Here we Go

2011 has started out pretty good. No complaints from the first week. We arrived back into Galveston on Monday around 8 and I was at work by 10:30. No rest for the weary. With all the days I'm taking for the wedding, I really didn't want to take that day unless I had too.

Since we're less than 3 months away from the wedding and I was in the 160s coming back from the cruise, I decided to go visit my old friend Weight Watchers on Tuesday. They have a new program which includes free fruits. Although I'm not supposed to weigh until next Tuesday, I've cheated and jumped on the scale a few times. As predicted, its working like a charm.

Yesterday afternoon, VTXW invited the staff to go see The King's Speech. The movie is about King George VI who stammered and his speech therapist who helped him. I was the only one that went with Bill & Judy, but I didn't mind since Neal is not a movie person and I jumped at this chance to go. The movie was awesome and made me really proud to be a SLP. Although I think my days in the school setting might be numbered, I really do love the profession and am very thankful that God sent me down that road.

Happy 2011

We spent New Years 2011 on a cruise. Two years ago, we were in New Orleans and last year we were bums and stayed home. I guess this was our year to go all out. We went with 7 other couples and had such a good time with them. The wind was blowing 50mph or so most of the trip which made for a rocky ride. I didn't get too sick but I definetely watched what I ate and drank as to not make it worse. It was really neat to ring in the new year on top of the ship out in the middle of the gulf. We were in Cozumel for New Years Day. The group rented a few jeeps and we drove around the island, stopping every so often at a bar or restaurant. I loved spending new years day sitting on the beach with a cold beer.

Merry Christmas!

This is a Christmas post that I started and intended to finish but never did. It is what it is. :)


We had a great Christmas weekend. Christmas Eve morning, we went to Memorial Park and did a little running. Not too cold. Mack wanted to stop and sniff everything but whatever. Then we ate Berryhill Tamales (yum!) and hung out until it was time to get ready for church. All I can say about the Christmas Eve church is that it was AMAZING! We usually go to the contemporary service which is in a side parish hall, but tonight we went to the "big" church for the traditional service. It's beautiful and I got chills singing all the old Christmas songs out of the hymnals. My favorites: Away in Manger, Hark the Hearld Angels Sing, and Silent Night in candlelight. It started monsooning during the service. After church, we had a delicious meal and a bottle of wine at Brio. The plan was to go look at Christmas lights afterward but with the torrential downpours, we decided to just go home.

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

Mom & I went to Karen's for a couple of days. While we were there, we drove up to the Gaylord Texan to see the Charlie Brown ICE exhibit. Lots of people but it was very cool to see. Something like 2 million pounds of ice. We sported the nice blue parkas because it was 22 degrees inside the exhibit. We even got to see Grandview's finest Christmas lights.

Saturday

Last night I went to the VTXW Christmas party at the Davison's. It was a lot of fun and the food was delicious. They are very generous. I love my new purple scarf from Nordstrom's. This morning Mack & I did Day 1 of the Couch to 10K program. I've totally let my running slide. I've set a goal to run the Rodeo Run at the end of February. I want to be able to do the 6.2 miles in about an hour. Then I drove out to Kingwood to get my haircut and highlighted. It's fun to talk to Jamie about all the wedding stuff.

Holiday Time

It's officially Christmas break. This was the week at work that would just not end. I had zero motivation to get things done which means there will be a nice pile waiting for me in January but that's not something I'm concerned with right now. I haven't had a lot to say lately. Life is moving along. Last weekend we started our registry at Bed, Bath, & Beyond. We got about half way through the store and started getting tired because I just had to go down every single aisle. I also tried my dress which was a kind reminder that I need to start working out more often. Tonight is the VTXW Christmas party. Neal went to San Antonio for a guys weekend so I'm flying solo. Tomorrow I'm getting my overdue hair cut and seeing Leslie for dinner.

2 weeks later

Here's a recap of the past couple of weeks. Thanksgiving went well at our house. It all turned out good despite all my stressing. We had Mom, Dad, Karen, Coy, Justin, Chad, Grandma, BJ, Vanessa, and Coleson. Random but Grandma kept telling me how she was so impressed that Neal came home with everything on the grocery list I had made. Reason 794 why I love him. After everyone left, it was nice to have a couple days to be totally lazy.

On Tuesday we went to taste wedding cakes. So many choices. We decided on a couple and Jesse drew a sketch of a very simple wedding cake for me. We ordered both the wedding cake and groom's cake. It still astonishes me how much all of this costs, but it will be worth it.

Last night, we went to Collina's for the SBE Christmas party. I really like getting to know people and was glad that we could talk about things other than school.