...of mice and men often go awry.
I make plans to post....just hasn't happened much lately.
So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to Brad and Happy Birthday to my mom. Bam! We're caught up.
Even if it was almost an entire month ago, I can't not post pictures of Christmas. It was our first Christmas in our new house...
And it was my mom and Riley's first year to have Christmas at their new house. A long time dream come true for my mom. She turned her house into something that belongs in a magazine. (I say "she" but Riley certainly did his fair share, too.)
My mom's Christmas village
The little fishing village...how cool is this?
And the cherry on top was that we were all there.
Hailey, Cody, and Liam drove down from Oklahoma...
Lori, Mike, and Shiner flew in from Florida...
Aunt Kelli and Joel joined us, too...
And of course, us and the pup...
We even got in a little time with the Gonzales clan...
It was a fantastic Christmas with family...
Aren't they adorable? A little impromptu dancing...
An "A" for effort on the bow, honey
A little smooch for Stella
Cousins
I was so grateful that things worked out the way they did this year. It's always hard to get to see everyone around the holidays but we got pretty lucky. We spent the weekend before Christmas visiting Grandma and Grandpa Beneke then Ma Ma Bingham. My dad and Carmen drove down the Monday before just so we could have dinner together and enjoy a mini Christmas. We spent Christmas weekend at my Mom and Riley's house. Then Debby, Dennis, and Stephanie stopped by on their way through town and we were able to enjoy dinner and another mini Christmas with them. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of any of this which I'm kicking myself for...but we'll always have the memories.
It was nice reminiscing about where we were just one year before...
We celebrated Brad's birthday with a bunch of friends on the 30th and had them all over to our place again the following night to ring in the New Year. I have no pictures to show of this. But believe me, it happened.
And I woke up New Year's Day with a viral sinus infection which knocked me on my butt for almost two weeks. But that's not an exciting story.
What is an exciting story is that I'm working again. I started the middle of December and I'm only contracted through the Super Bowl but so far I'm loving it. It's with a sports marketing consulting agency and I'm working on a program for Verizon. It's Verizon's first year as an official Super Bowl sponsor and I'm working with a small team to plan their events leading up to the big game. The parties and dinners, the athlete appearances, the schnazzy give-aways...it's old hat for some people but I still find it thrilling to be a part of. We'll see what the future holds.
With that said, life is about to get crazy busy until after Super Bowl Sunday. Who know's if there will be another post until after February 6th. But at least I'm telling you now, right? Who knows, maybe Bradley will grace us with his "presence" and do a little posting on our behalf. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
Until next time...
