Brandi's Babblings: 2008

Monday, December 29, 2008

Bowling for Fun....

So, Sunday afternoon, we did a family bowling time. We bowled for a couple of hours and we had a great time. Enjoy the pictures~

Who's got the ball? Or does the ball have her???

here goes the pro....

I think she just threw the ball....

who's' hips are them there swinging?

look at that form....WOW!

she's copying her momma....

studly...

The Matriarch

and the Patriarch

the beauties :~}

I am sure he is telling us what to do....

There's my man!

cutie cousins

crazy sisters....

can they all smile at the same time??

there's some smiles...

Nana loving her boy~ her only boy!

Hey~watch that hand!

Can you hear me Nana???

There is Sissy's stud muffin.....

got her game own, see those hips in action???

They look guilty, huh??

My favorite thing to do at Christmas time is to look at the Lights. Why? I am not really sure, but I know that if I don't look at the lights, my heart is heavy. One of the best ways for me to get a gin on, is to go to the Festival of Lights. So, this year, we actually went after Christmas, because I was waiting for my sweet niece to enjoy it with me. So, here are a few pictures from the light show.

It was raining pretty hard, there is a reflection of the lights in the puddle.

a little blurry, but you get the idea...

Hope you enjoyed the pictures....

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas~

To start our morning off....we woke to a white Christmas.

I think it was my first one...that I remember anyway.

After stockings, we read the Christmas story and pray. It is our way of reminding us why we are doing this in the first place. Bugg chose to read the story this year.

Just some morning pictures of the girls...

This was my gift from Bugg...

She loves photography and I love her pictures....

so, she gave me a framed collage of some of my favorites!

We headed out to Nana and Papas in the early afternoon, after I finished making the turkey and the dressing. T-rex hates getting loves from the girls...so Bugg really took advantage of that.

Peanut and curly sue, didn't mind so much.

Sister, was having so much fun with us~ we were playing cards

Nana~always has her eyes on Sister

don't they look like they are up to something????

Rock on!! Curly Sue~

all three of the younger ones, got the guitar hero for the DS, so that is what they were consumed with

Hubs having some pie

Aunt and Niece having a moment

Peanut enjoying one of her gifts...

doing what they do best~

and doing what we do best...

Showin' Dad how to do the Guitar Hero thing....

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve~

So, we headed out to the Luiz's for Christmas eve. We arrived just before 6. I started taking pictures of the tree.....

then the entire lights went out, not just blew a fuse went out, but the entire block went out. So I have Peanut call Nana and Pop while we are lighting candles to see if it is up there way as well. They are only a few blocks from the Luiz house. Well, Nana and Pop are out as well. We hadn't started dinner yet, Cay was cooking some pecan bars, so the dinner was on hold.

Ken, didn't budge much. Thought the lights were out, nothing to do....

He didn't either.

Peanut and Kaylee went to her room to hang out in the dark.

The rest of us decided that since we have no dinner, we will eat chips and dip. I had brought Chile cheese dip, Dorothy had made fresh salsa and Cay had made a guacamole dip. So to the table for chips we went.

and again...

Bugg really wanted to open presents, so she and Michelle were reading magazines by candle light.

So we decide, this might take a while and in the mean time; Eric finds that his grill is out of propane, so we can't really finish the dinner on the grill either. What else is there to do??? Open presents.