Happy Holidays!

   Hello everyone and a very, very belated Happy Holidays. I have been so busy I am just now getting around to this! I hope you all had a happy holidays! We did! A crazy one too!

    Bonnie and I were going to be Rapunzel and her lizard Pascal for Halloween, so I ordered a costume online. But my card was declined, and it didn't notify me till a few days before Halloween! So, G's hockey team was going to a Stars game and he wasn't using his ticket. So for Halloween I was a Stars fan! It was fun. I like going to hockey games and hanging out with G's team.

   I spent Thanksgiving and my 18th birthday with my friend Katie and her family in California! It was a lot of fun! We went into San Francisco and I got to see the Bay Bridge lights and go to Ghirardelli Square! I also bought clothes. AND the Seahawks beat the 49ers, on Thanksgiving, which was also my birthday! 

To top it off, when I got home Bonnie was waiting at the airport for me!  (Oh, ya, and on the flight there I had the WHOLE row to myself! YES! It was great!) One of my presents was supposed to arrive in the mail when I got to Katie's and it didn't get there until right after I left for the airport! Darn!

  A couple weeks after that I flew to Seattle to hang out with my family and go to a Seahawks game! I also got to go see the Space Needle and go to Pikes Place Market! It was nice to be back in Seattle I haven't been back since I left 12 years ago. AND to top it off the Seahawks beat the 49ers again! :)

It was pretty cool -  I flew in on 12/12 (the ultimate 12th Man Day haha) and then the Hawks won on the 14th and I flew home the 15th...the day they retired the number 12 for the fans back in 1984! Also, I was allowed to board the plane home early, because I was wearing a Russell Wilson shirt! 

At the top of the space needle!

My cousin and I with the SeaHulk and his wife!

  Then I came home and went to school the next day and took 2 finals that I wasn't even able to study for, because honestly...why would I spend any of my 3 days in Seattle studying? So I hope I passed! I took the rest of my finals and I got out of my culinary class. I have more about that in another post.

  Finally! It was break and I got out a day earlier than everyone else, because of the way my classes worked out with the early release days! I wen to see the Broadway show of one of my favorite movies "ONCE" and it was really good! The next day I went to a Christmas party for the hockey team! It was fun and quite entertaining watching them sing Christmas carols for the people at the nursing home, until I was told I had to go help the players sing. G wasn't even there -  he was visiting New York!

   I also made a gingerbread log cabin, except I just skipped the frosting and used hot glue....

I also made cupcakes and cookies and they were really good!! Mom and I put up the tree and I decorated it.

  On the 23rd we were asked if we could do an emergency fostering from one of the vets near by, so we picked them up on Christmas Eve. They were very cute sisters named Nessa and Elphaba, the only problem is they didn't tell us who was who! So we call them Blue and O because of the colors of their collars. That made a total of 5 dogs at our house, but all of them get along sooo well! Now over a month later they are both adopted and Clyde misses his girly O.

Sleepy pups!

Dolly and Nessa (Blue) checking something out.

Elphi O as we called her sometimes was here a couple weeks longer than Nessa.

She made herself right at home. (and there's a Bon Bon burrowed in the blankets in the back ground)

A typical wrestling session - girls against Clyde. Don't worry Clyde is fine. He loved it! He would always go right back at them. 

   Back to Christmas Eve. We went to Buca Di Beppo, like we do every year, for Christmas Eve dinner. Christmas was fun! Our pups got new toys, which all 5 dogs have had fun with! Bonnie loves, LOVES, L.O.V.E.S. her toy she's played with it almost non-stop everyday! I got a new camera!! YAY!! I've got some really good photos already! I also got nail polish and pens and squishy sand! It's like playdoh and sand together! I'm really 6 years old lol :)! I also got one of those spirograph things. I loved the one I had when I was little, but I lost it. Now I have one again! I also got a book about Kalispell, MT (where my grandma lives). It has really funny police reports and they turned them into a book! I also got gift cards and a candle!

Everyone in their Christmas clothes!

Just like me Bonnie was not a fan of dresses and more a fan of sweaters.

Also this happened! Dolly tolerated Bonnie!! 

   The next day mom and I both felt a little sick, but we still decide to drive an hour and a half down to Bluff Dale, TX to have dinner at a restaurant that was at the March of Dimes Signature Chef thing and was really good! But, we got down there just to find it's closed. Nothing online said it was closed! So we started to drive back sad, sick and starving! Luckily, It wasn't very late and Ft. Worth has other restaurant we like so we went there!

   The next day we had been planning on seeing Bob Schneider, but we were so sick we just couldn't do it and usually I can suck it up for a concert! I was just way too sick this time! We did however go to the Seahawk watching party and guess what I got to wear? My birthday present (that arrived late at Katie's) an official Russell Wilson jersey from my grandma! Finally here! It was delayed because of storms 2 times!

   We haven't done much else, but get better and take care of the dogs. New Years eve was very mellow because we were still sick, but Mom and I had fun making fun of the DFW New Years Special. 

Now, I'm back in school. Ugh, it's so chaotic.

Anyways, I have a lot of cool stuff planed. I am the Signature Chef Ambassador family for the March of Dimes, so I was asked to speak at a Kick-Off dinner in Fort Worth and helped teach a Family Teams Training. Plus more stuff coming up that i'm helping in! My mom and I also went to  Austin with about 100 other volunteers to meet with representatives at the state capitol to lobby for March of Dimes issues. I am  also going to Charlotte N.C. to learn more about the Hydrocephalus Association WALKS so I'm going to be more of a leader in the upcoming walk this year! I'm excited!

A good attempt got 3 of the 5 dogs in the photo!

Happy New Year!