Snow in Houston?!!?

YEP! Outside my balcony...

and on my car!

The next morning I had to use my scrapper to get the snow/ice off...it totally felt like a REAL december! (vs. the 70 degree weather we had the day before!)

...AND...at work we are having "the 12 days of Christmas" so the 12 days before Christmas we do something special each day: cookies, free jeans day, staff potluck etc....

The day after it snowed was....

HOT CHOCOLATE DAY!!
I was loving that :)

Christmas Time

(Sorry Jaci! I know you already had this background, but I loved it too...)

Favorite Christmas song:

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare Him room,

And heaven and nature sing,

And heaven and nature sing,

And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!

Let men their songs employ;

While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

-

No more let sins and sorrows grow,

Nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make His blessings flow

Far as the curse is found,

Far as the curse is found,

Far as, far as, the curse is found.

-

He rules the world with truth and grace,

And makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness,

And wonders of His love,

And wonders of His love,

And wonders, wonders, of His love.

i love when you repeat "wonders of his love" over and over and the second verse "Joy to the world, our savior reigns!"


Favorite Christmas decoration: Candy Canes -- when I was little, the chruch did a christmas play and sang a little song about candy canes...i still remember the words, it goes like this:

Every time I see a candy cane hanging on a tree

I can't help thinking of the one who gave his life for me

And everything about candy cane from its color to its shape:

Reminds me of my savior's love, that's why I celebrate!

The thanksgiving tally

Number of days till Thanksgiving: 2
Number of family members feeling sick: 8
Number of family members feeling well: 10
Number of kleenex used: countless!

...hopefully these numbers will be changing...

Quote of the Year

What do you think your boyfriend likes most about you? "I think he likes me because we both have fun. We both like sushi."

I was watching Trading Spouses. After that, "mom for a week" said, we'll i think you are young and naive and should wait to get married.

i agree. is that really all she could think of?!

Top 10 things about Thanksgiving

10. No work!
9. Cowboys game!
8. Playing with my baby cousins -- really not babies (age 7, 5, 3) but they will always be the youngest!
7. Sleep-overs with my big cousins! (not fat, but older...except i am the oldest so younger than me but older than everyone else) **
6. Left-overs!!
5. Friday shopping with Mom, my aunts, grandma and cousin, Lisa!
4. Being with my family!
3. That its the only non-commercialized holiday left (sad, but true)!
2. Sweet Potatoes!!! mmmm!! (my favorite)
1. Family Charades!

**There are 11 grandkids/cousins -- 4 big kids (25, 23, 23, 22 - me included ), 4 little kids (19, 19, 16, 15), and 3 babies(7, 5, 3)

Twilight!

saw it.

loved it.

spent a significant amount of time looking at characters and pictures on imdb.com!

you should see it

you should love it.

you shold spend a significant amount of time READING THE BOOKS!!

Dr. Pepper

Last week, my boss asked me to attend a meeting for her. I agreed. Little did I know, it was at the CRACK OF DAWN!!!

....let me start by saying, most days I do not have a client until 9:30 or 10 BUT my last client isn't over until 5:45 or 6:15! So, when my boss arranged this meeting at 8:00, I sorta threw a BIG BABY FIT! I was going to have to leave my house at 7:15 to get there in time! (I usually wake up at 8:00!!! so this was WAYY early for me!)...

I agreed to go, but warned that everyone was going to have to be EXTRA nice to me that day and possibly have lots of chocolate and dr. pepper on hand!

When I walked in from the appointment, this was on the back board:

I was running around the office trying to find it!! It was so fun! and now I have a million dr. peppers to drink!

in case you wanted to know who I worked with, Ms. Cassie made this on Board Maker (if you don't know about it...you should!) don't we look like a fun office?

p.s. everyone was jealous that I had earrings on! :)