Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Nick and I wold like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas. Please be careful with all your travels!! Hope Santa finds you!!

Happy Birthday Lucas

Today (December 10) is Lucas' 23rd Birthday!! I cant believe you are 23. I feel really old :( I was only three when mom and dad brought you home for the hospital, but I hear about it often because I put your whole foot in my mouth and bit down. I wanted mom and dad to take you back!! I am glad they didnt because my life would not be the same without you. Happy birthday little brother!!

Happy Birthday MOM

Today is my mom's 45th birthday!! (December 7) Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear mom. Happy birthday to you. That was me singing to you without putting you through the pain of hearing my lovely singing voice. You are the bravest and most beautiful woman I know!! Glad we got to celebrate this weekend. Dad the cherry delight was great! I love you, mom!! Happy Birthday and I wish for many more to come!!

let the holiday season begin

Lots has happened since my last blog. Kelly and Brooks Thomann tied the knot on the 21st of November. It was nice being able to get together with friends and catch up. Congrats Kelly and Brooks!! The next week was Thanksgiving!! I love Thanksgiving because it is my favorite meal!! I made my first pie from scratch, crust and everything!! I was proud of myself because it was done all by myself. On Black Friday, Nick and I braved the crowd so get a start on our Christmas shopping. I thought it was a blast. The lines in Old Navy and Bath and Body Works were terrible, but other than that the shopping spree went well. I only have one more person to buy for and than I am done. I even have all of my purchases wrapped and underour tree. I love Christmas time!! Here are some recent pics of my peeps!!

long time no blog

So I have not updated my blog forever so I got lots to say!! We have been pretty busy the last month. Angie, Mike, Lucas and his friends along with Nick and myself headed down to Ste. Genevieve, MO to Crown Valley winery. This is an annual event that is only allowed to take place once due to the craziness we get ourselves into!! Wine is a different kind of drunk, one minute you are on a tour feeling fine the next minute you are grinding with the class of '79 (that would be my brother)!! We then ventured to the new brewery down the road. I dont like beer so I drank the heck out of Fizzy Izzy root beer. After about an hour or so, everyone was starting to get crazy so we called it a day and went to eat. Good wine, good friends, good memories!! The next week Nick and I attended a wedding of Carl and Aimee (Nick works with Carl). We got to experience the worlds worst wedding crasher!! An Elvis impersonator was hired by the bride's parents to perform a few songs at the reception. You should have seen the look on there faces, fear, disbelief and anger!!We all got a laugh though. The next weekend Mallory, mom and myself went to the Coevered Bridge Festival. This year we decided to spend the night in Terre Haute and go 2 days instead of just one. It was a little chilly but lots of fun. Last year, every pumpkin I found I bought and this year it was snowmen. Mallory was getting crabby because I picked up every snowman that I saw and tried to picture where in my house I could put him!! The following weekend I went to Newton to help my mom paint her bedroom. She has not re-done her bedroom since we moved in to the house 15 years ago. She had a brilliant idea to stripe one of the walls. It seemed like a great idea at the time, but half way through we decided it was not so brilliant. We eventually finished and I have to say it turned out wonderfully. I did not get to see the entire room put back together so I am excited to check out the end product. Last weekend we celebrated my sister-in-laws birthday. Christy turns 29 on the 29th, her golden b-day!! Happy early b-day, Christy!! And last but not least Happy Halloween!! I know it is early, but I figure I probably would forget to update and the holiday would be over. To all my friends with kiddos, send pics of all your ghosts and goblins.

Disney continued

Day 5: Magic Kingdom again. Happy Birthday to me!! So I got the royal treatment today with the pin and the gift card!! It was great hearing happy birthday a million times that day and of course getting to spend it with some characters and I am not talking about nick, mal and Shelby!! Ha, ha!! It was corny, I know! Anyway, we basically just stalked characters all day. we found out exactly what time each character was coming for meet and greets and where and we went. It was a blast. We also rode a few more rides again, thunder mountain (rollercoaster) and Pirates of the Caribbean. Disney remade the pirate ride and now it mimicks the movie featuring Johnny Depp. His character in the ride looks exactly like him, it is crazy!! We watched the Spectromagic parade again (we watched this one on Monday also) and then saved the best for last, the Fireworks display called "wishes". It was awesome, everyting was synchronized to music and Tinkerbell flew from the top of the castle. It was beautful and very magical. For whatever reason my computer is not letting me add anymre pics so you will all just have to wait to see the Disney Scrapbook. Oh yes, there will be one. We bought special Disney books with our gift cards!! Anyway, after shopping a bit and eating everything Disney had to offer, we decided to head back to the resort and get our stuff ready for departure the next day. The trip went by so fast, but the memories will last forever. I strongly advise everyone to visit Disney as much as possible because you can enjoy it no matter what your age!!

Disney continues

Day 4: Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom was vey different than any of the other parks, but still really neat to see. Expedition Everest is the rollercoaster there where you are in search of the Yeti. You actually go backwards during part of the ride. It was pretty cool. We then decided to hit the water ride despite Nick and Mallory's opposition. Mallory got drenched, Shelby was pretty wet, my butt was wet and Nick got a few sprinkles. Lucky him and probably lucky me too because he would have killed me if he was the one drenched!! Check out the pic. Mal looks like a drounded rat!!
We all dried off during the safari ride. We got to get up close and personal to many animals and see them in their "human-made" natural environment. There was also many shows to watch. Bugs Life was probably the best. It was 3D and everything that happened you could feel or smell (seriously one of the bugs farted!!). The icon for this park is the Tree of Life. It is huge with over 300 animals carved into the trunk. It was a shorter day because the park closed at 7 so we decided to go back to Downtown Disney to eat and party. By the time we ate, I was ready for bed!! Everyone else wanted to stay out and party so we stayed for a while longer. All of the clubs are closed now and being renovated into resturants. However, every restaurant has live music so there were dance parties everywhere!! The girls danced in the street and Nick and I took pics of them. Day 4 complete. One more day of magical moments await us!!