Happy New Year's

Here is to a great 2008... Cheers!

Just Daisy

I don't have time to post or take pictures right now, but I decided to take a short break and snap some of Daisy since I haven't posted any of her lately :-)


In all her glory....

Guess what I got for Christmas :-)

Someone was on Santa's Nice list... Not really sure how I pulled that off :-)

I've been Hit...

Literally, physically..... seriously! I was driving on the freeway, minding my own business, going to work on Saturday (which stinks all on it's own) so that I can enjoy Christmas with out stressing about the upcoming deadline, when I heard tires screeching. I look over and BAM, then BAM again, and then finally BAM and I stop. Yes that was three BAMS! This girl slammed on her brakes to not hit the car in front of her ( traffic in that lane was slowing down) so instead her car turned and hit my car on the back passenger side. That spun my car back into her car again on the front part of my car and A LOT harder. That hit sent my car flying across the lane and slammed me into the concrete median dividing the two sides of the freeway. My head started pounding so I reached up and there was blood oozing out of my head. I FREAKED OUT. I'm ok I think, I have a nasty cut on my head that bled for a good two hours after the wreck, and feel like I got hit by a train. My whole body is achy, but no one was seriously hurt so I am sooooo thankful for that. I called 911, and I would like to say that they are not near so nice as those on Star people on those commercials :-) Here is how it went...

Me "I've been hit"

Operator "Where are you located"

Me "Across from Albertsons on XXXX (road)"

Me "I can't get out of my car"

Op "Are you hurt"

Me "I don't know"

Op "Do you need an ambulance"

Me "I don't know, my head is bleeding"

Op "OK I will send one just in case"

Ok seriously, I've been hit, can't get out of my car (that implies BIG wreck and body damage to either me or the car) and your asking me if you should send an ambulance. Your the expert here, what do you think. Anywho, the Fire and Ambulance guys were really nice and helpful. I didn't talk to the girl who hit me because she was across the street. Needless to say my car was not drivable. :-( Here are some pics from the towing place and my head. Pay no attention to my inch long roots that I should have gone again and fixed yesterday, but now I will have to wait until this cut heals. I can only imagine the pain of hair dye in an open cut for 25 to 30 minutes. Suck!!! No car and dark root... Merry Christmas. Oh, and I really wish the picture better displayed the trauma of the whole thing. Why do pictures never look as bad a the events when they happen. And now on to the show....

It's Baaackkkk!!!!

Don't you just love Texas weather. Friday was 83 and today(Sunday) just two days later it's 40. It was snowing in Thanksgiving and we will probably be back in shorts at Christmas. I envy those who can "put away" their summer cloths to free up room in the closet for the winter cloths and vise versa. But I wouldn't live anywhere else... well maybe Colorado because I also envy those who can go skiing whenever they want ;-)

Video Posts

Ok, I just posted my first video to blogger, and well, the quality lacks to say the least. So... I am going to test drive some new programs. Mi-Lo "whatever" . com is going Live in early 2008, so I need to find a good blog network that supports high res video files between now and then. So, stay tuned for updates on what is to come and sneak peeks at the new Mi-Lo for 2008! Thanks for a good 2007 and together we can make a great 2008!

Baby It's Cold Outside

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rocks!

As mentioned in a previous post, we headed out last weekend to the Jingle Bell Run held at Sundance Square in Downtown Ft Worth. A few snapshots from the festivities :-)


He got a little tired... and so did I :-)

And you can't forget

their big brother...

One More

A Sample of Christmas

with... you guessed it... Miss E! Ok, I swear I didn't alter her eye color, that is straight out of the camera. I think all the light from the glass ceiling really made this a good picture...

My Protege...

and in no way is this refering to my first car... hahaha. I loved that car, but anywho... I am speaking of Miss E, who loves to have her picture taken most of the time. Well, my sister has given Miss E her old camera from our childhood (we both had identical kiddy Kodak cameras) and over Thanksgiving Miss E wanted to "take pictures" and by that she meant that she wanted to play photo shoot where she got to "take" pictures ( there was no film in the camera). She was so cute. She would say "So who should we do next" My sister, Ethan, and Craig were they only ones to humor us :-) She got Craig in front of the tree, took his picture, and said, "Ok, you can go now"!! Too cute! So we were taking pictures, and I sat down on the floor, so she had to also. She is just the cutest thing EVER!!! Ok, enough procrastination, now I really have to go work on Christmas cards...

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle All the Way...

A rare self portrait.... Craig & I pre Jingle Bell run
We, along with Kathy, Weldon, Kyle, Kylee, Kim, Shane, Evan, Ethan, and Ella participated in the Jingle Bell run this year to support Kathy who has RA. Great cause, great event.. more pics to come :-)

Just One More...

for now :-) I love it when I "find" a picture. You see, when I am taking pictures for someone, I take A LOT of pictures to make sure we get that perfect smile, laugh, expression, and so on. So sometime a good one can hide for a day or two, but don't worry, I always find them :-) So here is miss E. I was afraid I did not get any special ones of just her. She was all about the snow for about 10 minutes then things when south really fast. Can you blame her? It was cold. However, it was fun for a little while...

Thanksgiving Recap... Round 2...

So this past weekend we headed out to West Texas to give thanks with my family. I was sad that I missed the big snow on Thanksgiving day. Yes you heard me right, a HUGE snow in West Texas on Thanksgiving! When I say huge snow, that means enough snow to build snowmen :-) We take what we can get around here, and we are lucky if it even snows once a year. So, this year, my sister and I took on the task of preparing the meal... all by ourselves... for the whole family... which neither one had done before. I've cooked one turkey in my life, and when I say I, I mean Craig has cooked a turkey and I helped... but mostly watched. Kim has never cooked a turkey, but she got a recipe from Kidd Kraddick so what else do you really need? I was slightly nervous because you cook the turkey in a brown paper grocery bag, but if Kidd Kraddick says it's good, then who are we to argue! His words are as good as gold in our book :-) So here is what we prepared:

The Menu:
Spiral Sliced Ham
Brown Bag Turkey
Stuffing
Turkey Gravy
Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Cream Cheese Corn
Deviled Eggs (Courtesy of Mom)
English Pea Salad (Again courtesy of Mom, basically because she is the only one who eats it))
Yeast Rolls
Fruit with Raspberry & White Chocolate Cream Cheese Dip (Again Mom)
Apple Crisp (all Shane's hard work)
Bread Pudding (all Shane again)

Against all odds, and with the help of Shane & Craig...
AND IT ALL TURNED OUT DELICIOUS!!!

The Turkey was soooooo tender and juicy. We were very proud of ourselves (we did a little victory dance after everyone left) Mission Accomplished :-)

On to the pictures...

The bird, I wish I would have gotten a pic with it in the bag :-(



Kim: The domestic diva
A few of the sides:

Craig & Ethan kicking it old school on the ORIGINAL Nintendo system


Of course my sister had the house already decorated for Christmas. Yes, outside lights and trees in every room.
And just a random pic of their piano. Some things just make for nice photography. I would like to say we all gathered around the piano and sang songs, but I'm pretty sure that has never happened in this family. Does anyone do that? I think it sounds great...
And guess what...

IT SNOWED AGAIN!!!! And this time I got to soak it all in... literally...



More snow day pictures soon...

I love the holidays! Happy Thanksgiving!!