Girls Night Out...For Me and Linda's Birthdays!!!

The girls from work wanted to take Linda and I out for our birthdays because they fall so close together.  My 33rd birthday fell on the 6th and her 47th birthday fell on the 13th so we decided to do a girls night out on Friday the 10th to split the difference!  We went to a quaint little Cuban/Mediterranean restaurant called Mama Roomba and everything we ordered was FABULOUS!!!  It was a really nice night with good company!

Left to Right--Angela Westbay, Angie White, Me, Kim Smith, Linda Bradbury

Left to Right--Angela Westbay, Angie White, Me, Kim Smith, Kacey McNew

Happy 33 To Me...Cheers!!!

It's my birthday and Mom and I decided to go have dinner (and drinks) at Chili's to celebrate!  Gotta say dinner was good and the company was GREAT!  Thanks Mom.

How Many Blondes Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb???

Pretty sure when you go to unscrew a burned out light bulb to replace it with a shiny new one it is not supposed to come out of the socket with out it's base!?!  Now I have the open metal base connected to a live socket and no bulb...hmmm.  I called Mom for ideas and she said she'd heard you could use a potato but I didn't have any.  In the end, with the breaker turned off I was able to unscrew the metal base without getting electrocuted and a new light proudly shines in the socket where this bulb casualty took place!

Belated X-Mas 2011 @ Grandma Nita's House

Andrea's youngest, Devin and Carter

Xmas Break Visit to Grandma Audrey's house.

Wayne got a few days off so he and I went on a day trip up to Camp Nelson to visit with Grandma Audrey and Grandpa Marvin.  Sorry, Wayne and I failed...we didn't take any photos but we did help Grandma and Grandpa set up their computer and internet so that they can navigate to our emails and blogs easier!

Christmas 2011 at the Grimes' House!!!

Wrapped and Ready!!!

Christmas is tomorrow...gotta get everything wrapped up and ready!!!

Dozens, Dozens & more DOZENS of cookies!!!

Kim and I must've gone CRAZY this year because we decided to give the gift of sugary treats to all the folks in our SPED department!  We made boxes for all the aides, teachers, clerical secretaries, bosses, etc!  We had found these really cute bakery boxes in Visalia at Hobby Lobby on one of our road trips in search of creativity and bargins.  I think we made 10 different kinds of goodies by the time we filled up all of the boxes!  We had peppermint bark, snicker-doodles, pumpkin bars, toffee chip cookies, spice cookies, haystacks, chocolate covered peanut butter patties, peanut butter covered Nutella patties, sugar cookies with a white chocolate peppermint Hershey kiss, and chocolate chocolate chip cookies!  They were VERY well received!!!  I then made some plates of cookies that I had left over to take to family!