Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Graduations!!!!!




Saturday, December 15th was a very special day for two of my fave people! my sister graduated from UNT! yay! Josh graduated from TCU! yay! i was fortunate enough to get to attend both ceremonies. i was very tired and hungry at the end of Josh's.....i left soon after i got to watch him walk and we all hooped and hollered for him :O) This pic of Josh and his fiance Katherine was taken at our staff Christmas party this year. up top is my seester just after getting her diploma, and then me and her afterwards. Congratulations Shilah and Josh I am so proud of ya'll!!!

oops, more Christmas party pics!!




These pics are from our Christmas party at Dr. Moody and Emily's fabulous digs. top pic: Stacy, Issy, Tori, Ave, Jess. second pic was taken after (while playing "catch phrase") Jess exclaimed LOUDLY that BOYZ TO MEN!!!!! and N'SYNC!!!!!! were a famous 4-man musical group....
third pic....Nancy describing as everyone listens to try and guess right before the buzzer goes off!
last pic=me, Ave, Wick. Cuteness! Happy birthday yesterday Wick!! Big 10 year old!!!

Christmas parties!!!!



These are from our "staff" Christmas party Friday Dec 14. We did the "chinese" gift exchange....why is it called that by the way?....anyway, if you are not familiar with this game, you draw numbers, 1-however many people are there that brought gifts, then start with #1. #1 picks a present and opens it. yay! #2 then has the choice of opening a new gift from the pile, or 'stealing' #1's present! this gets fun. if #1's present gets stolen, they open a new gift...and so on and so forth. that top picture is of me stealing the green blanket from sweet Nancy....she had stolen it from Sue, and that means the blanket is safe with me! presents cannot be in possession by more than 3 people. :O) everyone just knew i would want that blanket. and guess what??? I LOVE IT! IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOO SOFT! :O) Thanks Elle Belle! second pic is of Stacy deciding which gift to open. this picture was all natural. not staged one bit. last pic shows Elle Belle, Jess, and Stacy trying on their super sweet new lip smackers!

This is why someone created a kit...





Amber had a gingerbread-house-making-party. I asked her one day, do I need to bring anything? like a kit? oh NO, she said, we make ours from SCRATCH!!! has anyone reading this ever attempted to make a house out of graham crackers and icing? no easy feat! the houses kept falling over. the roofs didn't fit "just right", so mine had a half-inch gap in the roof lol! i tried to fill it in with gumdrops. note the use of "green" on my house...i got this far with it and was done! Robert was, of course, ruining pictures, one of his fave pastimes. Amber and Lindsey were hard at work with their decor...and Deborah, well she just took the blue ribbon for her work of art! sorry i didn't get a pic of it, but in her little creative mind she made her "house" a beach house, and sprinkled yellow sprinkles everywhere around it for sand, and then made water with the blue sprinkles! she then took green wrappers off the hershey kisses and created a palm tree top and put that on top of her house. next she took an un-used graham cracker and shaped it to look sort of like a surfboard, and continued to wrap that in purple hershey kiss wrappers....and last i saw of it she had made a dock in the water out of red gumdrops and red licorace!!! i'm sure Amber has a pic, it was really neat. Amber, I love you, but next year i'm just gonna come for the fellowship!! :O)