WOAH!!! It's been a while!

I still have a bit of writers block. Not much going on. I will leave you with this!

Saturday at Walmart.

Some people hate it.

Some people hate it but I love it.

Walmart on a Saturday afternoon. Not just any Walmart. Walmart in a small town such as Nacogdoches which has even smaller towns nearby with no Walmart for miles. This is the day that all the small town folks from cities such as Chireno and Alazan come to spend the DAY at Walmart. This Saturday was no different.

I went to Walmart because I was in search of a filing cabinet along with a small list of groceries. I walked in and headed to the material and craft department (a weakness of mine no doubt brought on by the genes i recieved from my mother) I was looking for the perfect material to cover the filing cabinet so that we can use it for a bedside table for our guest room. (I didn't find it) While I was in the department I heard over the intercom that there was a "Code Adam". A "Code Adam" I soon found out was Walmart lingo for a lost child. I listened over the intercome in humor as the story unfolded over the intercome. It was funny because once they found the kid they couldn't find the kid's parents. That went back and forth for a while. I giggled.

As I went through the store I watched the many different people roaming the store. There was the young high school couple having a date at the McDonalds (real classy). There was the family with a million kids and a million shopping carts full of a million gallons of milk and they were all dressed in denim. There were the husband and wife team in leather and tattoos in sleeveless shirts very bikeresk minus the fact that they also had matching complementary riding shopping carts. I even saw a lady talking to the candles like they were her best friends!!!

You get the point but the mother of all things happened! I saw him. He was standing in the frozen food section by the ice cream. I didn't know who to call. I tried my dad. No answer. I called Ryan and Kelly. No answer. I called Carl. No signal. (He was in the middle of nowhere for Council Retreat) I stared in disbelief and then I gawked in utter shock that no one else noticed! Elvis was in the frozen food section at the Walmart in Nacogdoches Texas!!!

Elvis is alive.

I saw him.

Uno Attack anyone?

This past weekend Carl and I went back to Dallas to spend time with my mom's side of the family. It was as usual a great time. We arrived on Friday night and were greeted not only by my parents and brother but also by my Uncle Randy, Aunt Kathy, Uncle Mark, Aunt Lisa and cousins Tyler and Rachel. Not nessicarrilly in that order.

This is where it starts to get funny....

Tyler was playing his Nintendo DS. Mark and Randy were intensley working on a puzzle. (see pictures) The rest of us decided to play a mean game of UNO Attack! It was fun! The best part had really nothing to do with the game.

Tilly has certian rights as the Grand-dog-der that no one else has with my father. She is able to sit in my dad's lap at the kitchen table! Now you know why my dog is spoiled! Well Dad was enjoying his nightly dessert (he says he never has dessert) but anyway he was enjoying his chocolate pie while Tilly was trying her hardest to enjoy it too!

Check out the pictures!

I Celebrate the Day....

The Christmas spirit is full swing in me! I love decorating the house and attending the numorus holiday parties. This month I have attended 9 Christmas parties and 2 graduation parties. I love it. I think I get my party nature from my mother. Just tell me what to bring and I will be there attitude certiantly comes from her. Now sharing new and daring recipes at the party came from my dad! Tonight's party I will be breaking out a new and old recipie. I have a standard bean dip that I take with me EVERYWHERE! People love it. I love it. It has cream cheese in it. That's why it's so popular. I still say there isn't anything you CAN'T put cream cheese with. I challange anyone to change my mind!



I have been able to dodge the negitive attitudes of the Scrooges that come into our office. I have not let the unaturally hot for this time of year weather get me down. I have been keeping a cough just a cough so that I won't be totally sick for the holidays. I have found an awesome new Christmas song that helps me to ward off the negitive energy so many people have around this holiday. The song is called " I Celebrate the Day" by Relient K. I really like it because it reminds me why I celebrate Christmas day. I celebrate the day so I could one day pray for You to save my life

RELIENT K LYRICS

"I Celebrate The Day"

And with this Christmas wish is missed

The point I could convey

If only I could find the words to say

to let You know how much You've touched my life

Because here is where You're finding me, in the exact same place as New Year's eve

And from a lack of my persistency

We're less than half as close as I want to be

And the first time

That You opened Your eyes

Did You realize that You would be my Savior

And the first breath that left Your lips

Did You know that it would change this world forever

And so this Christmas I'll compare the things I felt in prior years

To what this midnight made so clear

That You have come to meet me hereTo look back and think that

This baby would one day save me

In the hope that what You did

That you were born so I might live

To look back and think that

This baby would one day save me

And I, I celebrate the day

That You were born to die

So I could one day pray for You to save my life

I pray that the Christmas season will touch you the same way!

Check out our Christmas House...

Yea for Christmas! I decorated the house yesterday. Our tree is a little Charlie Brown esk. Carl INSISTED that "Dewight" the Christmas gnome greet everyone at the door! I am the one that gave Dewight the accent of a drunk Englishman.

While I was decorating Tilly was quietly watching warmly in her blanket.

I love my husband

I don't say it enough! I love Carl Jonathon Hanke. He really is something. Here is just a little run down of Carl....my perception of him!

Name: Carl Jonathon Hanke

My Nicknames for Carl: Babe, Baby, lover, babycakes...oops...only Steven can call you that!

Hair color: dirty blonde

Eye color: Blue

I like when Carl wears: Jeans and a t-shirt with his white Pumas...so cute!

I hate when Carl wears: His Boy Scout uniform shorts on normal days

Carl goes to bed at: around 11:30 to midnight

Carl starts his day at: around 8 to 9:30 AM

Carl has too much: facial hair

And not enough: actual hair on his head....he is sporting a mohawk

Carl likes when I cook: hamburgers, baked ziti, casseroles

Carl's favorite dish that his mom makes: beef strognoff

Carl doesn't like to eat: lamb or sushi (my favorites!!!)

Some of Carl's favorite pasttimes are: frisbee golf, boy scouts, Wesley , making music.

Carl's least favorite things to do: dishes, shopping, going to class.

Carl is best at: playing instruments; mostly drums and guitar

Now you know.

Take This Job and Shove It!!

I am having a REALLY hard time working today.

It's not that it's a BAD day or anything. I just want to be doing something else other than sitting at a computer pushing paper in an avacado green room. It's a gorgous day outside, all of my friends are on thier way in town for Homecoming and I am stuck in the office while they call to say they are minutes away and ready to play. This sucks. Being an adult sucks sometimes.

I want to take back all the moments in my childhood that I whined about wishing to being older! Why didn't my parents tell me that THIS is what I had to look forward to!?!?! I should of never complained about being bored. Now I sit in my office and WISH I could go outside and play. I am talking about playing on the playground kind of play. You know that stuff that you aren't "allowed" to do anymore once you hit a certian age because it's not appropriate. I am realizing more and more that I think most people have kids so that they can have an excuse to go to the park and swing or play in the sandbox again. Can I do those things without having a kid and not risk looking creepy?

I will just have to keep my innerchild inside a little longer until Carl and I decide to have kids.