Merry Christmas

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Classic

The picture says it all.  I will remember this one forever.  I promise she was a perfect angel 2 seconds before this was take.

The end of my love affair

All things must come to an end and on Saturday I ended my love affair with my Blackberry. For the last 8 years we have been inseparable. Here are a few of the things we did together:

1. From 2006 - 2008 we boarded an American Airlines flight 143 times and logged over 300,000 miles in the air.

2. We traveled all over the Caribbean and Hawaii together. Even though Chris made me turn you off I was still able to sneak a little time with you while he was asleep.

3. I dropped you in the toilet when I took a little potty break at happy hour one night and to my surprise you came back to life.

4. I left Blackbeery #9 in a rental car in San Francisco in 2008. Or as I like to say "I left my heart in San Francisco".

5. You entertained me while i spent countless hours in the airport and at doctors appointments over the last few years.

6. You were the first thing I woke up to every morning.

7. You froze your butt off with me in Ottawa, Canada one February when I was locked in a hotel room with the flu you rang every time Chris called to check on me.

8. You were a great alarm reminding me when to feed Harper.

9. You got me through at least 2,986 boring Marriott meetings.

10. You were a great companion.

I will miss you Crackberry but I had t trade you for an IPhone because they are awesome and I can read an excel spreadsheet much better on them.

RIP little friend!

Perception

As I was leaveing for work yesterday I ran into one of my neighbors. It was great to see her so I stopped to chat. She is a single Mom who teaches elementary school and has great personality. Super fun girl and is always the life of the party.

As I got out of the car she complimented me and said that I looked pretty in my business suit and how much she liked my hair. I'm never one to accept compliments very well so I laughed it off and told her thank you. She mentioned how she thinks my job must be so much fun and told me that she would love to have my life. It was a great compliment but made me a little uncomfortable. The entire way to work I thought about her comment and couldn't help to say... "If she only knew how my life was going". Guess her perception is much different from my reality.

Kimmi this blog is for you. Did you know this....

My hair looked different because I overslept and didn't have time to wash it. It was very dirty a little greasy and may have even smelled dirty. I was worried all day that someone would notice. Thanks for making me feel a little better about it.

On my drive in to work I spent half an hour on the phone with one of my sales people having a very uncomfortable conversation that I'm still not sure I have let go of yet.

My daughter cried so hard when I left the house that I started to cry and that was the exact moment that I saw you. I wiped my tears away before I got out of my car to say hello (bet you didn't see that).

I love my job and I work for an amazing company but in the last 6 months I have been at a stress level of 236%.

My lovely suit is one size too small so I had to pour myself into Spanx to so it would fit right making it difficult to breathe all day.

The cute trendy sunglasses you complemented me on are the ones I got off the sales rack at Dillard's during the summer clearance sale. I bought 4 pairs that day and they are the only ones that have not broken yet.

My point here is that perception is always different then reality. Yesterday morning you thought I had it all together when in reality I felt like I was just hanging by a string. So I ask my bolg followers out there (all 4 of you) what do you think people's perception is of you? And how does it differ from your reality?

Kimmi - I think you are an amazing Mom and teacher. You are able to bring great amounts of joy into the lives of those around you and are tons of fun to hang out with. You are always happy and willing to help anyone out. That is my perception of you.

Thank God for perception.

Ho Ho Holiday

Can't beleive it is already that time of the year. here are a few things I love about Christmas:

1. Wrapping Paper - I've never been a fan of gift bags. I love to pick up pretty wrapping paper and wrap all my gifts. I think there is more excietment in tearing off wraping paper then just pulling tissue out of a bag. I love the sound of the paper as it crinkles and the anticipation of what is under it.

2. Christmas lights - I could drive around every night and look at them. There is even a house in my neighborhood that has one of those awesome light shows set to music. It makes me happy everytime I see it.

3. Starbucks Red Cups - They make me happy and my skinny pepermint mocha taste better when it comes in one of these.

4. Christmas Dresses - I could buy haper 100 of these. I LOVE them all. Of course she only has a few places to wear them so if you see my kid up at Market Street wearing a beautiful silk plaid holiday dress to do a little grocery shopping. It's not beacause she is going anywhere her Mommy just couldn't resist.

5. Peppermint Bark

6. Christmas Ornaments - I buy thousands of them every year. I also collect the Whitehouse Christmas ornaments and have a tree dedicated to just them. They were handed down to me from Chris's Mom and I have continued to add to them every year.

7. Christmas Vacation - Best Christmas movie ever.

That's all for now. I'm sureI'll add more to the list.

Happy Birthday Harper

Last week we celebrated Harper's first birthday with our family. She had such a great time. Below are the pics.

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Harper can say Mama, Dada, Nanny, BoBo, Bye-Bye, Night Night, and Baba (Bottle). She can also say her own name and does this when she sees pictures of herself.

Harper loves to play with her cousins and loves Beau (Bo Bo) the most. She is in the 95th percentile for weight, height and head. Weighe 24 pounds and is 31 inches long.

One Cool Night

I have never been a sports fan. Maybe it's because I was dragged to 2,578 football games in my lifetime. My Dad and brother are huge sports fans and Sundays were always spent wathcing football. Dad played Baseball and Gerrod played football in college these were the only two sports I was ever really exposed to growing up.

Chris is a huge sports fan. He loves it all.... Football, Golf, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball. He goes nuts when the Olympics are on and has even become a fan of curling. However Hockey has always been his true love. When our relationship turned serious 10 years ago I knew that I would need to learn to love Hockey as well. It was the year the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup and that was enough to get me hooked. Chris has spent hours teaching me about the game and answering my stupid questions over and over again. Two years ago Chris got his wish and we became season ticket holders for the Dallas Stars. I have enjoyed going to games, even when I was 9 months pregnant. Every game Chris makes the comment that one day he wants to sit right behind the glass at a game. he wants to sit behind the goal and just watch the game form that perspective. Tickets in this are are over $300 each. I promised Chris that when he was ready to let off the wallet and buy the tickets would not be angry. I would go to the game and enjoy it with him. Last week I made a little call to our Dallas Stars sales rep and asked for a little help. B-Rad let me know he would see what he could do and would stop by our seats in the 1st period of the game.

What do you know.... B-RAD hooked a girl UP!!!!! For free!!!!

Here is what our view looked like






We won in overtime and it was FANTASTIC.