Remember me?

Hi everyone! It's been a while. Remember me? I'm that weird girl who snorts when she laughs...ring a bell? I can also pop my shoulders out of socket. Anything?

*crickets chirping*

Hmm...

Well, you know you haven't blogged in a while when you have 107 pictures to upload from your camera!

Things around here have been pretty crazy. Not bad crazy, just busy crazy what with the holidays and all. We had a fantastic Christmas! And let's hear it for the snow on Christmas Eve! What a shocker! Too bad I'm too much of a wimp to take Jonathan out to play in it. What can I say? My feet get cold.

Ok. First things first. My mom and I met The Pioneer Woman, also known as Ree Drummond, on December 1st at the Borders in Dallas off Preston. Her book signing started at 7:00 so we got there around 5:15 thinking we would be out of there in time to go to dinner. Boy were we wrong! I had no idea that Borders was handing out colored wristbands to determine what group you would be put in to meet Ree. When we got there, our wristband was yellow. I soon found out that we were the 5th group to meet Ree.

That doesn't sound too bad. How many people are in a group?

Oh...100 per group?!

CRAP!

Needless to say, we were there until 11:15 and we had Jonathan with us. He was such a trooper! Thank goodness Borders had an incredible kids section with books and toys otherwise I probably would have pulled my hair out. Instead of a nice meal at a sit down restaurant, we had McDonalds. Disgusting!

Also, my camera died (or so I thought) right when we got to the front of the line. Little did I know that it was on the video setting, so both of the pictures I attempted to get are videos. My brain farted big time!

Ree was super nice to take a picture with her camera and she even took a close up of Jonathan, saying he had the greatest hair. The next day, I was looking at her blog and there was a picture of me and my cute little kiddo! We're famous! Woo! Check it out here. Too bad I hate the picture of me, but Jonathan was super snuggly, it being 11:00 at night and all.

We had our Annual High School Girls Night Lingerie Party on December 19th. For those of you who aren't familiar, no we do not get together and wear our lingerie. It's a Chinese gift exchange and the present has to be lingerie. We've been doing this since our sophomore year of high school. The most common present back then was just panties, but now most of us are married so there's more of a demand of "outfits". It's crazy fun and I always like to bring the skankiest and classiest outfit I can find. I say, if you're gonna dress up, why not go all out? This year, I brought a bustier and panty set that was "classy" and a fishnet crotchless body stocking that was oh so "skanky". Needless to say, I took home my own gift and was PUMPED! I had to steal it to get it but the bloodshed was well worth it! :) Here's a picture of me in it...

Haha! Just kidding! That's a whole 'nother blog. One I don't own.

All the girls had a blast. We were missing Chaney and Lauren but everyone else was able to make it.

All the ladies

Me & Whit - she has the most ADORABLE twin boy & girl!

Love this picture!

Jenifer & Krisi

Me & Staci - in all the years I've know this one, I've never seen her hair as straight as it is in this picture. We were all mesmerized!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

From the Martinos!

Christmas Eve

What a crazy white Christmas Eve! My parents and brother were planning on coming up to Denton to spend Christmas Eve with us and Joseph's extended family. I was so excited for them to see the Nativity Play the kids put on each year since this would have been the first year for Jonathan to participate in it. Unfortunately due to the weather, they weren't able to make it. They loaded up the car and drove for an hour (which would have put them at our doorstep) and only made it 18 miles from their house! The highways were like a parking lot so we told them to go back home. It took them another hour to drive back! Bummer. But at least we took pictures.

This year, the Martino Christmas Eve was quite small as compared to other years. Normally there is between 70 - 90 family members there (Martinos are baby making machines. We're Mormon, what can I say?) but this year we only had around 50 due to people going out of town. Still, it was fun. We had a wonderful dinner, lots of great conversation, the Nativity Play and then Santa came! Jonathan was so pumped. He loves Santa - as in, sees him and lights up. No tears, no fear. He goes straight up to him and sits on his lap. It's super cute and tonight was no exception.

After everyone left, Joseph's family stayed around and we all opened presents from Nona and Papi. Joseph got his shotgun he's been begging me for and I got an incredible leather jacket and some great books - The Giving Tree, Putting on the Armor of God and The Peacegiver. I can't wait to read them! Jonathan got a slide from Nona and Papi and he loves it. It's in our living room right now since it's been so cold and snowy, and he climbs it and slides down all day long.

Here's the Nativity Play:

Jonathan was a shepherd

Happy shepherd!

The angel telling Mary not to be afraid and Joseph that she's cool to marry even though she's preggo.

Mary riding a donkey around Bethlehem

The donkey fell asleep.

Presley, Carter & Landon

Cute baby angel Katie

CJ being a shepherd wrangler

CJ & Baby J after the play. Best buds

SANTA CAME!: Look at that face!

Grabbin' from the goody bag

Hey Santa! I'd like an Elmo doll and a tricycle. Make it happen old man!

And I'd like a baby...You don't have to make that happen. I'll do it myself.

Yay! A good one of me and the hubs! A rare find.

Say cheese!

Little boys in Christmas jambos...

...You can't go wrong.