Christmas 2009

We spent Christmas Eve at Chris' parents' house with them, Chris' sister and her family, and her in-laws. We met up with them after our church's Christmas Eve service. We had a GREAT meal of homemade enchiladas and then went home to get some sleep before Christmas morning's festivities. As I said on my facebook where I already posted the following pictures, Chris and his family are rubbing off on me, and though it was CHRISTMAS DAY, I didn't manage to take very many pictures at all. Hope you enjoy them, and hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your families! Happy New Year!!!

Texas Trip, The Finale (heehee)

At the basketball game...KK got to sit "on" the bench, can you see him behind dad???? :) so cute!

He also got to be the ball boy...

Lunch pics...me & autumn

Autumn and the boys

Me & KK

Visit with Kel, college roommie

Fam pics before church....

Coffee with Melissa (who is newly married) :)

So we stayed with my dad the rest of our time in TX and on Sat, we went to one of his High School b-ball games with the Bolding clan, then to lunch and then we went and met one of my old college roommates for some coffee and a quick catch up. Sunday we went to church with dad and co at the Burleson Church of Christ, had lunch and then headed to have coffee with another one of my old college buddies. And THEN, seeing as we were SOOOO tired from being up late and "fitting everyone in," we went back to dad's and just relaxed. And we "got" to get up at 4 in the morning on Monday to leave for the airport to return home. We had a wonderful trip, but we were excited also to get back home and back into our daily routines. Following are the rest of the pics from our trip. I hope you enjoyed the posts (all 50 of them-haha), and I also wish everyone of you a Very Merry Christmas! MAYBE I will "be back on" and post some things on Monday! xoxo

....ps.....if you didnt see it, there is another post below this one from today as well, so scroll on down

Friday, cont'd

After we spent what ended up being the whole day in Arlington for the tour, we finally headed down to Weatherford (where I grew up and where my paternal grandparents still live) to meet up with my dad's side of the fam. We ate at Chili's and then hung out at Grandmother & Granddaddy's for a bit afterwards.

Me and my dad's parents...they're SOOOO cute!!!

My two aunts and uncles and my cousin, Jill (who you can't see) along with Crystal and her fam and my grandparents at their house...

Granddaddy and their spoiled, rotten dog! :)


***So since I'm about to be off for 4 full days, and since I should have some fun Christmas pics when I do get back in the office on Monday, I'm going to just be posted all the rest of the posts from our TX trip today. So stay tuned....... :)

More Pics from Cowboys Stadium Tour

One of the club levels, how cool are these lights...

One of the suites

Cotton Bowl offices

View from end zone, look hard and between the roller coaster and the Ballpark, you can see Texas Stadium-wow!

Putting down turf for Baylor/TX Tech game...

The Locker Room

Where the Cowboys walk into the stadium (and ppl with LOTS of money to have these field-level suites get to watch them!!!!

That's it! I decided not to put ALL my pics on here so as to bore my friends that aren't Cowboys fans! :) If you're reading this post first, be sure to scroll down to the next post, which I posted earlier this morning and is the prequel to this one! :) I will post some fam pics from Friday night's eve with my dad's side of the fam tomorrow!

xo

Friday, November 27th...TOUR DAY

So we said goodbye to Chris' parents, and they headed back towards CO. And we geared up for the big Cowboys Stadium tour. When we pulled up, however, there was a MONSTROUS line, and everyone in line was saying that it'll take about 3 hours IN LINE before we could take the tour. Luckily we didn't have much else set in stone for that day, so we settled in, my sis and her fam joined us, and we waited, and waited, and waited, and you get the drift.
At first it seemed there was no way it was gonna take 3 hours because you get inside really quickly, but the long part of the line is inside and goes very slowly through the Pro Shop (my goodness, Jerry Jones truly is a genius, huh?)! It didn't SEEM like 3 hours, but we timed it, and sure enough it was just under 3 hours when we FINALLY got to begin the tour. We did have a few things that took up some time while waiting, like our tattoos...

and browsing through all the great things in the Pro Shop...

It's funny cuz once we got to the tour, we still had to wait for other tours to get far enough ahead of us, so in another stroke of money-making genius, Jerry Jones has the concession stands open while we wait...

And FINALLY, the tour began...

The post-game conference room

Storage for the many different turf looks

Coby trying to drive away on an official golf cart :)

Ok, I am having difficulties with blogspot today, so I will come back on a lil later and post more pics of the tour...I have ALOT of them, so stay tuned!!! :)

Dunno what to title this

Was just going to let you know that those of you that are on the edge of your seat waiting to see pics of and hear stories about our tour of Cowboys Stadium will just have to wait until next week. SORRY!!! But I love you all, hope you have a wonderful weekend, and I'll be back here on Monday!
xoxo

Game Day

Sorry everyone. Somehow I completely forgot to post yesterday! So, on with the story... :)

Thursday morning we got up, got dressed and headed over to the stadium. A side note that funny enough, the motel we stayed at was older, and in the mornings wasn't quite equipped for warm water for all of its guests. We stayed here Wed and Thurs nights, so for those 2 days, Chris took no shower (yuck, i know), and I took COLD, but very quick ones! haha Anyways...the stadium is too awesome and enormous for words, so I am going to let pics do the talking to cap this post off. I will say that it was a great day, a dream come true to get to go to a Thanksgiving Day game FINALLY, and thank goodness my Boys won! woohoo Also, you'll see pics of some players getting out of their cars in the mix....the stadium has it where all of the Cowboys drive their cars to this blocked off area before the games and get out, valet-style, and then have this grand walk into the stadium amongst lotsa blcoked off fans. We didnt see any of the big wogs, but saw the tail end of Crayton and Choice AND Chris totally shook hands with Jason Garrett! :) Enjoy, and tomorrow you'll see even more pics of the stadium cuz that's the day we toured it with my sis, bro-in-law and 2 nephews!