Merry Christmas! One down; one started!

Merry Christmas everyone! Can't believe the holidays are already upon us...where has 2009 gone?!

We had a blizzard hit Lawton yesterday...which means we're currently celebrating our first White Christmas ever! Here's a view of the snow piled at the back door after it finally stopped:

And one of the front - this was before the snow stopped, and today, I can barely see my tires:

I was kicking myself yesterday because I was totally convinced nothing would happen. We were only under a winter weather advisory on Wednesday anyway when I got home, so I thought I could go out yesterday and pick up the last few things for Christmas. Um...yeah. No. The system took a dip and dumped seven inches of snow on us. So much for that. :P

We opened our gifts at midnight for Christmas, and I got one thing knocked out and another officially started. No. 98 is done; my sister got me an emergency kit for the car! I just need to add a couple of bottles of water to put in there, and I've already got blankets in there. Suhweet! Thanks sis! Here's the kit - which has a lot of stuff in it, lemme tell ya:

And...I GOT MY CROCKPOT!

Now, I just need to get a crockpot book and start using it. This thing comes with a lock-on lid and a temperature probe. I'm already in love. :)

This Christmas wound up being an awesome one. I got a flat screen [!!] from my parents, a Flip [!! again] camcorder [which is what i used to record jj walking], a Kevin Durant jersey [that actually fits - it's not one of those big jerseys, which super excites me] and other things. We were all quite spoiled this year. Overall, it was an awesome Christmas - and it's going to get better, because we're getting ready to eat. Yum.

That's all I got for now. I know I need to post pics from JJ's birthday and try to upload the video of him attempting to eat his cake, so I'll get on that later. Merry Christmas everyone!

Eek! No. 76 started!

So, as some of you may know, I'm a big NBA fan. I know a lot of people think the NBA is full of whiny floppers who only care about money, cars and bling...but the NBA was my first love. It'll always be my first love.

Anyway. I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan - and have become a huge Thunder fan. Nothing would've pleased me more than to get tix to the Mavs-Thunder home game on Dec. 16, but I couldn't justify buying tickets for the game when I've already been to like, six Thunder game and bought a 10-game pack. Well, my justification came today - ESPN's covering the Mavs-Thunder game, and all of the Loud City tickets are half price right now. So, I jumped on that wagon, got my tix, AND got free tix to the Thunder-Knicks game in January.

Holy cow I'm so excited. Not only do I get to see my two fave teams play, but I also get to start another thing on my list! For awhile there, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it to a Mavs game this year. SUHWEET!

The rest of the list is coming along slowly. I've decided to make brag books for my parents for Christmas - I just need to pull the million photos of JJ together in one place and get them printed. I also need to find brag books or scrapbooks to put all the pictures in...I want to print off pics from JJ's first year, and I think there's too many for a brag book I could pick up anywhere. I'll go do some digging around on eBay and see if I can find anything. I think I'm getting a crockpot for Christmas from J...I'm SO excited about that, too! I also asked for cookbooks for Christmas, so I should be able to start on that one after the New Year. I can't believe 2010 is just around the corner...there are only 23 days left in the year! Eek!

That's all I've got for now. I'll blog about JJ's first birthday later on today or tonight - I was just too excited about the Mavs thing to not blog about it. :)