Merry Christmas!

As of 5:31 today I will be officially on vacation. Not going anywhere, but just taking some time off to do what we want. That being said, I don't know how much/if any I will be blogging on my vacation, so I wanted to wish you all a very wonderful Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to us!

So, following the Mike/Amy Christmas tradition, we opened our Christmas presents to each other this weekend. :) Merry Christmas to us!! We decided that since we don't have kids and we pay the bills in our house, we can do what we want...including having Christmas 9 days early!!

We're like little kids. We just can't wait! Woot! Woot!!

Happy 2nd Anniversary!

So since I've been so busy getting in the Christmas spirit, I completely overlooked a very special and important date: the second anniversary of my blog. When I started this thing over 2 years ago, I honestly thought it wouldn't last more than a 10 day fad. I have enjoyed the last 2 years of being able to put my thoughts, frustrations, comments, and the highlights of my life on paper...errr...the electronic kind.

So--Happy 2nd Anniversary Blog! Glad I still have you around! :)

More travel

I've never had a passport before. I've never traveled abroad before. Mexico is as far outside of the US as I have traveled. But yesterday, I finished step one of one hundred (not really 100, but who knew there was so much to getting a passport??): I filled out the application. YAY!

Step one: CHECK!

Turkey here I come!!

The Office

Being snowed in this weekend, I was only able to get one productive thing done, and was able to do it in a record 2 days.

Mike and I watched the entire second season of "The Office" on DVD (yes we are a little late on this bandwagon) and watched all of the season 3 episodes that have aired to catch up. After all that I only have one thing to say:

JIM & PAM!! JIM & PAM!! I want Jim and Pam!! Screw Karen. Bring back JIM & PAM!!

Stuck but having fun

What do you get when it's someone's birthday, there are 10 inches of ice and snow on the ground, and it's a family tradition to go out to eat to the birthday person's choice restaurant ON their birthday? You get five and a half hours of family FUN.

We had to be crazy to even attempt to drive 30 miles from Sand Springs to Texas Roadhouse in honor of my sister's big celebration of turning 2-8, but we are one dedicated family. So we all (6 of us) piled in my parents' car and slowly but surely sled our way into the parking lot and had a wonderful meal.

After dinner, it was of course dark outside, which means the 10 inches of snow and ice were refreezing on the roads, and they became "slick as glass." I know this because my dad repeated that phrase 572 times on our drive home. And if it weren't for the idiots that thought they were invincible driving 50 mph on the ice-covered roads, our evening might have been a little more uneventful. We watched at least 4 cars spin in circles on the highway right before our eyes and countless cars on the side of the road stuck. However, it wasn't until we were 500 feet from our exit off of I-44 to Sand Springs that the evening went from long to longer. We came to a dead stand still. About 3/4 of mile ahead of us, a semi and two cars had collided (which we later found out from the trucker who had a CB in front of us). After 15 minutes we realized we were going to be sitting there a while, so Dad put the car in Park.

It's not everyday that you can get out and stand in the middle of the highway, but we did. And we documented it. Oh yes-what better way to make an hour and half wait on the highway more fun than to take pictures of it?

Happy Birthday Sista! I know this was one of the more memorable ones!! :)

Having some fun while we wait...and wait...and wait...

Mike running to Braum's to make a pitstop.

Cheri' hanging outside.