Wii.....good times

We have gotten SO MUCH use and great family fun times out of our wii since we bought it a month or so ago! I use it a lot to exercise with, James does too and he has a BLAST doing it....love it so much more than a regular video game where you sit on your butt and wear out your thumbs...the wii is totally interactive, gets you up and moving and more times than not, I (and James too last nite actually!) am drenched in sweat from the workout you get using it...anyway, enough praising of the wii......

We took the Wii with us up to DFW for our week up there at Thanksgiving....and it got a lot of use at Grandma's house as well as Auntie Berta's house too! Here are pics of Freddy and Aly (my niece...Berta's youngest daughter) boxing each other. I dont think I have to tell you who whooped up on who and won! HA! :)

Uncle Pat's 60th Birthday

We took the week off for Thanksgiving and drove up to the Dallas/Ft Worth area the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving....as Uncle Pat was turning 60 and the family had a big surprise party planned for him! Although I was a COMPLETE slacker and didnt get any pics at his party or at Thanksgiving that week (don't know what was wrong with me, just was not in photographer mode I guess).....I did get some pics from the day/night that me, my sis, my mom and my three aunts spent at Berta's lake house that first Saturday nite.

Aunt Marsha made a BEAUTIFUL quilt for Pat and then was working on a patch for the back of it that she and the other sisters signed and she then hand sewed that on to the back of it. Its STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS as you will see from the pictures below....and is a leaf design....60 leaves in all, one for each year for Pat. Then i took some more outdoor shots early on Sunday morning when i woke up...cant get enough pics of the lake in the first morning light...its amazing!!

James has a new room

After the incident of the bb shots in the window at the front of the house...it made my decision to swap rooms with James room and my craft/scrapbooking/sewing room.
I had been kicking around the idea of it for some time. James room was at the front of the house (windows right above those that got shot below) and I had slept in there a few times and it is COLD by nature pretty much year round, and it could get a bit noisy, as it faced the main road that ambulances came up sometimes at night towards the hospital, could sometimes hear freeway traffic on a clear quiet night, etc...and he has always had somewhat of a dislike of that room in general, wont really play in there/go in there much on his own.

So, I figured now was a good time to swap. Fine with me as that room IS a little bigger for my craft room (darn! LOL!) and his room would then be at the BACK of the house and was a little cozied, not as cold in there etc. No time like the present then, while all my craft room stuff got moved out, to go ahead and let him choose a color to paint his walls. So off we went to get paint, he said he wanted blue...and he chose the color all on his own. So now all that is left is to put up all the cool star wars theme stuff I haevegotten him for christmas, and it will be complete! Here are pictures of the final product as far as the color he chose...its really a pretty color and is gonna look great with the colors in the posters/comforter I got him, etc. Will be sure and post more pics once Christmas is over and we get all the new stuff hung on the walls and the comforter set on the bed and all....

Air Show

Living as close to Ellington Field as we do, we are always THRILLED when it is the time of year for the air show as we pretty much have our own show right from our front yard! The circle around SUPER LOW over our subdivision as they are swinging around back towards the air show field and its a blast to hang out in the driveway/front yard and figure out where they are coming from next...sometimes they are RIGHT over head before you realize, and you know it from the sound without a doubt! We were all loving it! Trouble was, it was a bright sunny day and I was taking pics with my Nikon and it was NOT liking trying to focus looking straight up and into the sun most of the time...that and the fact that I REALLY need a zoom lens for my Nikon BAD...here are some of the shots I got anyway, you will get the idea of how up close and personal we were in our own front yard! :)

Shots Fired

One afternoon right before Halloween, I came home after work...pulled in the driveway and glanced over at the big windows that are on the front of the house (formal dining room windows) on the first floor of the house. Noticed there were circles on the windows and in a split second realized what they were....BULLET HOLES!

I flew into the garage and came running back out once I parked the car....sure as shit (pardon my french), there were bullet holes in the window! Looked like someone had taken target practice at my halloween decorations on the windows (and were a lousy shot as the missed them all). Come to find out, they were bb holes....as we have dual paned glass windows and there were like 3 bbs in between the panes of glass stuck in there.

Upon further inspection, we have 3 of them embedded in the wood of our front door, 3 other blemishes where others grazed the door (thank GOD they missed the gorgeous glass panes on the door and didnt shatter them) and also had 6 indentations on our garage door. Apparently someone must have drove up along the front of our house and had a field day....probably kids. Better hope they dont come back or their momma's wont have much of them left to get after once I got a hold of them...still angers me..cause it is so sensless. I mean, someone breaks in and takes something, at least you know the reason behind it? Anyway, here are the pics I took that day.

Halloween

So, James decided to be Darth Vader this year for halloween. No real reason, since he had never even seen a Star Wars movie before, had no clue who Darth even is! We were just in Party City looking at the wall of costumes, told him to pick one, and he said I want to be THAT ONE MOMMY!!! Think he liked the mask and the light saber...kid is no dummy! Its cool! So, darth it was.....now we are officially in Star Wars mode as we got him two of the six movies which he LOVES, and I am in the process of framing star wars movie posters and other cool star wars stuff for his walls of his room, and got him a star wars comforter for his bed (sssshhhhh...dont tell James...its all christmas gifts for him to open!)

Pics from Halloween and pumpkin carving:

The Lake House

Took some really cool pics at my sister's lake house the last couple trips up there....thought I would share....love it there, so peaceful and quiet...and breathtakingly beautiful at sunrise and sunset....