Tamale Day!!!

My mom and I drove up to Florence, AZ today to make tamales with my best friend, TimaSue, and her family. We've done this for several years and it is always a lot of fun...and a lot of work...but soooooo worth it! Yummy tamales!

Meat tamale fixins



Micki, me, Tima, and Mark

Micki, Tima, and Mark


Tima and Andrew mixing masa

Mark's first time mixing the masa (masa is the corn mixture that is in tamales)...you mix it all up with your hands...its fun and gooey :)



Me, Mark, and Tima (they are Cowboys fans if you couldn't tell ;-) )


Katrina and Micki chopping cheese

Random sister pictures

Wow, my sister and I look like twins! (hahahaha, yeah right)

Monica and her bee-yew-tee-full engagement ring

Minding the kiddo (and the dogs)

My Apparently Annual Christmas Party

So the past couple of years I have had a Christmas party when I get into Phoenix so I can see all my friends at once (since I usually have limited time to visit before heading down to see my folks) so, this year, my friend Kristi volunteered to host my party. Thanks Kristi!

Me pulling weeds with Kristi...

Lynn's meat lasagna and my veggie lasgana

Doing the white elephant thing...

Mark and Randy chowing down

More white elephanting...

Okay, last snow post

It is still snowing...3 hrs later!

Yeah...my plants are toast...

And I capped of my snow evening by making a snow angel :)

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Warning: I am from Arizona. I live in Houston. Snow is a BIG deal for me (so all you Northerners and Easterners can keep your condescending comments to yourselves...that includes asymmetrical snowman comments).

So, it's snowing in Houston right now and I MADE A SNOWMAN!!!! Wait! Actually, I made TWO!!! WAHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Ha! You can see my footprints in the...what's that!? Oh that would be snow!

Hehe...snowman...

Awww...

Ahhhh...more white stuff...

Family portrait :D

Picnic Time!

Today was what appears to becoming our church's annual picnic. It was a beautiful day and fun to spend some time out in the sunshine. Here are a few pics...album at the bottom

Jolene, Patricia, and Mikaela



Three of my girls: Karmetra, Kamyl, and Corrine



Claire, Pam, and Brenda (Pam and Claire are going to be my roommates in January!!!)



Me and Jillian



Nathaniel and the ball

Church Picnic 2008

Christmas Party

My friend Erin hosted a great Christmas party on Friday. I have never seen so many people crammed into one house before! And her decorations were beautiful...unfortunately all my shots of the decorations were blurry...bad operator :)

I love the set up!


Melissa, Me , and Lisa



Me and Josh



Christina and Todd



Tarik, Lisa, and Todd



Moose and Karen



Josh and Lisa