome! Then some guy yelled at me for blocking the way and that sort of ruined the moment. ~sigh~

12. What is the most important part of the holidays? I love spending time with family and making new memories. I love the feeling of Christmas and I love remembering the birth of the Savior.

13. Favorite holiday dessert? Anything really. I'm especially keen on THESE right now.

14. Favorite memory? One year, I was about 10 or so, I thought it would be a really good idea to drink a lot of water before I went to bed so I would have to get up to go pee. Of course, that way, I would have a legitimate excuse for being up at that hour of the night and I could go look at my presents! I was a very sly child, you know. That also happened to be the same year my dad thought it would be a good idea to tie our door shut so we couldn't get out of our room {we always slept in the same room on Christmas Eve}. So, about 1 in the morning, my plan worked perfectly and I had to get up to go pee. My dad's plan worked perfectly also, and I couldn't get out! I'm pretty sure some banging on the door was involved and a few tears were shed because, by the time my parents got up to see what the banging was all about, I was having bladder spasms and I ALMOST peed my pants. Ah! Good memories. I have several others, but I'll have to share them with you at a later date as this post is slowly becoming longer than anticipated.

15. Do you have a special ornament? Not really any one in particular, but I really love Moki's new ornament!

16. What do you do on Christmas Eve? With the Roberts family, we usually read a new Christmas story that my mom found that year, read it, talk and mess around for a while. Then we open one present, which is always new pajamas, then argue with the parents about going to bed. We used to all sleep in the same room together and Aaron would always set his clock for the middle of the night and we would try to sneak out of our room to see what Santa brought us. We only got caught once. My dad {oh, what a funny guy!} would try to trap us in our room by tying the door shut or setting traps and stuff. HA! That never worked. We always found a way around it. The Fosters usually play games {Big Money, anyone?}, talk, laugh and eat. It's a great time! I don't know what they did differently when they were kids. {I'll have to tag Julie to find out!}

17. If you could have anything for Christmas this year what would it be? Umm... this could get interesting. A new house. Endless cash flow. Warm weather. $$$ to buy Albert a sweet sports car. The ability to make all my family and friends debt-free. A smaller bum. A new pair socks every day for the rest of my life. Oh, and world peace. Not too much to ask for, right?

18. What do you do for neighbors and friends for Christmas? I usually give my neighbors some small edible thing with some cheesy saying. Last year I gave my neighbors Snowman Poop {marshmallows} and Hot Chocolate. This year is a secret because some of you are my neighbors and that would spoil the surprise. As for really close friends; it's always different.

I tag...

April, Julie, Becky T., Alyson, Mandi, Sue, and everyone else who I forgot.

I Got End Tables!

I've never had end tables in my front room and I finally conned Albert into letting me buy some! The hard part was finding tables small enough to fit in my little space. My living room is pretty small, so I didn't get a coffee table. Maybe in our next house I can have a coffee table...

Cute, huh?

I love them!!!

Twilight Review

Again, I'm not sure why, but my computer is retarded and keep making small pictures. Whatever.

My mom and my sister went to see Twilight when we were in Texas. We're kind of dorky {would you expect anything different?} and we all got Twilight shirts and wore them to the movie! My shirt is a tribute to Carlisle and I still think he's way hotter than Edward after seeing the movie. I chose well.

Let me first just say that OVERALL I really like it. More than I expected {I've seen it twice now and the second time I went BY MYSELF like the big loser I am}. It tells basically the same story as the book and I thought Bella and Edward had fantastic chemistry on screen. I thought most of the characters were cast very well. Particularly Carlisle, Rosalie, Alice, James and Charlie.

That said, here's what I didn't like.....
The whole thing felt very low-budget. I don't know if it was a low-budget film or if that's just how it was supposed to be. I still maintain my opinion that they could have cast a better Edward. He was really the only character I didn't think was cast well. But that's just me. Others will disagree (Lowanna). I hate how Edward calls Bella "Spider Monkey". Irritating and cheesy. I didn't like how they introduced Jacob. It felt very awkward and forced. I also didn't like the scene in the meadow. Not like the book at all. Jasper's character didn't match the one I have in my head at all. I understand why he always looked terrified, but I had him pictured in my mind to always look very peaceful and serene. Different ideas, I guess. I also thought the baseball scene and after when they almost fight the other 3 vampires was kind of cheesy, but it was kind of that way in the book, too. That's all.

What did you all think about the movie? Is my opinion wrong?

Texas/Thanksgiving 2008

I'm not sure why, but my computer keeps uploading all my pix exactly backwards of how I try load them. Grrrr...

Anyway... Here are my pictures from our trip to Texas! YAY! I know you've all been waiting so patiently. Not all of them are on here because my dear sweet sister APRIL used a bunch of my pix on her blog, AND pretty much gave the entire narrative of our trip. SO. Y'all can just link to her blog for the play-by-play. I'll just give little tid-bits here and call it good.

The beach outside our condo in Port Aransas.

Mi Papa in all his awesomeness.

Mi Hubby and Granty in the car on the way to get some lunch at Whataburger!

My dorky, I mean, dear sweet sister who's blog you need link to.

Don't forget Peck in the backseat.

A pelican.

Mi familia chillaxin' on the jetty and watching the dolphins.

Some fish some guys on the jetty caught. Probably about the size of a football and maybe 2 inches thick with some wicked spines on the back.

Said dolphins.

The same dolphins.
I have about 18 of almost the exact same picture. Not sure why.

My awesome Pappy, again, in his sweet vacation shirt!

Mi Madre in the back of the car. She and Mikkele rode here because we were short on seating. Good thing she's short so she could fit back there!
Just kidding, Mom!

April and Granty giving Adam 2 eyebrows instead of 1.

It's looking better!

He loved it. Don't worry.

Albert and Johnny got to go fishing at Ken and Robin's river house in Wimberly.

Too bad it was too cold to get in.

Albert and Becky hanging out down by the river.

Out of place, I know. Stupid computer.
Grant loved listening to Adam's i-pod!

I guess it wasn't too cold to get in. Johnny did!

Albert paid Johnny $5 bucks to get in the water. So he stripped down and jumped in! He claimed it wasn't too bad.

Looking for a turtle.

Still looking for the turtle.

HuckleJohnny Finn.

Overall, we had a great trip! It was great to see all the Roberts family and Johnny and Becky. Oh! April (you need to clickit!) wanted me to mention all the great eats we had! With pleasure...

We ate at some of our favorite spots...
Rudy's BBQ ~ "The worst BBQ in Texas"
El Mirasol
Taco Cabana ~ We ate there 3 times!
Whataburger
We ate at a seafood restaurant in Port Aransas (can't remember the name).
Thanksgiving with the Roberts clan.
Thanksgiving Part 2 with Ken and Robin (Jalapeno Cornbread Stuffing... mmm....)
And of course, Mom's house! She made us some scrumptious German food, salmon, and strawberry waffels upon request from all of us spoiled kids!

No wonder we all gain a bunch of weight whenever we go to Texas. The food is so good!

Thanks, again, to Mom and Dad for having us and for taking us to the coast! It was a blast! Thanks to April, Mikkele, Grant, and Adam for riding down with us and sharing gas! It was a long trip, but loads of fun! Until next time...

One Hairy Update

Alrighty....

Here are my latest (and I'm sure, much-anticipated) pix of my new hair. For those of you who are like my hubby, you might say that it looks the same as it did before. You are wrong. I have different bangs, and LOTS more layers. The layering starts at my ears where they used to start at my shoulders. So, there you go!

{Feel free to ridicule me as much as you want for my retardedness. I won't be offended.}