Engagement Party & Super Bowl

Saturday afternoon we drove to Houston for my niece Jennifer and her fiance Marc's engagement party. My sister was hoping that we would be there early to help with the set up, but we got there just in time for the party....sorry Kathy. It was a beautiful party and my sister Kathy, along with the help of my mom and other sister Chris who lives there. One brother-in-law did the sound system. Luckily, when it was time for the party to end, everyone pitched in with the clean up. Then we drove back home early Sunday because Ruth had a birthday party and of course....SUPER BOWL. Jeff and I wanted the Cardinals, and the girls wanted the Steelers, so there was great cheering and boo ing going on in the house. So our team lost, so quickly off to bed for the girls!~

ICE-again!

The city and all surrounding cities were shut down due to ice....again. It would be so much nicer if it was snow.....a little bit of snow, right Erin? We mostly just stayed in so no one would slip and break anything. Sara ventured out, but Ruth stayed in because she was not feeling so great.

Happy New Year

We went to our favorite Chinese restaurant, Sara decked out to the nines. The dragon dance celebration was cancelled due to COLD weather....good thing because we were NOT going out in that cold.

TEXAS ice

Well, the kids are back to school-YEA!!!-and now the weather changes drastically. On Saturday it was 84, and today, well, we had an ice storm. Luckily Jeff was able to work from home, and the kids were at school before it got bad, and it ended just before they got home. I was sure that their heavy bus had better traction then my van. Besides, the ground was still so warm from a few days ago, the the ice was mostly on thing besides the ground. Our neighbor lost a large branch from one of their trees. I was outside propping up my bushes....burr!

2009

When Ruth was small and she wanted to stay up to watch the new year come in, I was very smart and we watched the new year come in on the other side of the world, then she was in bed by 9. BUT, now that they are older and gratefully smarter, mom is now obliged to actually stay up until midnight. We enjoyed our bubbly sprite upon the strike of midnight.

We played one of our favorite games, UNO attack until midnight.