Catchy title to come soon....maybe: Holiday Re-Cap

Hard to believe that the New Year is already here...well not that hard since yesterday was my first day back to work since Dec. 22! I love all the time off at Christmas that the University allows, but it went by WAY too fast and it makes it so hard to get back into the swing of things!

On my last day of work for the year, the forecast called for snow. Now Lubbock sometimes gets snow flurries and what not, but nothing too terribly bad. We figured it would all melt and that we'd be able to get to Lamesa by mid day Christmas Eve, no problem. Haha yeah right! Lubbock and the surrounding areas were COVERED in ice. We decided to hold off for awhile to see if the roads would improve after being traveled on all day. The drive normally takes about 50 minutes tops, but it ended up taking us almost 2 hours to get home. Cars were in ditches and some were even out in the neighboring fields. Crazy I tell ya! Here are a few pictures of the animals out in the snow. This was Sadie and Tupac's first snow experience!

Not Coco though, she's an old pro!

Once we were all safely in Lamesa, we all opened presents. Taylor bought me some gorgeous antique jewelry I'd had my eye on and I'm excited to incorporate it into my wedding attire!

On Christmas night my family gathered around our kitchen table and played games. Among them Loteria (Mexican Bingo) and Toma Todo. Toma Todo is a game played with a toy top. Each side of the top reads in Spanish, put one, take one, take two etc. etc. We played the game with nickels and the goal is to spin the top until it reads Toma Todo (take all) and you win what's in the pot!

That night we also had a lot of fun going through some of my sister's old toys. She was a huge barbie fan so she brought out all her old barbies. She pulled out a couple of them and I dubbed them the Ghosts of Christmas Toys past. When I was in 10 and she was 5 we were IN LOVE with New Kids. I got Jordan for Christmas that year and she got Jonathan. To this day she remains a wee bit jealous that I got the Jordan doll and she got stuck with his brother Jonathan!By the end of the night, Ms. Coco was beat. This was when she jumped on me like a lap dog and proceeded to sleep on me for about 2 hours!

Next came New Year's Eve. A lot of our friends were in San Antonio for the Bowl Game so Taylor and I decided to dress up and hit the town on our own. We took a cab to the Depot District and had a blast. Here are a few pics we took while waiting for our cab to come get us.