Last night had some good and some not soooo good events.
The not so good: (because I always take the bad news first)…

The GOOD!

So, we celebrated last night because Amanda thought I wasn’t showing enough excitement and I reminded her I show my happiness on the inside… but I was very excited because she has literally lost sleep about that College Algebra class and this is her SR year and she is going to college in the afternoons and the college classes count as two HS grades and she has a 4.0 average and is up for Valedictorian and if she were to make a B she wouldn’t get to wear the cool white gown with all those cords… (how’s that for a run-on sentence?)

I let each kid (including Matt but not including Iz because she was already in bed but woke up I think because she knew she missed out so I may let her open something small today to make up for my oversight…) open a small gift selected out of the stack by me to celebrate Amandamas. Amanda opened the movie Wallee. She was happy. Bailey opened camo gloves and houseshoes from Old Navy… he was less than thrilled but sweet. Emelia opened “my first cookbook by Paula Deen.” She is ready to start cooking asap. Matt opened a t that says “ho ho ho” from ON too. It was great fun. I heart Christmas.

There was a strange additon to my nativity scene.  I went back to look at the bloggy tour of homes picture to make sure it hadn’t been there all along… It had not.  Can you find the intruder?

Here’s Princess.  She is the sweetest dog ever.  We rescued her from the doggie shelter and she is oh so happy to be out of puppy prison.  She’s full grown (maybe 3-4 years old they said).  She is a corgi mix with possibly some chihuahua.  She’s calm and sweet and loves to snuggle. 

Aw, isn’t she sweet????

Today I had lunch with my brother (Mike) and my parents. We were celebrating my dad’s birthday!

This was the view as we entered the Cowboy Hall of Fame…

This was my plate!!!

This picture was taken by my mean brother … he took my camera and snapped several bad pics of me…

Revenge is sweet

A tour guide took this for us as we were leaving.

After lunch I raced home… fed izzy… took her to school just in time to go with amanda to have her senior pictures taken… I took a few with my camera behind the photographer.  I didn’t do that while we were inside the studio… I think they are going to be great pictures! (yes. lorenzo came with her.  the studio pictures were of her alone.)

Tonight I made jambalaya for dinner.  It was so good!!!

Matt and I took a walk before and after dinner!  Two walks in one day!

After our second walk we had a family devo.

It’s been a good day!