christmas in plano- part 1

we arrived in plano on the 23rd

and got to see david and lea ann (poppie & lili)

and blake, jenny, and austin

and alec!

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we ate a great homecooked meal of lasagna

and just chatted the night away.

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the 24th we all (minus lili and poppie)

had to run a secret errand of getting our photos taken

as lili and poppies present

 alec drove us there

AHHHHH

how is he old enough to drive?

 on the way home from picturing

cameron made a stop at Grandy's

for chicken gizzards

EWWWWW GROSS
that's all he talks about in colorado

and he dreams of getting to eat them

so, to grandy's we went.

 briana, the whippet

she has lost like 1/2 her body weight...

apparently it was just a thyroid problem :)

 alec & cameron teaching hazel how to game

 an early christmas present from lili and poppie

a baby einstein gym

 molly michelle

jenny's dog

 alec has an airsoft gun

and the boys went outside to shoot it

(it's like a bb gun, but plastic pellets)

 i wanted to try

and apparently, you aren't supposed to aim at your spouse :)

 i have a blanket on b/c it's cold

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then we had a everyone come meet hazel party

at lea ann's bestfriend's house

(veronica)

 ray & veronica

austin & hazel

 those moss rocks are fake

who woulda known

and the table is covered with wrapping paper

(how smart)!

 lili and cameron

 H in her new OU rhinestone hat :)

 look at that cute toosh!

 austin kissing cousin hazel

 seriously, SOOOO cute

 getting the "reindeer food" ready!

do you love that H is helping?

 the reindeer food going out on the front porch

then we left some milk and cookies for santa

and headed to bed!

Lot's o Things

This was 12/21 and it was snowing (well i think it was the 21st, coulda been the 20th??)!!!!

snow
So, then on the 19th i had a really bad headache, super bad, but then it got a little better, so i went to work on the 20th. and the HA came back, and my nurse friends asked me to take my blood pressure... so i did and it was 164/115 which is really really bad. anyway, they prompted me to go to the ER. So i did, but they didnt do anything. So i went to work the next day and got a Dr.'s appt and they let me leave work at 11:00. Then she put me on BP meds til she could figure out what was wrong with me. She is amazing. So I missed work friday to get some blood work done. then she did an EKG (heart test) and that was okay, my pee was okay, and my neuro exam was okay. So i had an appt the 28th. So i went to get my meds filled and had to get a BP cuff to monitor my BP. I went to the Dr yesterday afternoon and so far so good, but she is gonna take me off my Birth Control meds to see if that is the culprit. Then if that doesnt help, kidney ultrasound, then i don't know what else. but my blood work came back great and my cholesterol is awesome. so we'll see.

Then i was off about 7.5 days (b/c i was sick 1.5 of them) around christmas which was great!

Christmas eve after church we went to Brian and Odette's house for a
little intimate party! I made pesto/cream cheese dip!!! yummo!!!

yum!

this was without the shrimp and bacon wrapped scallops...

brian and cam always look like a couple when

one of them holds sara and they are talking....

liz and o

this IS NOT our baby, but she's cute enough to be :)

uno attack, cam kept trying to cheat, what's new

brian getting "attacked"
the face thing was posed though :)

long giraffe neck liz

broken wrist odie getting "attacked"

dan

tim, cam, brian, and dan playing some video game

CHRISTMAS DAY

tim and dan (his bro) came over for breakfast and we stayed in our pj's all day it was awesome.

I looked outside at 7:30 and it was pouring snow!!!!

snow

presents with tim and dan's stockings

schnooze in her snow gear (she hates those boots) and her vest says naughty

after we opened presents, we made breakfast and started making the turkey.

this is cameron with the "throat" SICKOUT

hand in turkey

tim making something, cam carving turkey

Buddy (tims dog), yes he looks high

cam carving turkey

place setting

place setting, check in the napkin ring, i am so martha

we had wine and cider

scary turkey leg cam

look how much snow now!

making the darned apple pie i cored my wrist, doesnt it look like a bird?

weird.


So we went sledding after we ate and hung out and played guitar hero (which i love and am addicted to). we had a lot of fun and then cam tied a rope behind the jeep and we sleddig (knee boarded) behind the jeep, it was fun. i slipped on an icy part and bruised and bloodied up my knee. boo. it was a lot of fun but tiring.

gifts we got that we loved the most:

Cameron: frame and fork for his bike from his parents/bro

bash ring for his bike from me

money and giftcards from many peeps

Liz: aveda spa and salon gift card from David and LeaAnn and Alec

Cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld from Susanne

Real Simple subscription from Laura and Andy

giftcards and money from many peeps

actually i loved everything i got and so did cameron, but there are too many things to list

thanks friends and family!

Then we woke up at 6:15am to go skiing at Keystone

Liz, Tim, and Dan at the Lodge waiting for cam.

I was the only one skiing, and it was cam's first time snowboarding.

tim and dan

liz and cam

look how pretty the background is. i love colorado.

We were so tired. And tim had to take dan to the airport (flying home to alaska) right after we skiied. but after he took him all the way to the a/p and was heading back, dan's flight was canceled, and tim had to go pick him up. anyways, it was a long day and we (me and cam) hurt so bad. cam fell a lot and felt like he fractured his rib, and i felt like my knees were 80 years old.

Needless to say, this was one of the best christmas's we have ever had. even though we were away from our family, we had a home away from home with tim and dan and brian and odette!

Merry christmas everyone!!!!