I went to Atlanta for work last week and on the way home go to go to Memphis to stay with one of my college roommates, Bethany!  We had a blast shopping, watching movies, eating, cooking & it snowed like 10 inches!

Here we are on the balcony of her apartment about an hour into the snow that lasted about 12 hours.


Since we were stuck inside & couldn't go get a cupcake we decided to make them!  But we didn't have any eggs.  I found a website that said you could substitute part water, part baking powder & part oil as a substitute.  See the picture below & you tell me if you think it even remotely resembles the same outcome.


Here we are with one that actually had some structure to it.  The rest were liquified.


Here's Bethany scrapping the snow off her car before church.  Her boyfriend ended up coming to get us since Memphis doesn't snow plow their streets & it was still very icy!


And here's us on the way to the airport.  We had such a good time & I wish we lived closer together!


And here's a picture of a bridesmaid's dress from David's bridal for Andrea.  :)


And this one isn't close but you can see the length of the skirt.

January has been a big month!  And actually all the big events happened in the same week!  It started on Inauguration Day--George W Bush left DC & came home to Midland!  There was a big welcome home celebration here!  My friend Dawn & I waiting in line for a little over an hour to be part of the 30,000 people crammed into little Centennial Plaza in downtown Midland, Texas!
I think we'd finally made it in at this point!  And we were really excited!


We were behind 20,000 people but we were there!


There were signs like this all throughout Midland!

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So that event was on Tuesday...on Friday I flew to Corpus to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday!  My grandfather was giving her a surprise party & all the granddaughters were coming in to add to the party!


Our family.  My dad thinks it's funny to try to talk while a picture is being taken...the result is he just looks funny!


The granddaughters: Bonnie, Laurie, Maggie, me & Sarah.


In our party hats!


Lala about to blow out her candles!  She was so surprised!  I don't think she stopped crying the whole time!

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So that was a big time!  But the bigger event was about to happen!  My sister Bonnie was about to get the surprise of her life!  Her boyfriend was planning to propose that night!  We all knew it & were having to be very secretive!  He took her to go out to eat & as soon as they left we hauled out to the restaurant to meet them there.  He sidetracked to the beach where he had a bonfire waiting & asked her to marry him.  She said "hell yes!"  Then they came to the restaurant where our family & his were waiting to surprise her even more!


"I'M ENGAGED!!!"


The mothers check out the bling!


The happy couple!  We got Bonnie this sweet tiara with a veil!


The soon to be bride & her maid of honor!

"Well, actually it's Christmas, Dad."   :) 

It was a very good Christmas (as was Thanksgiving last month)!  Lots of fun parties in Midland and then some in Corpus too!  I'm very very thankful for all the friends & family with which the Lord has blessed me! 



Worldview office Christmas party.

Annapolis Christian Academy alumni at Carino's in Corpus Christi.

Aubree & I at dinner.

Aubs, Tara, Teagan & I.

My Family: me, Bonnie & Pama, Momma & Remy, Daddy & Noel.

All of us.  Remy didn't get to sit on a lap because we'd just discovered he had poop on him.  :(