Dear So and So On

Dear Deer,

I really don't want to hit you.  Please stop jumping in front of my car!


Dear Carly,

I can't make it stop raining.  You'll have to pee in wet grass.  Life is tough, get over it!


Dear Cinnamon Broom,

I heart you.  You are the best $5.99 I ever spent!


Dear Weatherman,

I'm starting to wonder what you are smoking.


Dear Rude So and So,

Santa is watching!


Dear Brighton,

Please stop making gorgeous new red purses that I absolutely MUST have!


Dear Bank,

Do you give purse loans?  It's a really cute one!


Dear New Neighbor,

Do you really think hammering is appropriate at 10:30 P.M???  Knock.  It. Off.

Love,
KK

Birthday Girl

This is Lexy, my little sis through Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

She turned 11 today!

I can't see her today, so I let her open her presents on Sunday before we went shopping.

Remember when I took these pictures?  Well, it worked nicely and I was able to buy exactly what she wanted.  Happy Birthday Lexy, I hope you had a great day!

For an Angel

Sunday morning I was feeling a little sad that my Christmas shopping is pretty much all done and wrapped. Don't be too jealous, I only have about 5 people to buy for, plus Carly and a few small things or baked goods for friends, extended family and co-workers.  Anyway, I was trying to think of anyone else that I needed to buy for (which is really just an excuse to go shopping).  I kept thinking I had forgotten someone.  Then it hit me... I hadn't gotten an Angel Tree kid yet!

I needed a new and different idea to entertain my little sis Lexy.  She only gets to pick our activity one weekend a month, because she always chooses Incredible Pizza Company!  Not that I'm complaining, I really like their pizza and I especially like to see her smile.  But we need a little variety!  So, I picked her up and we headed to the mall to pick a child from the Angel Tree.

She picked a little boy her age.  That made our shopping a lot easier.  I just kept asking her, would your friends at school wear this?  Would they play with this?

Before long we had toys and clothes for him, that she assured me boys her age would like.  That is a robotic bug in her right hand.  It kind of creeped me out, but she thought it was the greatest thing ever!

We had a lot of fun and I'm so proud of her for looking for things that he would really like.  I know it was a challenge for her to pick out presents for someone else and walk away with only a pretzel.  She did a great job though!

Christmas in November

I finished up my Christmas shopping this weekend.  Carly always gets a new bed for Christmas.  Her bed is usually gross by the end of the year!  I know I could just take the cover off and wash it, but for some reason that makes her want to pee on it. She is such an odd little dog.  Anyway, I didn't see any reason to make her wait since she doesn't know when Christmas is or what it is for that matter.  She'll spend the next several days walking in circles on it and trying to dig in it, so that it feels just right!

The danger of course, with all this shopping is finding things for myself.  I didn't do too bad this time.  I found this sign which is super cute and was only $4!  It's so true, the 2 hours we walk a day are as much for me as for her.  When I can finally get her a yard, I'll still be walking her, because I need it!

My parents had an early Christmas this year too.  Thanks to the Black Friday sale at Apple, my Dad got the Apple TV thing.  I still don't really get it, but I'm sure once I see it in action it will make sense.  He's really excited, so I guess Mom Santa made the right choice.

My Mom got a MacBook for Christmas.  You might remember that I hated mine had trouble adjusting to mine at first.  But with a little help from the smarty-pants geniuses and a lot of practice, I've gotten used to it.  My Mom really likes mine and so Dad Santa got her one too.  

Friday night we went back to my apartment to work on teaching Mom how to use her new toy.  I can't believe I don't have a picture of this.  What was I thinking? You'll just have to use your imagination.  Mom, Sarah and I were all sitting there each with our matching MacBooks on our laps for hours helping Mom figure things out.  Now that is Thanksgiving in 2009!  

Poor Dad was stuck with my old Dell, but at least we didn't leave him out completely.  Now that they are back home, I bet he is already setting up his new toy.  I like shoes, clothes, purses, etc. but Christmas is a lot more fun when everyone gets a new toy to play with!  

Calm Friday

Top 10 Reasons I'm Thankful to be Working on Black Friday

10. I avoid the lines of crazy people who spent the night waiting to get into the store to save $5.

9. I actually get up later than the "early-birds" trying to get the best deals.

8. Since I have no one to talk to, I have time to catch up on projects.

7. There are plenty of parking spaces at work.

6. By the time I get to the mall, there are plenty of parking spaces there too.

5. I avoid wasting money on a "good deal" for an item I didn't even need in the first place.

4. I get dibs on taking time off at Christmas.

3. My patients feel bad that I have to work, so they are extra nice.
2. Basically I get paid to do nothing.  It is usually a day.  Who is going to come in to see us the day after Thanksgiving?

1. No traffic on the way to work makes me happy.

God Bless Us Every One

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving!  My parents and Sarah are here and we have had the best day.  Sarah lives with my parents and works with my Mom at Worldview Academy.  She's one of the family and adorable!  

I have a tiny apartment with no room to cook dinner and I don't even have a table to sit at (I eat on the couch), so we went to the Cracker Barrel.  It was great and I never want to cook on Thanksgiving again.  No cooking, no dishes, no getting up early, etc.  We waited 45 minutes for a table, so clearly we are not the only smarty pants in town!  Sarah's parents were at their own Cracker Barrel having dinner at the same time, so it was like a big family dinner.  

Here are my parents and Sarah and I.

Then we went to the movies.  We were early, so we had time to play and took pictures with all the Christmas decorations.

We got to wear fun glasses to see A Christmas Carol in IMAX 3D. It was great. OK, the movie was the story you all know, but the 3D part was really cool. Actually it was cold.  We were freezing and I'm pretty sure it wasn't really that cold in the theater.  It just seemed that way when it looked like it was actually snowing all around us!

Now we are watching the parade that we recorded this morning.  Did I mention we didn't get up until 10:30?  I told you, it has been the best Thanksgiving ever!  And now we are reading the paper to see where they need to shop while I'm hardly working tomorrow.

I'm thankful for each of you who come by to read my little blog everyday. Happy Thanksgiving and may the shopping begin!

80 Years Young

Here are a few pictures of our big surprise birthday party for my Grandma a few weeks ago.

This is my Grandma's adorable little church in Beagle, Kansas where we had the party.

By this point, she knows she is walking into something!

They had convinced my Grandma that I didn't come and when she saw me I think we both teared up a little.  (I mean obviously, I love her the most...of course I would be there!)

In case you can't see them behind her, we had 4 huge cakes.  I'm pretty sure they will be having leftover cake after Thanksgiving dinner this week.  It was delicious though!

My aunt and cousins served lots of cake and punch.  I was busy taking pictures or I would have gladly helped them.  Ah-hem, moving along...

Here she is greeting some of her friends and neighbors.  There were about 100 guests and they all love her!  She is the one everyone in the community knows they can count on when they are in need.

This is my mom and my aunt (my mom is the shorter one).  Can you see how we would get confused when we were little and run to the wrong mommy?  (They are both beautiful though, hi mom!)

My cousin Emily (who belongs to my aunt above), my Grandma and I have had many fun adventures over the years.  We live entirely too far away from each other!

My niece and nephew were the only great grandkids that could make it to the party, but trust me she has many.  Don't ask me to count though, it's late and I already took my cough medicine.

Whenever we are together, we have get to take millions thousands soooo many family pictures.  This group includes my Grandma, her kids and their spouses, grandkids and great grandkids.  All of her children made it and about half of the grandkids and great grandkids were there.  At Christmas she'll just cut and paste pictures of the others onto this one for her card!  (Have I mentioned she's a cyber Grandma?  She can do more with digital pictures than I can and she's on Facebook!)

Here are all the family members who were able to come up to celebrate her big day.

I hope you had the greatest birthday ever Grandma!  I think we should go to Disney World for your 90th!  Who's in?

If It Wasn't So Cold Up There

So last night, I was all happy about it being Thanksgiving.  My parents are coming; everyone is on vacation; blah, blah, blah.  With all that running through my head, I managed to fall asleep about 1 this morning!

Fast forward to 6:30 this morning when the alarm goes off.  Carly jumped as she heard new and colorful words spew from my mouth as I searched for the snooze button.  (I'm not really a morning person.)

What was that going off for?  Isn't it Thanksgiving break?

Oh yeah, there is no Thanksgiving break, its a normal Monday!  In fact, we only get Thursday off, so expect me to be really cranky on Friday!  (And if you see me at the mall, you must say I looked so sick and must have been on the way to the hospital, wink wink!)  Oh, I kid, I am strongly considering would never call in sick for Black Friday!

I always get annoyed this time of year.  Why can't they put Thanksgiving on Friday so we can have a long weekend and actually go somewhere?

I thought I'd Google Thanksgiving to find out why it's in the middle of the week.  You see, my brother thinks Thanksgiving is on Thursday because they both start with TH.  I find it odd that our founding fathers would pick a date for a holiday solely because it was cute and all matchy-matchy with the day of the week.  Here's the thing, so far I just have a bunch of boring stuff about so and so said this Thursday and then another so and so said this Thursday, etc.  So maybe they did pick it because it sounds cute.  Who knows!

But, I learned that in Canada they celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October.  Now they are thinking!  Who cares if your holidays sound cute with the days of the week, you get a long weekend, with time to travel to grandmother's house and cook.

It's enough to make me move up there.  Oh but wait, I forgot about the weather.  Never mind, I'll stay here in warm and sunny South Texas, but I still reserve the right to be grumpy on Friday morning!

On a brighter note, remember this post where I complained about this company?  Well after that post, I got an email saying they would send me a new copy and they were sorry it did not work.  I thought, yeah right, we'll see and completely forgot about it.

Today I came home and there was a fed-ex sticker on the door.  When I went to the office, I saw that it was a package from them with the new game.  AND the new one works!  I take back everything I said. Feel free to buy their games, maybe even on Black Friday.  Just think of me while you are shopping and I am sitting at work eating chocolate all day to console myself!

I have to say I'm quite thankful for our weather down here, so I'll let them keep their Monday version of Thanksgiving up there in Canada.  I am also quite thankful for a job I love, even though they make us work the day after Thanksgiving.  But for the record, I vote for a Friday or Monday change!

I'm a Smart Girl

My little sis, Lexy is turning 11 next week. I knew this, but just in case, she reminded me several times today. :) Of course Christmas is hurdling towards us faster than a speeding bullet, as well.  That means, I need to get shopping for birthday and Christmas presents.

All I remember from when I was her age is E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.  I won an all-expense paid trip to California when I was her age to see the E.T. movie, go to a cast party, take inside tours, etc.  I'll never forget the day they called from John A. Brown (a department store way back then) to tell me I had won.  I ran to tell my mom, because they needed an adult to say I could go. My mom said it could not be true and to hang up!  Ha!  I asked if I called Grandma and she agreed to go, could I go then?  She rolled her eyes and said fine, assuming that would never happen.  Well, guess what?  My Grandma thought it would be fun and we flew to California for the first of several fabulous vacations we have taken together.    (Yes, she is the same Grandma whose birthday we just celebrated.)

Anyway, I don't remember wanting anything except E.T. that year.  I had E.T. clothes, shoes, bags, stuffed animals, everything!  I'm guessing that's not really what Lexy is into these days though.  I tried asking her what she wanted, but I didn't have a clue as to what she was talking about.  So, today I had a great idea.  We went window shopping!

We went to Toys R Us and I took hundreds several pictures of her with many things she might like.  Now, when I go shopping I will just pull out my phone and see the pictures of exactly what she wants.  I told you I was a smart girl!

Of course, we took some time to play as well!

Yes, that is a whoopee cushion and I should go ahead and apologize to her mom now for letting her get it!  I couldn't send her home with out anything after looking at all those fun new toys and she won it fair and square at Incredible Pizza.

I hope your Sunday was as much fun as ours was!

Gotta Dance

Today my niece performed at a Dance Festival in Boerne (sounds like burn-ee).  I danced ballet, tap and jazz all through school, so I couldn't wait for her to start having recitals.  I have great memories of those days and love seeing the excitement in her eyes.  My brother, of course, reminded me the whole time how his childhood was ruined by spending an entire Sunday in May every year at my dance recitals.  Blah blah blah :)

Here she is waiting for her turn.  She loved watching all the "big" girls dance.

Her brother was waiting with me for her performance.  I'm sure he felt the same way my brother did, back in the day.  I say it's good for them!  Life is pretty much about waiting, right?

Marshall couldn't wait to give his sister her roses.  (She made sure to point out that they were selling roses....hint hint!)

She was so proud, she went around telling everyone which one her Daddy bought her and which ones her Mommy bought her.

What a fun day, now I want to get out my old videos.  Of course, I have no VCR, so that won't really work!