Goodbye 2006, Hello 2007

Oh Mylanta where did this year go? With moving and our crazy work schedules and trips, this year has flown by.

It seems like we celebrated Christmas all month to make sure both sides of the family were covered. I feel like Katie Bonk with my tour of North and South Carolina to visit everyone and never stop eating. I am glad the New Year is here and I totally welcome those black-eyed peas. A nice change of pace and a start to the conversion back to healthy food.

Is has been nice the past week and a half to have some extra time to relax and get somewhat of a jump start on my spring cleaning. I rearranged my scrapbook shelves because Santa brought me a cricut machine. LOVE IT! Now my room is all neat and organized. I will post some much promised pictures after I receive my Adobe Photo Elements in the mail. It should be here this week. From what I understand it is easier to merge all your photos together in one image and then upload to your blog. Otherwise it would probably take me over two hours to upload all the photos I want to share.

Here’s a little blurb about our year in review:
I traveled to New Orleans (3 times) and Jacksonville for work
Mister Chris traveled to Germany two times for work
We played a lot of golf in the spring, but slacked off during the summer
Sold our house and bought a new house and moved at the end of June
Our vacation this year was to Hawaii in July
My best friend Karo had her baby in September
We went to Boone in October to see the ASU/Furman Game
I went to my first (and not last) scrapbook retreat in October
I discovered in November that I had three kidney stones (Mister Chris is never sick… it’s just not fair)
ASU won the national title in football for the second year in a row

It was quite a busy year. And now it’s the 31st and the fun is not over yet. The weather is quite crummy today. Mister Chris and I had thought about going to Charleston for New Years but decided not to at the last minute. Now we are glad we passed it up and saved the money. Instead we went out today and bought an elliptical machine. Since we canceled our gym membership earlier this year, I decided that something had to be done or I was just going to keep expanding and have to buy all new clothes. That is definitely not an option at this point. Tonight we are headed out with Mister Chris’s brother and his new girlfriend. It should be fun to finally meet her. I will probably be ringing in the New Year and heading straight to bed. The rain is making me very sleepy today and I am not sure how long I will last.

Happy 2007 to everyone out there. I hope to be posting more in 2007 because it is one of my top five new year’s resolutions.

They Did It

ASU just won their second consecutive national title!!!!! In the words of Katie Bonk: It is indeed GREAT to be a MOUNTAINEER!!!!! Now last year's trophy has a little sister. Katie my challenge to you is to get a picture with both of Chancellor Peacock's rings. Bling Bling.

Once A Month Blogger

So yes, I am a slacker. That has definitely been determined. A lot can happen in one month and my brother was ragging me about my lonely blog. I keep telling myself I will sit down and work on it some, but the holiday madness seems to be extra crazy this year. I can’t explain it because nothing has changed. Where do I start?

Happy Anniversary to my parents!! They have been married 38 years today.

I did survive kidney stone number one and it is in possession of the water system people somewhere. Numbers two and three and still hanging tight in the kidneys for now. I have been instructed to drink lots, I mean lots, of fluids and avoid dairy. I have to say I am not much into dairy, but I do prefer my occasional glass of milk before bed so I can actually get more than 5 hours of sleep. I go back in March to see if the little devils have grown any. Let’s hope not.

11 days until Christmas and counting. This year Christmas has two phases. Phase 1 was completed last weekend in NC with my family. I was such a last minute shopper this year that those gifts never made it under the tree. I still have no gifts under the tree because I have not started shopping for Phase 2. I am hoping to catch up this weekend and be finished so I can enjoy the last week before Christmas. This weekend I also get to make all my goodies for the office. I know I am definitely making several batches of chex mix and attempting some cookies. We’ll see how that goes. I need to pull out some cookbooks to get more ideas for goodies to share.

Tonight we are having a Christmas party at our house for all of the peeps that Mister Chris works with. It should be fun. Mister Chris has to fulfill his end of the challenge due to Clemson’s loss to USC. He has a uniform and pom poms and is going to do a cheer for us. This should be interesting. I will definitely hiding in the corner with the camera. Although I may not be able to take any pictures because I will be rolling on the floor. We’ll see how it goes.

And finally, in the words of Katie Bonk: IT’S GREAT TO BE A MOUNTAINEER!!!!! I will be watching tomorrow night as ASU is GOING FOR 2 in the national title game against UMass. GO APPS!!

That’s all I can think of for now. I will try to get better at posting. Perhaps a New Year’s Resolution. Oh yet another list.