Hallmark After Christmas Shopping

I took the day after Christmas off. My mom and I woke up ­very early on the 26th and went to Hallmark. We weren’t sure what time they opened, so we arrived a little after 7. Come to find out, they opened at 8, but there were several ladies already in line. I sat in the car for a bit while my mom put on make-up. I questioned the line and she told me that the ladies can be vicious. They stand in line and when the doors open, they scramble for a bag and run to the ornaments. She told me to grab a bag and as many ornaments as I like. You don’t have time to look and make your decision right then. After you get everything you think you may want, you find a spot towards the back of the store and go through and weed out what you don’t want. Since I was a novice to Hallmark after Christmas shopping, I appreciated the advice. A few minutes later, she kicked me out of the warm car to stay in line because more ladies were coming. The ladies in line turned out to be friendly, and we had good conversations until the door opened. Then it was every lady for herself. I held my own, and I got everything I wanted, and a few things I didn’t know I wanted until I saw them. We have so many cute ornaments for next year! We actually already hung them on the tree. I’m not planning on taking it down for a while. I enjoy looking at it and so does Eric. I think Hallmark after Christmas shopping is going to become a tradition for my mom and me.

Hide and Seek

Eric’s mom came into town last night for Christmas. After dinner, we went to his cousin Greg’s house. He and his wife have a precious little girl named Morgan (she was in our wedding). She begged Eric and I to play hide and seek with her. Morgan and I hid while Eric tried to find us. She insisted on hiding wherever I went. I found some really great spots – I was proud of myself. Morgan tried to be quiet by whispering, but her form of whispering was really loud. Eric was able to find us every time. I wasn’t much help though; when Eric would come in the room, I would start giggling. I need to work on that for next time. At one point of the game, Morgan told me to stick out my tongue, so Eric would think we were dead. I told her okay, but he would probably check our heart beat. Her reply was, “Oh, well stick it out anyway.” Of course when Eric came in the room we screamed, so he knew we weren’t dead. :) Hide and Seek is fun; I think Eric and I need to play it sometime at home.

Twilight Before Christmas

Alison emailed me this short video on this site... TOO Funny!!! Twilight fans will appreciate it. :)

Done

Christmas cards are in the mail. :)

Christmas Cards

Eric and I still haven’t sent out our Christmas Cards. Christmas really snuck up on me this year; the time has just flown by! We were going to send out picture cards, but Eric wanted to print them from home. We couldn’t find the template paper anywhere. We ended up buying some from Target that you can just insert the picture in. Oh well, we’ll try to do better next year and get more of a head start. If tonight goes as planned, we’ll have the cards ready to mail tomorrow. As long as everyone gets them by Christmas, we’ll be fine. I can’t believe it’s right around the corner – how exciting!!!

Picture Tag

Mia tagged me!

The object of this Picture Tag is to:

1. Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures.

2. Pick the 4th picture in that folder.

3. Explain the picture.

4. Tag 4 people to do the same!

Here is my 4th picture in my 4th folder:

This is Eric and I in November of last year at the Texans game. It was really cold that night! And it took us forever to get home because we rode the transit bus. We couldn't find where to get on the bus after the game - what an adventure! But we had a really fun time! We had great seats under where former President Bush sat.

I'm tagging:

Erin, Stephanie, Alyssa, and Beth

Staff Party

Aren’t we just a good looking group?

We had our Staff Christmas Party at the bowling alley yesterday. We had so much fun – more than I thought we would. I almost broke a 100 on the first game. I panicked on the last frame because of the excitement of possibly breaking a 100 for the first time. I gutter balled it. So sad! But Eric’s taking me on Friday and I’ll try it again. I think I can do it next time. The second game was called wacky bowling. Each frame we did something different like lying on the floor, granny style, backwards, sitting down, putting one hand over your eyes, etc. I actually got a strike on the one I had to lay on the floor. I had the second highest score on my team – 66. There was lots of laughing, so much so that our stomachs ached. Who knew bowling could be so much fun?!

Bed and Breakfast Update

Eric and I had the best weekend we’ve had in a long time. Since our birthdays are so close together we decided to celebrate by getting a Bed and Breakfast in downtown Brenham. What a fun time! Downtown Brenham has the cutest little stores. They’re all old with wooden floors and unique things you can’t find anywhere else. And the have great antique stores. I was so inspired! Too bad the stores closed at 6 for the parade of lights. They had floats and little kids wishing everyone Merry Christmas – so adorable! After that we went to a restaurant with the best hamburgers and it had a relaxing small town atmosphere. Sunday morning after breakfast (which by the way was amazing – the lady lived in England for ten years, so the B&B had an English feel), we went to an ice-cream shop. It was one of those old timey parlors. I felt like I was back in time sixty years. We got to sit at the bar in the parlor chairs. I was so sad when the weekend was over. Monday morning I was pouting a little – back to reality! But we decided that we’re definitely going to have to do that again very soon!

Happy Belated Birthday Shout Out to My SugarBear

My honey’s birthday was on Monday. I was going to officially announce it in the blog-world, but Monday was crazy busy at work. I took him to the Cheesecake Factory for a yummy dinner. Tonight we’re having a joint birthday party with my family and this weekend we’re going on a get-away to a bed and breakfast in Brenham. It’s so fun being married to Eric. I love spending my life with my best friend. Eric finished our wedding video over Thanksgiving weekend, and we showed my parents when we got home. My dad told me that several people including him said I was the happiest bride they’ve ever seen. My dad said he tells them I’m still that happy… and it’s true, I am. I’ve prayed for Eric to come into my life for as long as I can remember, but I’m just blown away that God blessed with someone that could not be any more perfect for me. Thank you Lord for blessing me with a Godly, handsome, loving, gentle, funny, easy-going (the list can go on and on…) man to spend the rest of my life with.