2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On New Years my luck struck again because I landed an on-call shift. I thought for sure I would have been scheduled to work at night but I wasn't. Now who is really going to come to the movies on New Years Eve? I didn't want to get my hopes up but I was almost positive I wouldn't be called in for my shift that night. I called in at 4:30 and they told me they didn't need me so I got real lucky again.
My parents were in Wisconsin on their Granite Peak ski trip this weekend so we were home by ourselves with grandma. Now my parents told my sister she could have a few of her friends over but they all ended up bailing on her. So in the end I decided to have John and my good friend Olivia from work over instead. So last minute my New Years Eve turned out to be absolutely wonderful! Olivia and John both had to work but they still made it over before midnight and we partied down for about 20 minutes until midnight came around. After midnight we just had fun eating food, listening to music, and watching everyone party in New York on the Dick Clark show.
Olivia and I also attempted to learn Beyonces single ladies dance on YouTube and John and Olivia danced the jig...
:)

Happy 2012.. a little bit late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Day

I cant say I'm a very lucky person but this holiday my luck really turned around. I was supposed to work a 2-10 pm shift on Christmas which is terribly awful. I mean honestly who wants to work on Christmas day? One of the guys at my work ended up switching with me though and I was so grateful. He didn't want to work Christmas Eve and I didn't want to work Christmas day. So I ended up switching with him and working his morning shift until 2:00 pm on Christmas Eve so I was still able to enjoy the night at Kyle and Teri's. He took my Christmas day shift so I had off completely. It was a win win situation in the end and I'm so happy I was able to all my time with the family.
On Christmas Day we don't really do to much but its still nice to have it off and be lazy all day. In the morning we woke up and opened presents. My sister and I got matching tire gages for our cars this year since we've been having tire problems recently. My mom got a deep fryer from my dad with some funnel cake mix. We recently tried it out on her fried chicken recipe and it was mighty tasty. I'm so anxious to make some funnel cake in the fryer. My dad got a bunch of new clothes and some hats for Christmas and my grandma got a new robe from Kristi and I. Usually she doesn't ask for anything, she says she doesn't want anyone to get her stuff. But this year she actually said she could use a new robe so how could we not get it for her. It's the only thing I've probably ever heard her actually ask for. I'd say this Christmas was quite brilliant despite there being no snow on the ground! :(
Later on in the day Aunt Laurel and Uncle Larry came over and we hung out with them all day, played scrabble, and had a nice dinner later on.

All the presents under the tree.














Grandma trying on her new robe.














Kristi and I showing off our new tire gages!














New shirts for dad.














Christmas Kitty.















New C'n Green Landcare hat.














Mom's new deep fryer.














Carnival funnel cake mix! :)














My new purple leopard pajama pants from dad, so stylish!




















Kristi's new hand weights.














The Ham Hat (as my dad calls it). Holly Ann Mickow.













Mom sporting her new Christmas socks and slippers.














Cafe' Frappe coffee maker so Kristi can make all the fancy coffee's she likes

Christmas Eve

This year for the first time ever we held Christmas Eve at my cousin Kyle and Teri's house. Every year we switch off and somebody new has it. Now that Kyle and Teri have a house and their not busy raising new born babies we've added them into the rotation. My dad's entire side of the family gathers together on Christmas Eve and we all eat a bunch of food and celebrate the holiday together. It's my favorite time of the year because it's the only time my dads entire family is all together at the same time in one house. Everybody is always busy with there own lives and now that there are kids in the family it is hard to get everyone together at the same time. But Christmas Eve we did it and it was marvelous! Everyone made a ton of yummy food, we sang carols, we did our white elephant gifts, and we enjoyed watching all the kids have fun and open their presents. As usual I took a ton of pictures so instead of rambling on about the night I'll just show you all these gorgeous pictures I took!

Cooking














Lillian?














Playing pool in the basement.














The dessert table. Yummy!














Aunt Bobbi and her nephews! ;)














Owen and his girls!














Opening presents.
















Charlie's new Belle doll.














Penis cookies... ?














After Owen got a t.v last year Donna ended up with one this year. Hilarious!














The best white elephant of the night. Kyri loved this duck! :)














Barbie pez dispenser.














Mom and Dad.














Gary, Laurel and Bob.














Jenna and I.














Kyri jamming on the piano.














Charlie and Kyri playing on the piano.














Jessica and Carl.

Ski Club Christmas Party

Wow, it has been a mighty long time since I've posted anything to my blog. With school, work, the holidays, and Christmas break I've been way to busy. To start the holidays off we had our annual Four Winds Ski Club Christmas party on December 17th which we hosted at our house. There were about 35 to 40 people that ended up coming for the party. We had alot of delicious food and way to much dessert as always. To complete the party we did our white elephant which is always the hit of the Christmas party. We had a bunco game, a clock, a doll, a garden bird, another t.v for the third year in a row and quite a bunch of other hilarious gifts.

























The white elephant I gave away this year was a squid hat that I had won at Six Flags Great America over the summer. It is quite funny but I wasn't sure what I was ever going to do with it so I gave it away as a white elephant. It was the hit of the party and we made everyone take a picture with it on.