Saying Bye to 2008

Disclaimer: I started this New Years Eve but grew so irritated with my parents internet connection that I gave up. Since coming home, I've been so busy with work that I am just now getting to it. Please forgive me...

I can't believe the year is ending. I wonder how long it would have taken me to remember to now write 2009 on my checks if I still wrote them?

Anyway, I thought I would share some of my favorite pictures from 2008 as I close out the year. They are in no particular order :)

Camping in the Spring

Paul and I at Jennifer's birthday

Ladies Restroom sign at the AT&T Center.

Paul and I on my birthday

Dad and Patrick Dempsey :)

Paul and I in Cabo on vacation

Paul and Izzie on the beach

Club Med in Indonesia - I went for work but didn't get to enjoy it as we were in meetings all the time :(

Our new tent! Camping just before Thanksgiving.

Paul, Taylor and Dad

Me and Izzie

Sprinkles cupcakes! The best ever!

Happy Holidays!

Hope you've had a good start to your 2009.

Paulie want a Pizza??

Paul finally...FINALLY got his Lou Malnati's pizza! On Monday we spent the morning and early afternoon going to a movie and then having pizza. We couldn't exactly take any pictures at the movies...but we took them at pizza. Here it is..well worth the 35 minutes it takes to cook.


Here is my husband..proudly displaying the pizza he is about to eat. Believe me, if you knew what total crap pizza we get in San Antonio...well...lets just hope you never have to live under such conditions!


And after he's eaten it...doesn't he look happy? I'm so glad he was!

Weather

Only in the Midwest!  We started at -8 on Sunday...then it got above 0 and snowed...quite a bit actually.  Then it was in the 30's and it got super foggy...and last night it rained...so almost all of the snow is gone and it is 53 outside.  The heat has been turned off and we've opened a few windows.  At least Paul won't say he's cold.

I think that today Paul is going to play video games and I am going to go shopping with my mom.  It'll be pretty low key.

Here's a picture of Izzie...for those who may miss her :)

Christmas Pictures

We had a fantastic Christmas...full of laughs, presents and way too much food.

Paul got his PS3.

We got Dad a Bears Jersey...

Lindsay and Gavin

Me and Taylor


Mom and Hayden

Jeff and Paul


Me and Paul - in our hats from our Christmas Crackers

Me and Cathy

Jordan and Cathy at dinner

Hayden and Keith going home.

Photo booth

I don't think I went outside today...I should have really because it's at least 30 degrees warmer than it was the first 2 days we were here..and I think it only hit 30 here..so I guess that would make it 35 degrees warmer.

So..today we did all of our wrapping...and then Lin and the boys came over. Gavin humored me by taking a photo booth picture.

I tried to do a retake, but he wasn't having any of it. I can probably get Taylor to do one with me if she comes over tomorrow.

Delayed!

We're delayed! I knew we would be! What is good though..is that the San Antonio airport apparently now has free internet...so we are staying entertained.


If you know anything about seats at airports you know how awkward they are..and then imagine that my computer is on my lap and this picture is at a bad angle...but anyway..regardless...we're delayed and so we took a picture and decided to let everyone know...

We're ready to go

Well, we are mentally ready to go.  Its 9:00 and my bag is mostly packed..which means I have clothes packed but not much else.  I'm sure we'll be ready..is there anything I really could forget and not be able to replace?

Spell check

I've just had he most ridiculous conversation with my mom...brought to you by spell checker...the letter O and the number 7.

Me: I finally had a good night sleep. I did wake up in the night but I made sure I didn't wear my watch to bed...and when I woke up I didn't look at the clock.

Carol: I'm glad your rested.

Me: Me too...Maybe it was the hot chocolate I had before going to bed. I don't know, I am just glad I slept.

Carol: If you made it with hot mild that would defiantly help. Warm/hot milk produces tryptophan and that makes you sleep.

Me: Hmm...hot mild? Did your spell check go crazy on you? Yes...I made it with Cadbury's drinking chocolate...I had warm milk.

Carol: I had Horlicks made with hot mold last night and slept like a log.

Me: Um...with hot mold..that sounds lovely??? Whats up with your spell check??? If I drank hot mold I don't think I'd sleep like a log...I'd probably have to sleep by the toilet...

(I had to stop several times to wipe away the tears as I typed this...)

Comedy like this just happens naturally...and is sponsored by spell check....

Christmas Tree

We put up our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. If we weren't going out of town for the holidays, I probably would have waited until at least the beginning of December to do it. Also, we didn't put out all of the decorations or even the lights outside this year, but I felt that at least the tree had to go up.


I love getting out all of the decorations for the tree...I have so many favorites. Its a shame that they only come out once a year, but maybe that's why I love them so much...because I don't see them for the other 11 months of the year.

Happy Anniversary

Today Paul and I celebrated out 1st anniversary.

Celebrated...sounds like such a funny thing to say really. It's not like we had a party with balloons and hats or anything...but we had a really nice dinner and enjoyed each others company. I think that's a nice way to spend an anniversary.

Sleepy

Izzie and I were being lazy on Saturday...and we were talking (yes....I talk to the dog...are you really surprised????) about how we were going to take our Christmas card picture with me Paul and Izzie in bed..but since Paul was already up, we were going to see how it would have looked.  I was procrastinating about getting up and going to the gym :)

We were supposed to be pretending to be asleep...clearly Izzie doesn't have a good understanding of what that means...I wonder what she was thinking about..she looks deep in thought.  Either that or she thinks her mama is insane..can't really argue with her there.

Post...with pictures

So..it's like this.  Here's the cord for the camera. 

This means that my pc is broken and it is currently in for repair.  The good news in all of this is that it wasn't Paul's fault.  Apparently there is a known issue with HP computers and so the repair place is getting it fixed for us..and it'll only be $100.  It could have been a lot worse.   But now, I'll be having to use the cord all the time, because Paul got me a MacBook!

I have been wanting one of these for a really long time.  We found that it has all kind of great picture thingy-magigies...so that was fun.  The thing that really stinks, though, is at this point, I am having a hard time figuring out how to get pictures into blogger, etc, etc.  I am sure I'll get through it with some practice.

I really wish we'd had this to make our Christmas card.  Well..there's always next year.

Cold

I just called and talked to my dad. I said that I was freezing...its 49 degrees...he had no sympathy for me...none.

Boring Post

I am going to say this is going to be a super boring post...mostly because my laptop won't turn on so I don't have any pictures to post..or if I take some..say maybe of the sweater I am knitting..I can't post them because I don't know where the cord is to hook my camera up with this computer. (I think I actually know where the cord is...but I am not going to get it because I have no sweater picture..and I think you see the vicious cycle...) So..yeah..my laptop is broken. I am going to take it in to get repaired on Thursday. I blame it on Paul and his stupid game that he plays on it. Ever since he started it has been super slow. I think he's going to owe me a MacBook...

What else? The weather here has been so nice..but now the wind has started blowing and so it'll be "cold"..well Texas cold, for the next few days.

There really isn't anything else happening. I am counting the days till we go to Illinois for Christmas...for which I have bought Paul snow boots...he'll be needing them :)