Heaven in a bowl

For all my family who likes chocolately-sweet-fresh baked-goodness... BEHOLD..........

COOKIE BROWNIES

Now, obviously, it doesn't have to be from a package to combine the delicious-ness of brownies, with the perfection of chocolate chip cookies, but it just so happens, that this was. And let me tell you, it was FREAKING DIVINE!!!!!! Definitely just made my Monday a little bit better!!

A Couple Of Classy Broads

Kelsie was in town on Saturday and invited me and Liz to brunch. It was SO fun!!! We met up at IHOP for some eating, and even though I have a theory about IHOP that I'll have to explain later... it was SOOO fun!!! Sadly the only pictures I got were of a turtle.... A lady was selling balloon animals to raise money for charity and Kels (the only one with cash) bought a turtle.

We basically loved him.

The best dollar she ever spent. Haha

Maybe I'll get my prince charming... wait... thats not turtles

A Nativity..... Or Two........

This weekend, my church building hosted the Carrollton Community Nativity Exhibit. They had bascially shut down the building for the past week to set it up and we knew it was gonna be cool. Mom and dad drove up to see it cause I knew my mother would love it... and Carolyn, Bryand and Benjamin came over from their house. It was a fun night with the family. There were THOUSANDS of nativities and it was so crazy cool in the church. I've never seen anything like it. It really was so impressive. There is no way pictures could show how awesome it was in there. They had a lot of really beautiful ones, but it seemed like the silly/cute ones were my real favorites..... here are just a few....

My cute momma and me before going in.

Cupcake nativity... SO CUTE!!!!

I was on the hunt for a nativity of pigs, this was as close as I got...

I really think Santa looking over baby Jesus really brings the true meaning of Christmas

God Bless Texas Y'all

The moose nativity was probably the most well-done silly one. We all liked it.

This was from the international section. This one was from Germany.. I thought it was so funny and weird.... it was my favorite one. I'd totally put it in my house.

In front of the church they had a life-size nativity, my mom REALLY wants my dad to build this for her. I am sure its only a matter of time.

Cuase One Little Christmas Tree Can Light Up The World

So I've been wanting to decorate for Christmas for like 2 weeks. I put it off for a little while but then this past weekend, I totally gave in and did it. They also started playing Christmas music, which I listen to all day at work. I didn't want to go completely all out because I'm being "Financially Responsible" ....blah blah blah blah.... but I did get the tree and get it decorated, or started at least. I LOVE IT. Now whenever I watch my shows, I turn off all the lights and turn on the tree and its just perfect. I still have some additions to make to it.. but it looks better in person than on this picture.

ONE WEEK UNTIL THANKSGIVING....... 37 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bird Invasion 2010

The Colony, TX. ....My New Home. Apparently, it is also the home of every bird in the world. I am pretty sure that ALL birds have migrated to The Colony, TX for the winter which has resulted in me and Liz feeling like we live in a zoo. Everytime we go to Wal-Mart, or to dinner, or anywhere really, we are amazed at the amount of birds. I will try to get a better picture, its hard to photograph birds, but they are EVERYWHERE.

Like I said.. not the greatest picture, but the birds just fill the ENTIRE parking lot.

They will line every power line, ever inch of the tops of buildings, they crowd on top of parked cards, they completely fill the trees, and then randomly, they will all fly and seriously the entire sky will turn black because there will be so many birds. They don't really get scared by the cars or people, so you can just park right next to em and walk pretty close. It is so strange.

Plus its as loud as heck. It seriously is crazy how thing so small as a bird can be so deafening when there are 10324238547938275 of them in a small space. I dont' know what it is about the Wal-Mart in the Colony, but the little black birds sure do love it.

Yay Longhorns, Fight Fight FIGHT

Friday night was Davey's first playoff game and Me, Liz and Mom went with Joanna. It was SO much fun. Crazy game with some of the weirdest plays I've ever seen. It was the one of the coldest nights we've had in Texas so far, so we were all bundled up. And poor Liz had gotten sick so she kept running to the bathroom under the stands to throw up. But other than that I really had so much fun!!

Davey #32

Poor Liz made it as long as she could. I took her home at the fourth quarter. She made it 2/3 of the way there before we let her puke at a 7-11.... one of 3 parking lots that got the royal treatment that night. HAHA.

Mom, Me, Joanna, Liz

Mom was FREEZING. She was so funny. She couldn't get warm, so I showed her how I used to wear my coat when walking through the blizzards in Rexburg. It worked, but she was laughing too hard to keep it over her nose.

Something I learned today

So I have an hour for lunch everyday.. but I sort of work in the middle of nowhere, plus I try not to eat out everyday, so I basically have this hour that I don't know what to do with. A lot of days, I end up at Wal-Mart just wandering around, talking to my parents, or getting stuff for the apartment. But I kind of have realized that I'm wasting a lot of time and money driving to a store for no good reason. I rarely make it out without something.

So Yesterday on my Wal-Mart run, I decided my purchase would be a book and I'd use the hour everyday to do some reading. I had gotten really good at reading books while I was at Utah, and I kind of liked it. So I thought this would be a good way to keep up with that. My first lunch-hour book is......

I don't have a lot opinions about him considering I was 12 when he was elected... However, I saw him on Oprah for about 2 minutes and he was talking about what he was thinking when September 11 happened and the things that were going through his mind, and it occurred to me it might be kind of interesting to read.

75 pages in...... there are about a million things I've never known about him and its just kind of interesting to hear his about his experiences in his own words. So far, I'm satisfied with this purchase. There are about 400 pages left to go, I'll let you know if it worth your time!!