I've been tagged...

~Tagged~
I was tagged in the picture game.The object of the picture tag is to:
1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3) Explain the picture.
4) Tag 4 people to do the same.
No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.) Have fun!!!

Of course, you know I cheated, but I had good reason. The 4th picture in my 4th folder is a Christmas picture that I just posted earlier today because my computer puts them in order from newest to oldest. So, then I decided to do the fourth to last folder. Well, that one was just dumb. I know, that's the whole point, but it was a picture of a baby onesie. Stupid. Next, I randomly chose an old cd, but there are no folders. It's just a million and 3 pictures put together. Of course, I didn't like the 4th picture, and so now I am in a vicious cycle of going through cd's to find a picture I like. So, basically I didn't play the game right at all, but here's an old picture that I found that I'm claiming to be the fourth picture in the fourth folder. My guilty conscious wouldn't just let me put it up there without telling the truth.



This is a picture of Kaylee just after we moved back to Texas. She and I stayed at Mom and Dad's for the year while Steve was deployed to Afghanistan. It was a very hard time, but she could always make me smile. As you can tell, she was really into hats.


Now it's my turn to tag someone. I tag:

Amy
Angi
Michelle
Samantha

Christmas Pictures

I had planned on making a smilebox scrapbook of all the Christmas pictures, but at this point, I'm just going to plop some on here. Hope you enjoy them!

Merry Christmas!

We missed you all, but we were able to enjoy a nice, relaxing Christmas after all. I know you're all waiting for pictures. Here are a couple to get you started. I'll post more later. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Love to all!


Christmas Eve


Christmas morning

Making Memories

Since we couldn't go to Texas this year and especially since Steve will be deploying soon, I decided we needed to try extra hard to make some special memories for Kaylee. So, when I saw the gingerbread house kit at Wal-mart, I thought to myself, "perfect!" Kaylee waited anxiously as I finished some last minute cleaning, so we could start building the house. It was finally time to start, so I called her in and we began reading the instructions. First, put two sides together - hold for a few minutes, and continue with the rest of the walls. Wait 30 minutes. Put the roof on - hold for a few minutes. Wait 30 minutes before decorating. Okay, so now we're talking at least an hour before she can start the fun part. So, I started putting walls together, and Kaylee watched and waited while the walls fell apart and I put them back together again several times. This lasted for about an hour, and then we had to wait the 30 minutes before putting the roof on. At this point, she got bored and went to watch TV. I finally got the roof on, but we had to let it sit for another hour as it kept slipping down every few minutes. I eventually got it done, and Kaylee and I decorated it. After the explosion of icing all over the kitchen, I now realize why we only made one gingerbread house when I was little. When I told Mom I had bought a gingerbread house kit, she simply commented, "that sounds fun." Now I know that she was actually secretly cackling to herself. Here are some pictures of Kaylee decorating her house.

One more thing...

...oh yes, one more thing - every Christmas present, including Santa's, I bought online and had it sent to Texas. Now, we have to try to buy everything again before Christmas and in a snow storm. Hooray!

Home again, home again, jiggety jig

Well, after 6 1/2 hours we are back home. We left at 4:00 this afternoon to pick up our friend, Chris, who bless his heart, rode with us through the snow storm, so that he could bring our car back home. We were going to stay in a hotel tonight since our flight left at 5:30 tomorrow morning. After Chris dropped us off, we found out our flight had been cancelled and nothing is going to Houston until the 26th. (This is the part where I started bawling.) So, do we stay in an uncomfortable room and have Chris come back tomorrow, or have him turn around and come get us. We had him come back. Poor Chris, he was half-way home already when we got in touch with him. I feel like the worst friends in the world! So, he got back, we dropped him off, and we're now back home where we get to unpack. The storm is terrible. I was so scared, and felt horrible that we drug Chris into it all. I'm so sad not to be in Texas for Christmas, but we did everything we could and it just didn't work out. I'll tell you all Merry Christmas and we'll miss y'all when I can do it without crying. Love to all!


on the way to the airport - this was one of the good roads


waiting for Chris to come back


Outside our hotel room window that we paid for to sit in for approximately 2 hours.

Keep your fingers crossed

Our bags are packed, but now we're hoping that our flight doesn't get cancelled. Here's an article on the latest at Seatac. http://www.komonews.com/news/36529414.html