Photo Fun

The other night one of my good friends here in Texas and I went to have some pictures taken... we thought of having GlamourShots taken, but then decided to go with a different studio. Our requirements for the pictures were to be fun, flirty, and cute. My first set of pictures were the cowboy hat pictures. I figured that Trevor would love these pictures, only to find out that he (like myself) didn't like the fact that I had a black backdrop with a black shirt. But the pictures look good! We had a lot of fun that night, and hopefully the girls at the studio had fun as well!!!
This is one of my favorite pictures. Kinda reminds me of senior pictures! :)
This is me and Jen. We had pictures taken individually as well as together. We both liked this picture... this is how we usually are when we are together, heads together with smiles that make the guys wonder what we are planning next!!!!

ICE world

Well the meteorologists were right when they said we were going to get ice... and lots of it... ANY OTHER TIME when they predict a "wintery mix" nothing happens... I was banking on that when I drove to Tulsa Thursday night to spend a long weekend with family and friends. A long weekend it turned out to be... I didn't leave Broken Arrow...
Here Brian is posing by my car... showing how excited he is about the ice... that means I get to stay a little longer!!!
This is the ice on my back window after we chipped some off... it was at least an inch thick on the back window!!
The front of my car... the ice was at least 4 inches thick! In order to get through it all Brian used the back side of a hammer to chisel his way to the bottom of the ice, then I was able to use my ice scraper in conjunction with the defroster to find my window! You are probably asking yourself why we didn't put my car in the garage on Friday when it started to sleet and drizzle... answer to your question... we dunno... we didn't think about it! Now my baby is warming up in the garage... there is still ice on the top of the car, but it is much better than it was!!!!

Starting 2007 like I ended 2006...

Everyone sends out holiday cards that somewhere in them say, "May your New Year be filled with love and happiness..." or something to that line... well my 2007 is starting out to be a repeat of the end of 2006. My mom called me tonight to tell me that her dad had passed away. I had already been prepped for this earlier in the week when he went into the hospital for severe abdominal pains... and when he left the hospital they gave him 3 months to live... that was on Friday afternoon... I don't think that we ever got the official results of the biopsy that they did on him.

Right now I am feeling very numb. I am still reeling from the loss of my grandma in October and sorting through those feelings, now I have lost yet another grandparent. For those of you that know me really well know how I have felt toward my paternal grandfather... you know that it is because of his alcoholism that I wasn't allowed to have much of a relationship with him or my grandmother... it is because of his abusive behavior that my mom did not have a relationship with him... I grew up hating this man for what he did to my family... yet I still loved him so innocently. Why you may ask? Because he was my grandpa. In my eyes, even though I knew the things that he did and had done, he was still my grandpa and I still loved him.

I am very glad that I was able to go to dinner with him and my grandma Christmas Eve. He was relatively happy that day. I will always have that memory with me.

Please pray for my mom, her sister, and my grandma during this time. My mom is doing alright, as is my grandma... my aunt on the other hand has a lot of things to deal with as she didn't know her father very well and once she had the chance to get to know him, she didn't really take the opportunity to do so. She was just in Tulsa a few weeks ago and she didn't even call him...

Thank you for your prayers. I will hopefully be back in Tulsa this weekend to be with my parents. I am hopeful that my grandma will move in with my parents so that we don't have to worry about her living by herself in that neighborhood.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hello family and friends! I was attempting to do a "year in review" blog but had too many pictures and got too fed up with the upload process... I have yet to upgrade to the new and improved blogger... maybe I will do that soon!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year holiday season. I had a great time with my family- good thing too since I probably won't be back in Tulsa for a while...

Here is a picture from my stay in Tulsa, this is my good friend Brian... :)

We had a good time at Rhema... it was a little chilly... but we survived!

For those of you that had read the previous posting and were actually concerned about my "missing friend" - fear no more... he wasn't really missing, just working way too hard... We saw him on Kenzie's 6th birthday!