Pictures from the cruise

Christmas Eve pictures

December was a good month!

December was a busy month but a lot of fun. We went on a 5 day cruise, we stopped in Cozumel and Progresso. It was our first cruise and we all had a great time. The kids came with us...Chris, Archer, Melissa and my daughter-in-law Kelly. Kelly and Melissa had a lot of fun hanging out together. They would get up at 7 am for aerobics! Crazy kids lol. There were so many things to do or you could just relax and do nothing. We're hooked now so we will probably go on another one this year. That's the game plan now anyway.

Christmas was very nice this year. Christmas Eve Chris and Kelly came and spent the evening with us. Christmas day Robby, me and the kids went to spend the day with my sister and her husband in Austin. It's always fun when we get to visit and Christmas is the only day we can count on seeing each other. We always get together for Christmas. Here's a picture of our happy family lol!

Catching Up

Yesterday I got up with the thought that I would start catching up on the things I had been putting off for so long. But first my husband came to me and said the computer was down...could I take a look at it. Windows wouldn't load and all we had was a black screen with bad news on it. After about 1 1/2 hours of poking and prodding and rebooting I finally got Windows to load. Not the way I wanted to start my day of catching up. By now I'm quite agitated and need to take a break (of course lol).

My next thing to do was pre-register our bookings for the cruise we are taking...the family Christmas present this year. The 1st booking went through fine, printed out the fun pass and on to the next. The next one was for the kids. Couldn't get the computer to accept them no matter what. So I emailed my sister and she said this was a common problem they had too. So I called the Cruise lines and they "fixed" it for me so I could finish. OK, that's done.

I was also going to call the insurance company and try and figure out the changes they are making to our policy but wasn't up to it by this time. Was going to do that this morning but was confronted with another problem. Yes, the computer again.

Last night at 10:30 the digital TV, phones and our computer all stopped working. This has happened about 6 times in the past month. Everything goes out at 10:30 and comes back on the next morning at about 10:00. Of course at 10:30 I'm starting to relax and watch TV and catch up on my you tube, my space, facebook etc. Doesn't look like that was going to happen so I went to bed and was hoping it would be working when I woke up this morning. Well, it didn't but it was only 7:30. I called Time Warner and told them the problem so they are having someone come out today and check it out. I laid down until 10:00 and got back up to check things out and sure enough everything is working again. I don't know what goes on between 10:30 pm and 10:00 am that makes everything quit working. Hopefully the technician will figure it out today.

So anyway, don't know if I'm going to fight the insurance company today or not. But besides that I have about 6 months of paperwork to catch up for my husbands business (don't tell him lol). Since it's the end of the year I need to put it in high gear and get these numbers caught up. I will continue to work on that today.

Besides all that I have a million things going through my head of what I need to do. Thinking of what we need to pack for the cruise. Wondering if I can take my pillow lol. I can only sleep on my pillow, I might have to settle on taking the pillow case and hope that will be good enough. I need to go to the grocery store but I really hate to do that. I like Melissa to go with me but she's been too busy lately so I'm on my own.

Today it looks like I'll be working on paperwork since I have to be here for the cable man. What a fun day...I'm sure I'll get sidetracked along the way somewhere!

Thanksgiving

This year we stayed home and had Thanksgiving at our house. Melissa and I cooked dinner and Chris and Kelly came in from Houston to visit. It was very nice, we hadn't seen Chris and Kelly for over a month so it was great they were here with us. Next year it's Kelly's turn to cook lol!!

They did it!!!

Brooke and Derek won the DWTS Championship this year!! Well deserved I might add! Congratulations!!

Getting ready to cruise!

Vacation planning complete! It will be me, my husband, Chris and his wife Kelly, Archer and Melissa. Melissa wanted to bring her boyfriend but I had to say no lol. I'm really looking forward to going on this cruise, I've been wanting to for a long time. I hope it's as enjoyable as I've always imagined it would be.

Vacation Planning

Okay, tomorrow I am going to quit procrastinating and start doing research for the cruise we want to take in December while the kids are on break. It's #1 on my list of things to do so I should get to it lol. Archer has said he doesn't want to go but hopefully we can talk him in to it. Melissa has asked if her boyfriend can go in Archer's place lol. We will probably see if my oldest son and his wife want to join us also. So I'm hoping to find some good deals. I'll be checking in with my sister for her opinion, she's an expert at planning cruises. Hmm, maybe I should just have her plan this one lol.

DWTS update

Dance #1 Cha Cha

Dance #2 Quickstep

Dance #3 Paso Doble

Dance #4 Viennese Waltz

Brooke and Derek have come in 1st place on the judges leader board for the 1st 4 dances.

My new cell phone

Very nice phone but the lavendar color was the selling point lol.