Year of Dates

One of Russell’s Christmas presents this year was a Year of Dates.  And yes, this was a pinterest inspired gift.  He received a basket of envelopes, on for each month, that had a preplanned date activity.  And each contains everything we need for the date.

So yesterday we went on our January date.

We went to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to see the King Tut exhibit.  It is the last time it will ever be outside of Egypt again, and it’s last stop was Houston.  A couple of other teachers had said it was really good, so I was excited to check it out.  Now, I know this date was probably more up my alley than Russell’s, but I knew he would like it as well.

It was a pretty good exhibit.  I know they had extracted over 1,000 items from his tomb, and we were a little disappointed they didn’t have a TON of stuff, but they did have a lot, and the most important stuff.  We were also disappointed that they didn’t have the sarcophagus- they had one of the small ones that contained his stomach, but not the large one that actually contained his body.  But I can understand if it is solid gold, it is very valuable and hard to ship.  But other than those two things it was very fun, educational, and interesting.  We had a blast.

Then we walked around the rest of the museum and saw some of the other art they had.  Then we headed back to Cypress because we were meeting some college friends for dinner.  My old rooommate Katie and her husband live in Richmond, and Krystal (my old bible study leader) and her husband just moved back to Cypress.  They are both really great, and so are their husbands, so I’m sure we will make it a regular thing.

I wont say what the rest of the years dates are since they are still a surprise for Russell.  So stay tuned for the rest of the dates!!

All Shotted Up

For those of you that don’t know … Russell and I are going to South Africa on mission trip over Spring Break.

Because of this, we needed to get some shots.  So on Tuesday we went to the doctor to get our shots.  Russell had to get Hepatitis A and B, Typhoid, and he was due for his Tetanus.

 

I was also due up for my Tetanus, Hepatitis A, Typhoid and I went ahead an got my flu shot.  I had two on each arm.  And my arms were very sore the next day, and even a little today.

 

Jeremy called us today and said we are getting a lot of support for the trip.  We are probably about 60% there.  If you are interested in supporting us let us know!

Fantasy Football

This year I was in two fantasy football leagues.  One with some guys from church, where I did TERRIBLE.  And the other was with the six “Roddy’s” (mom, dad, Les, Jeremy, me and Russell).  In the Roddy league I did AWESOME!! 

Russell said I picked the best league to be good in, because the Roddy league actually had some money on it.  At the beginning of the season we all went and bought a $25 gift card.  The winner gets all the gift cards, except the one they bought which goes to the 2nd place person.

I made it to the championship game.  And it was a nailbitter.  Good thing Drew Brees was going for the record because…..

McCARTHATRONS WIN!!!!!!!!!!

I now have to think of things to buy from Pennys, Best Buy, Target, iTunes, and OTB!!!

 

Good season, a lot of ups and downs, but lots of fun!!!  Looking forward to taking my family’s money again next year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays.  We had a fantastic two weeks of spending time together and with family and friends. 

The way the holidays fell this year, Russell was able to take 2 weeks off with only 5 days.  So he had the exact same break I did.  It was nice having time together just to relax and do nothing.

On Christmas we had Russell’s family over.  However, Max woke up with vertigo, so he ended up having to stay at home.  But Kathy and Tony made their way over and we had a nice ham lunch with all the fixings.  Russell and I had opened stockings in the morning, but waited to open presents until we did with the family.  Santa was very good to us this year, was very blessed by so may loved ones!

My family came down the Thursday after Christmas.  Leslie had to work through Christmas so they came down as soon as her 7 days off started.  We celebrated Christmas Thursday night.  On Friday the boys played golf (go figure) and s ladies did some shopping.  Saturday we watched the Aggies gang up on Northwestern!!  And Sunday after church they had to leave to go back.

Both Russell and I went back to work on Tuesday, luckily though the kids didn’t come until Wednesday.  It has been an adjustment getting back on schedule, but I am confident it will be a great semester!!

And now the outside

So after several weekends of work, we have most all of the outside decorations up.  We have a few things that we bought this year for the porch and columns- but honestly I don’t think they are going to make it up this year.  And that’s ok.  There is only one more week until Christmas!

This year we added the red lights around the garage and the lights coming down on the right side.  And all the bushes are red lights, unlike last year only the uppers were read and the lower bushes were multicolored.  This was mainly because we could only find multicoloreds last year.  I found some more reds this year.  We also added an angle to the front porch.  Russell thinks she looks kinda cheap- I like her.

This year, and the discovery of pinterest, I have done some Christmas crafts.  You have already seen the ornaments.  Now I have made these cute little snowmen.

I suppose I should get a Christmas rug to go on the porch now.  Perhaps there will be some on sale after Christmas.  That’s where I normally get stuff for the next year.  So stay tuned

Tis the Season

So the Christmas season is here.  This Christmas I am feeling crafty.  Well actually there is this website www.pinterest.com – it will make you want to be crafty.  I saw several ornaments that were really cute and they make it seem like its not that hard.  So I went out to Hobby Lobby got my supplies and got started.  Here are some of my creations:

Inside is officially decorated… hopefully tomorrow after church we can get up on the roof and put up the outside lights…

Thanksgiving

This week we got a whole week off for Thanksgiving!  It was awesome.  Technically Monday and Tuesday were bad weather days (if we had a hurricane this year). 

I went to Dallas on Monday, since a weekend is never long enough to see everyone.  Monday I met up with Dad for dinner.  Apparently Leslie said she was coming too, but neither dad nor I knew that so when I saw her walk by (Ggnghis Grill at the mall) I stood up and waved and made a scene- but she was coming all along.  HAHAHA. oops.    After dinner dad and I went to see J. Edgar.  It was not good- nothing like we thought it was going to be… so weird

On Tuesday I met up with Lauren and Heather for lunch at Panera Bread.  Then we went and hung out at Heathers new house.  Then we went to the Galleria and walked around, shopped, and had fun.  We ended up having dinner as well.  It’s been so long since we have had two meals together.  We used to do it all the time in college.  I miss the days when we complained that I was 10 minutes away from their apartment. 

On Wednesday Leslie and I headed to Greenville to see Grandmother and Granddaddy.  We met up at their apartment to have lunch and ran some errands with Grandmother and then went to see Granddaddy, but he was in the middle of a therapy session so we didn’t stay too long.  But it was great to see them.  I miss them.

On Thursday we went to nannie and Da’s for Thanksgiving.  On our way over though we had a family photo shoot.

Then mom and dad went to see Grandmother and Granddaddy, so we killed some time at a gas station.  Russell saw a scratch off machine and wanted to buy a lotto ticket, but only had $4, so Leslie chipped in the last dollar.  They won ($10) so they both doubled their money and were SUPER excited!

While we were at Nannie and Da’s we got to meet my newest second cousin (I think that is what she is to me). 

Friday Rachel was in town, so the girls came over to my house to hang out.  Again I miss us all being together.

Then we had dinner with the Smiths.  On Saturday we (mom, dad, Russell and I – Leslie had to work) went to Top Golf.  That is a fun place and I did decently well. 

We met Leslie for lunch.  Then we went to see the Muppets movie.  We got their pretty early, and so they made us stand in line.  We were the first ones.  So nothing like being the first in line for a kiddie movie. lol.  But it was still a really good movie- brought back memories.

All in all is a was a GREAT week.  Too bad then we had to come back.