Christmas

So here are some of the pictures from Christmas. Jamo and I started out at our house having a little Christmas all by ourselves. Then we went over to Dad's for Christmas brunch and present opening with Holly's family. It was delicious, lots of waffles and other things... so full. Then we just hung out with the fam most of the day. We spent Christmas Eve with Jamo's family and had our Christmas with them then. We got spoiled rotten this year. Maybe we should have watched our spending a little more closely. But we got some stuff we've been wanting for a long time. We got a gps system and a point and shoot digital camera (all pictures shown are taken with new camera). Jamo got games upon games and a couple movies. Dad bought me a netbook. My laptop died a week or two before Christmas conveniently for me (this is all being done on my new netbook, woot!). Then we got lots of smaller things, jewelry, movies, shoes, ties, candy. We rock at finding sales, that's how we role. So we pretty much had an awesome Christmas this year. It was lots of good time fun. So finally, here are some pictures...

Jamo and his spoils. He got all the Settlers of Catan + expansion packs, it was his big present.

Me and my spoils. Not a very good pic of me. This is why I am on a diet. This is also why I shouldn't get my picture taken first thing in the morning, oy!

Holly and her kids. Everyone here got snuggies for Christmas, made by Sandy. Jamo and I were jealous and got our about a week later. Mine is by far the coolest of them all, hehe.

Michael and Brad chilling in the snuggies and opening Christmas presents.

This is me and my fake Britney perfume from Holly (it's from the dollar store). It's one of those you had to be there moments.

Diana and I got each other socks. Mine were soft and fluffy and blue. Her's were striped and the other had candy, they were knee socks (I almost kept them for myself).

Emily opening Skip Bo, the game I got the kids for Christmas. Another had to be there moments, Emily is silly.

Michael with the game I bought him. He wanted Twister and I found a sweet deal at Target one week. I was pleased with my fine and he seemed to enjoy it.

Dad opening a present. I'm not sure what it is, might of been our itunes giftcard.

This is what Frank gets from me every year, Krabby Patties. I'm sure he loves it a lot. Almost as good as the year I got him a pill organizer, haha.

Jamo and the boys playing Settlers of Catan. This went on for hours. Jamo is always looking for someone to play with him. I can only play it so many times before I get bored.

Kansas City

The entrance to the Kansas city zoo. It was really big, like land wise. There was animals and stuff and lots and lots of walking. We'll have to go again when more animals are out.

Me in something, a rock of sorts, right outside of the zoo. It was fun and rainy. I would have sit also but my butt would have gotten way wet. I think I've finally dried out.

Jameson on some sort of sculpture. It looked to me like a cross between and eagle and ram head. Anyone else have thoughts on what it might be? Some sort of mythical creature.

The Jaguar was sitting up on top of this cage that went right over the walkway, it was pretty cool. He was grooming himself. He was also scared/interested of the sound of tic tacs.

The lion. It was sitting like that the entire time. I have no idea why though, silly Lions.

Elephants, there were lots of them. They also all pooped at the same time. It smelled.

This is the baby monkey. It was adorable and I could watch it all day. I love baby anything, so cute!

These were some type of otters, I don't remember what kind. But they were all cute and cuddly.

Sea Lions swimming. There was supposed to be a show, but there weren't enough trainers or something. There was also no one at the zoo. We were one of three groups that we saw there.

One of Julie's dog. It was silly and had a fetish with licking its nose.

So many video games were played. I was usually bored after the first two minutes, but they continued to play for the next two hours. I mostly only like the Pokemon Stadium mini games.

Julie and I eating out at Chili's. I had a delicious salad, boneless buffalo chicken something or other. Mmmm, delicious food.

Jamo and I at our house right after I got a the new camera, woot!

Jamo had a couple of days off from work and school for the holidays so we went and saw my friend Julie who moved to KC end of October. So we hung out with her. She had tickets for us to get into the zoo for free (it's 10.50 a person, crazy!). I also opened up a couple of my Christmas presents early (because they were awesome for our trip), I got a new little point and shoot camera and a GPS system. So here are some pictures from our trip taken with our new camera.

Baking with Jen

One of my yw came and baked stuff with me. Yeah, she was really messy. This is when she got powdered sugar All over.

Her pretending to eat my creation... I am one amazing baketress.

This is my creation, it is awesome. I don't know how it tasted on account of I didn't eat it.

Jamo doing what he does best... making cookies. This is why I got so fat. Mmmmm, cookies.

Jen eating the brownies. It was a night of desert mayhem... Oy.

October

Sometimes when the weather gets bad (which happened a lot in october) I would come home from work and make me some of this and read me some harry potter. Good times and good hot chocolate.

This is me at work, being ever so bored. Somedays are really slow and I just sit there waiting for people to come and get there pictures taken. So sometimes I get bored and take me own pictures.


So every once in a while this fall we had a nice day. About one every two weeks. It was the wettest October on record. I hope to never see rain again. Here are a few pictures of when we actually got to go outside.

This is a tree in Holly's front yard.

This is emily on someone's bike. Yay for being outside!

Aiden was making a face on the tree out of different things like acorns and umm tape? I think I used to be creative and have an imagination too.

Me and holly's boys went to the park one day. We took a walk by a lake and saw some ducks. I need zoom on my camera on my phone.

My Birthday

I know I'm a couple of months late on posting these pictures, but yeah, that's how I roll. This is me at El Magueys. On your birthday they give you free fried ice cream, but first they insist on putting it all over your face. It's fun. And I love me some mexican food.

Jamo and I eating at "gooeys". Oh, they also make you were a silly hat. Silly picture. Man we got fat...

Dad gave us the old raft. It has a small leak which I plan to find and fix (it's a slow leak though!) So we took it out on the lake when we went camping at cuivre river. Next time we will remember to bring ores... paddling with your hands is awesome.

This is my birthday morning. Yup, that's a birthday doughnut and yup, those are matches on top. We lacked candles on our camping trip.

The problem with lighting matches is, it doesn't work very well, especially when it's windy outside. So mostly I just ate the doughnut.

This is our morning fire to eat some breakfast s'mores on. Mmmmm, s'mores. I could really go for some of those right now.

This is what happens when you forget your camping can opener at home. But with the help of a key and an ax, you can totally get into the can. We did this with both the cherry pie filling (for pie irons, yum) and the pineapple to put in the pie iron pizzas.
The night before (my pictures are backwards, silly). We took a hike up Frenchman's Bluff. This is the view from the top and me uh, doing stuff.
Jamo at the top of Frenchman's Bluff. The way back down got pretty dark. It's a nice thought to go and watch the sunset there (it was pretty), but then you have to think about the way down. We should have thought more and brought flashlights. Lots of adventures.

Jamo half way up to the top. It was a pretty hike full of nature and trees and stuff. I think that's Cuivre River behind him.

This is the stick bug that I picked up when gathering kindling. Yeah, I thought it was a real stick and it wasn't, it was squishy. I was grossed out. It is by far the biggest slash fattest stick bug I've ever encounted in my life. Cool, but eww.

This is Jamo trying to put together the tent. He's getting better at it. He never really went camping as a kid (only with the boyscouts, which is completely different and doesn't count). So now I get to make him do all sorts of silly fun camping stuff with me, yay!

This is our tent, it's awesome. It was a beautiful day when we went (which just doesn't seem to happen a lot this year) and so everyone was there. When we got there, there was only like 3 spots left. This site was decieving. It looked really small, but when you got in, you realized that you got to bring your tent down the trail far away from other campers, it was awesome!

Jamo blowing up the raft to see if it even worked. I think we need a new pump, or a lot of duct tape. It took a while, but we figured it out...

This is the forrest from the car. Kind of a fun picutre, it's like you're driving there. Woooooooooooo!