Well Hello There!!

Wow.  This is the longest I've ever gone without blogging.  It's just been super busy the last couple of weeks and we've been enjoying the recent snow.  KJ had snow days last Monday and Tuesday.  They could have went on Monday but Tuesday was pretty messy and it was probably good that they cancelled classes.  She's enjoying sledding down the hill in our backyard and the dog likes frolicking in the snow, too. 

For the first time in our family's history we cut down our own Christmas tree last week.  We went to
http://www.butlersorchard.com/, the same place we got our Halloween pumpkins.  It was a gorgeous day and we had so much fun.  Finding the perfect tree was a lot harder than I thought! 

KJ started volleyball practice two nights a week and is really enjoying it.  The other night we saw 3 deer walking down our street, 1 deer as I turned out of our sub-division, two more deer on the way to the school for practice and I saw 4 deer in someone's front yard on the way home. 

I've got most of my Christmas shopping done, Christmas cards are out, decorating is done.  I still have wrapping to do and one package to mail out.  We'll bake next week when my mom gets in.  My parents arrive on Saturday and T got in this past Saturday.  Her flight out of Memphis was delayed 3 hours due to the weather here.  We had some snow Saturday afternoon that turned into rain by the time her flight got in around 10 PM.  One of her residents was on her flight so I was glad she had someone to travel with.  Her "little" lives here in Arlington so I'm sure they'll get together over break. 

Cosmo flew to Bham Friday to do a few things at the house and do some lax stuff.  He got to see his lax boys on Saturday and ran into a bunch of friends Friday and Saturday nights.  He misses lax a little bit and is toying with the idea of coaching here.  Which I'm OK with. 

Hello Friday, my Old Friend!

Lots of football fun at work this week. Most of the staff seems to be Alabama fans, a couple of Auburn fans and a few LSU fans. We've all decorated our desks and today we are all wearing our "colors" (sounds very "LA Gang" doesn't it???). Since most of my Alabama shirts are more casual, I'm wearing black pants, a white v-neck sweater and a houndstooth scarf (I guess you could say that's my "OOTD"). My buddy Chuck is in head-to-toe purple and even has the little LSU logo sewn on the back of his jacket. Jill came into our morning meeting wearing an LSU helmet. It was pretty funny. One of the girls made a bunch of "Les Miles/More Saban" pins for us to wear and today is our weekly Friday group lunch. Of course this week's theme is a tailgate party (last week we did Halloween themed food). I made my famous chilli dip and brought in houndstooth napkins.

Lots of drama this week with a local football team and play-off eligibility. It was very confusing and the decision to let them play seemed to change daily. I feel bad for the seniors of the team involved but somewhere along the line, someone didn't do their job and verify a transfered student's eligibilty. I guess that's part of playing on a team. You win as a team, you lose/forfeit games as a team. All I know is our high school is playing tonight and has home field advantage.

November is starting off great! Pop turned 65 and the next day he had his follow-up cardiologist appointment (I can NOT believe we're almost at a year since the "Event"). Doctor B said everything looked great, my dad (and mom) have been keeping the weight off and have been eating very, very healthy and getting their exercise.

Cosmo has worked out everyone's FL schedules and made flights while I've handle the hotel end (natch). It will be very crazy but KJ is totally looking forward to some beach time! Whoop! Whoop!