I can't believe another year has passed by again. It just seems the older I get the faster time flies by. It would be nice if it would fly by while at work and slow down when with family and friends! Denise, Brianna and I have been in San Antonio for the last four days just having a jolly good time. We give our kids all the best comforts of home but they just love being away from home in a hotel. We have been staying at an Embassy Suites and the kids love the indoor pool, the happy hours and the breakfast in the morning, not to mention the suite it self, it is like a mini apartment. They have voted this the best hotel in San Antonio to stay at. We brought along a few of their Xmas gifts to pass the time, Uncle O and Aunt Libby gave them each a kid's art studio set with an easel, acrylic paints and canvas pictures to paint. They have loved painting those canvases and the mess was made in the hotel not my house! They also brought along their Crayola crayon maker and glow dome that Santa gave them. We went shopping one day when the weather was bad and bought Cupid the hamster a new ride. Of course Cupid is with us and we would have brought Maxie too, but she wanted to stay with Dennis. She thinks we travel too much! While in SA we were able to visit my Uncle Junior and Tia Julia along with my cousins and their families. Oh my, a house full of Lacayos can be very entertaining! It was great to see everyone again especially Belinda, Darin, Emily and Matthew who I haven't seen in a very long time.

We hope to see all of you again next year sometime. Who knows, we may just have another crawfish boil just to get you guys to come to Houston! Yesterday, we went to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. Not all the rides were open, but we had a great time because it was not hot and not crowded. The only long waiting time was for the Road Runner roller coaster.
Six Flags does a good job of decorating the whole park for Christmas and they added a small hill of snow for sledding and a place to make smores while drinking hot cocoa. The kids wanted to see snow this year so I told them this was going to be the best I could do. Our stay in San Antonio has been fun and a good way to end the year. I wish everyone a very prosperous and healthy new year.

Merry Christmas One and All!

We wish all a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Our Christmas was great, with lots of gifts and good eating. In fact, too much eating!

Winter Wonderland In H-Town!

We woke up to some cold weather and what started as a drizzle turned into snowflakes. This is the most I have ever seen it snow here in Texas. I dropped off the kids at school and headed for work. It was hard to work with all the snow falling outside. Everyone kept walking over to the windows to watch the snow and no one was actually working. Once the temperature dropped to 35 degrees it started to stick and Halliburton decided to let us go home. I left work early and went to get the kids out of school to play with the snow.
The kids had a blast and made a foot tall snowman with the snow they collected on the patio furniture. They stored their snowman in the freezer next to the snowball from the snow we had last year! If we keep getting snow each year I won't have any space in the freezer for food.