A Christmas Blog-2 months late :)

Hey Guys! There are a few things to update you on in our lives, but I have been promising a Christmas post for some time now. So I am going to lead with that and hopefully get to some updates a lil later on this week or next...

So, we had a HECK of a time actually getting to Houston because when I went to check in online 24 hours before our flight was set to leave Christmas morning, it couldn't find my flight. When I searched by my credit card, it had a flight that was going to Aspen several hours later than our flight, and when I searched by flight number, it showed a flight going to Ontario Canada. I logged onto Expedia which is where we booked our flights NINE months earlier and had gotten them for killer prices! And in my Expedia account, it showed all the same info that I'd been looking at and checking on for the previous 9 months. Still, I was quite worried, and I wanted to get checked in, so I called Expedia. After a 2 hour phone call, it was determined that my flight had been cancelled back in AUGUST and 1) somehow the United or Expedia notification email didn't get sent to me (odd, huh?) and 2) when things like that happen, Expedia doesn't find it necessary to update your online flight information!!!!! So, after the 2 hours with the 1st Expedia we were supposed to have gotten everything worked out and gotten us on another flight, though it was much later in the day. And in the next 15 mins, I was supposed to receive an email conf of this new flight info. Well, it was Christmas Eve, and Chris and I had a ton of things to do, including pack but also errands to run outside the house, so we went to run them and came back to NO EMAILS several hours later. SIGH! So Chris called and had a 1.5 hour convo with another girl. VERY LONG STORY, short....we got to Houston finally, but boy did I let Expedia know in a customer service survey later that I would not only tell everyone I knew about this but I would most certainly NEVER EVER use them again!
Anyways, we got to Houston and had a great time! My boys are SO BIG and grown up and precious now, and it was a BLAST just chatting with them, playing games and watching movies with them, playing b-ball, etc! It was so nice to catchup with mom and my sis and bro-in-law, and overall it was just a WONDERFUL time! But I'd say it just made me miss my boys that much more! :(
So, anyways, like I said, I have no pictures except for the day that us girls went to the pottery place and picked out and panted our own pottery....SO FUN! So here are those pics....

Hard at work


My final product


Crystal's S&P Shakers


Crystal's Final Product


Mom's Final Product
*Note: any pictures of her working were lost on Crystal's cam)


Me & My Big Sis :)

ps....

Chris and I have had a 30 day trial to Netflix and have been watching ALOT of movies lately, since that is all I have had energy for most evenings. We've watched alot of good ones, but by far, so far, my absolutely fave has been The Other Guys.

Now this is PG-13 and does have some questionable scenes, and I would DEF not recommend you watch it with any kids, BUT I have not laughed this hard or this often through a movie in a long time!
Thanks for "listening!"
Holly the Movie Critic :)

Things...FINALLY!

Hey Y'all! So, I again apologize for being a horrible blogger in 2011 so far. So here are my excuses that are mostly repeats from my previous blog:

*I am STILL SICK! When I wrote you before and said I was starting to feel better...well at the end of that week, I got sick again! I called a nurse who asked me lotsa questions, and she said it was just a cold and that I prolly caught another virus while I was getting over the 1st one. So, FOUR AND A HALF WEEKS later, I'm still nursing this stupid thing! This 2nd virus has definitely been worse than the 1st BUT i THINK that just maybe I am on the mend, though I am still trying to take it easy, get lotsa rest, drink lotsa fluids, etc. My 1st triumph, tho, came in the last 2 days. I have now gone over 48 hours with ANY kind of medicine (except one cough drop today)! Praise God for that! So, hopefully I am getting better and will be 100% SOON!

*My sis lost all the pics from Christmas so the only ones I have are of the pottery that we made, which I will post soon (I do plan on trying to blog more regularly, and when that happens, I'll go back to Christmas stuff since I have never written about it).

*Work is CRAZY, and I am busy ALL THE TIME! And once I get home, I have no desire to return emails, check facebook or any of that, because I am just exhausted. I do love my job still and am not complaining about being busy, but it is a huge adjustment from the past 2.5 years AND our 2nd support center is in Mass, so it's been crazier than usual as those hundreds of other reps that are normally on the phones helping us with calls have been very sporadically able to work with the gazillion inches of snow everyday they've been getting.

So, those are my excuses! :) Lord-willing, work will slow down a touch, I'll be back to "normal" sometime soon, and I'll start to better balance a busy work schedule with life and blogging!

Love you all! Talk to you again soon (hopefully)!