my last post of 2010!

hey everyone! this is gonna be a quickie cause i gotta get ready to celebrate the new year!(more on that later...)here's how my trip to houston has gone so far...

after missing my flight for the first time EVER thanks to my alarm clock not going off i got here just two hours off schedule on monday night. HUGE thanks to the ticket agent who made sure i had a seat on the next flight instead just putting me on stand by which is the normal routine for people who miss their flights.

the past few days have just basically been hanging out at home. rylee is just a tiny bebe so she doesn't do much. she mostly just:

looks pretty...


and shows off her gorgeous smile:


connor is two now and talking SO much. it's been interesting de-coding his two-year-old words. we play together and hug a lot. when we're not doing that he's busy:

being a really, really ridiculously good looking male model:


making sure the camera works:


golfing using dinosaurs:


and drinking starbucks:


rylee(or ryry as connor calls her) is more beautiful in person. i could literally sit all day just holding her and listening to her "talk". it's the best sound in the world. i can't believe i'm leaving the day after tomorrow. this trip seemingly took forever to get here and is going by SO fast! i'm definitely going to be super sad to leave.

i mentioned new years eve earlier...this MAY be the best new years eve i've ever had. not just because i'm spending it with my sister, but because we're actually going out to celebrate! one of my bro-in-laws friends had extra room in his limo and invited us along for the ride. SUPER stoked about this. random fact: i've NEVER been in a limo. never ever. never even looked inside a limo. yes, i clearly live a poor, sheltered life. we're getting all dressed up and going to some nice bars around houston to ring in 2011. can't think of anywhere else i'd rather be!

all of you have a safe and fun new years! see all your lovely faces in 2011!

grandma got ran over by a reindeer (ok not really,but read this anyway)

well hello there, so we meet again. i've mentioned loving sundays before, but for some reason they always put me in a blogging mood as well. so here i am, on a sunday, blogging for you! enjoy.

first of all i just wanna update everyone who's concerned on my stupid lame-o back. i went to the doctor and had an x ray taken. he said it looks like i most likely have a shattered disk in my lower back and he wanted me to get an mri. i've gotten that done and on monday i will be calling to make a follow up appt with my doctor. hopefully the mri will show something significant and i can get this whole situation done and over with! luckily i've had pain medication to get me through this cause it's been a loooooooong process. it was two weeks just between my doc appt and my mri appt!

/boring stuff

christmas is only 5 days away!!!! can you even believe it?? my roommate decorated our house so it's all festive and cute:

most people put stars or angels on top of their christmas tree-we totally rock the cat in the hat hat


heidi is obsessed with santas


the stockings are hung on the staircase with care



also our kitchen is all lit up with pretty lights, i love it! i'm gonna be sad to see it go away when she takes it all down in march (haha)

i'm totally soaking in every single festive thing i can this year. i participated in the secret santa at work, something i REALLY didn't want to do, but am really glad i did. my classroom is decorated like crazy,and we've been playing every christmas cd we have nonstop since thanksgiving. one of my most FAVORITE things about the holidays(and this will come as a shock to NO ONE) is all the holiday FOOD that comes around. you know how there are certain things you only eat certain times of the year? mine is white chocolate/peppermint anything. it probably my most favorite combination of flavors of all time and i get so excited this time of year when all the companies start coming out with their wc/p covered treats.

as much as i say i hate being cold and i hate winter and i want summer to come back asap, i have to admit that the holidays just seem to make up for all the things i hate. i love them.

speaking of things i LOVE....

i'm leaving for houston in a week :) i've been counting down for this trip for about two months now so it's hard to believe it's actually finally almost here!

i finally get to meet this little face:


and blow bubbles with this little guy:


did i mention that it's gonna be something like 70 degrees??

STOKED.

since i'm in the festive, holiday spirit i will leave you with one of my most favorite chrismas songs of all time. it's not a traditional one, but it's one that i've heard probably 17 million times and i laugh out loud EVERY time i hear it. if you don't laugh then you have no soul and santa should give you worms and hepatitis c in your stocking. merry christmas, everyone!

a tradition continues...

i'm sure i've mentioned before that i'm a very traditional person. i lovelovelove tradition. i love hearing about others peoples traditions, i love current traditions, and i love making new traditions. in a world where things are so unsure and always changing, i find comfort in knowing that when a certain time comes,certain things happen. one of my most favorite recently made traditions is going to A Victorian Country Christmas with my sister-from-another-mister,amanda.

i was going to tell you about all the radical things we did in this post, until i re-read my post about vcc from last year and realized we did the exact same things...one year later.

so i guess there's really nothing else left to share except my favorite pictures we took this year! which works out,because that's always my favorite part anyway :)

if/when i ever decide to get married, i expect my diamond to be at LEAST this big. someone better start saving now.(ignore the date on the picture. i swear that is my current hand and not my hand from almost two years ago)

we wanted to take a picture with santa but it was $20 bucks, which was a little steep for our liking, so we settled for the next best thing-creepster frosty:


you guys probably thought santa and the north pole were ACTUALLY up north, but really, they're just to the right:


crazy cheese face that shows how excited i am to be holding a just purchased,fresh out of the oven fair scone in my hands(by then i had figured out how to turn the stupid date stamp off my camera):


can't WAIT to do this again next year. love your gusts bee elle! thanks for being a part of one of my favorite traditions <3