Nikki's Baby Girl

My friend Nikki stopped over to my mom's place with her brand new baby, Nevaeh. Needless to say we spent the next hour an a half gushing over her. Look at her santa suit!!

Joe and the baby

Look at those cheeks!!

Doesn't she looks like she wants to fly?

Travel to Minnesota

I'll post pictures of our car soon...

Joe and I decided to drive to Minnesota for christmas. It was peaceful and went by very quickly, until the last 150 miles. There was a storm we were trying to beat and we ended up right in the thick of it. The wind was gusting across the freeway blowing so much snow you couldn't see more than a few feet infront of you. Every mile or so there would be a pile of cars blown into the ditch. We were white knuckling it for about an hour and a half. Finally we were less than five miles from my mothers house and a gust of wind hit the car and at the same time I hit a patch of ice, we started to fishtale, I knew it was going to happen, "Oh no" I tried to pump the brakes and car started to spin, the front of the car spun into a snow bank, a WHOOSH of snow covered the entire car and I kept thinking in my head, "Please don't flip over, please don't flip over." We stopped with the front of the car facing the freeway and the rear of the car stuck in the bank. Joe tried to get out of his side of the car and had to dig it out. He was wearing sandles from this morning, when we left Texas it was 68 degrees, when we got to Minnesota seventeen hours later it was -6 degrees. Literally 30 seconds after he got out of the car a man pulled over and towed us out of the bank and we made it to my mothers house. The bumper was hanging off the left side of the car, but the rest of the body looked fine. We are fine but a little shook up. eh.

Pretty Girl

I loved this picture! One bird was in love with Cz and I caught this pic of the birdie mid landing.

Secret Shame- The Twilight Series

My coworker Mendy was talking to me one day about this so called Twilight series, "You have to read it!" she gushed. I wasn't completely sold- but oddly tempted. I've been aching for a new book to read and what was the harm? Or so I thought...in passing at the grocery story they had the book for six bucks- why not? I gingerly picked it up and threw it into the cart- title side down - so that no one would notice that a 28 year old woman had just bought a book written for teenagers. I pictured in my head the throngs of teenagers on MTV screaming over the new movie I really had no interest in seeing. I brought the book home and after Cezanne had gone to bed I started to read. 300 pages later I realized I needed to go to bed but couldn't wait to find out what happened next. Just one more chapter- hours passed in a blink! I finished in two days reading anytime I had a chance to, while I ate, while I was cooking, while helping Cezanne with her homework. When I was finished I asked Joe to get the second one, Mendy gave me the third and Joe had to go to several different stores to find the fourth. I'm more than half way through the fourth book-it's a great story. My mom said there are worse things I could do right now than loose myself in books. If nothing else it's something to do when I can't sleep.