November:
-Ran the Turkey Trot in Dallas. 8 miles in about 1 hour 21 minutes, which is about 10 minute miles.
This is where I DIDN'T line up! I think I would have died if I ran that fast!
-Celebrated Thanksgiving with our friends the Brasfields. Once again they didn't disappoint with the most delicious turkey, gravy, stuffing, and everything. I'm usually a canned pumpkin fan...I know, I know. However I'll have to get the recipe from Celia because her made from scratch pumpkin pie was delicious! And I'm a changed woman!
December:
-Got a bad case of flu and strep, all at once! YUCK! (And as I type this I'm fighting off a sinus infection. If only the weather would not jump from 19 degrees to 70 degrees it would be fine!)
-Friends took me and my friend out to Sprinkles for the most delicious Chocolate Peppermint cupcake ever to celebrate our birthdays. Thanks guys!
(Ate cupcake too fast to take picture. Sorry!)
-Celebrated Christian's birthday. It was the big 3-0 but we didn't mention it...and he only got one candle on his cake.
I made this big banner for him. It says:
Yadhtrib Yppah!!!!Christian asked if it was Hebrew....nope, you can laugh now! It's Happy Birthday except it's backwards! I set the alarm for about 3 o'clock in the morning to wake up and decorate for his Birthday to surprise him. I blew up balloons, hung up crepe paper, and made a banner. I was a little tired!
Try printing out a banner, then fighting off the cats who just wanted to walk away with the string that you're attaching the letters to. I stapled every letter to the string so the spacing would stay put....as soon as I finished I realized that I had laid it out backwards. I was too tired by this time to fix it and I figured Christian would get more of a kick out of it anyway if it was like this....so now you get a laugh too!
He had yummy banana crepes with cinnamon cream sauce for his Birthday breakfast! First time I've made crepes since French class in high school and they turned out really well!
-Went to the ICE exhibit at the Gaylord Texan. VERY cold...like 9 degrees F cold. But very fun! Here are some of our favorite ice sculptures:
This is before we went into the exhibit. Notice the penguin hat of mine Christian is wearing... His name is Mr. Tuxedo. I wear him for fun sometimes!
High five the penguin. He doesn't look too happy!
Ice ornaments. These things were huge. About twice my height!
This extremely large ice cupcake looks delicious! 
Huge "gingerbread" ice house. That's Christian in the window to the right.
Me getting stuck in the ice slide. Not enough momentum I guess.
Christian NOT getting stuck in the ice slide.
Ice covered branch walkway....This was soooo pretty!
And our favorite, a life size nativity completely out of ice!I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!
Hopefully I'll post more soon, now that I know the password....and my only other excuse was that I hated resizing all the photos to post them. But I learned all about actions in Photoshop and now all my resizing is automated, so I have no excuse now!
Erin
