O' Tannenbaum, O'Tannenbaum...

Oh. My. Gosh. Our tree. It's ENORMOUS!
Here goes the story of the Crawford Christmas tree.
Our friend, Steve, has a Christmas tree farm. Neat. We get a free tree. The weekend we had planned to up and pick one out, cut it down (do all the fun things involved in a real tree), Steve tells us "Oh, you can't come up this weekend, it's family weekend and I didn't know that when I told you it was a good weekend." We ask if he can bring one back for us (first mistake).
Steve: "Suuuuure! What size would you like?"
Trey: "Eh, 6 foot, MAYBE 7 foot."
Steve: "Sure, no problem."
Steve gets back from the "farm" with our beloved tree.
Steve: "Well we had a big storm up there this year, so all the trees were leaning on each other which made for a bad side."
Courtney: "Perfect! That would be great to put in the corner!"
Steve: "Well, I dug around through them all and found the one that looked the best, which happened to be on the end, so it's NICE!"
We unload it from his truck, put it in ours, get home and put it in the stand on the driveway (second mistake).
Courtney: "Wow, we're going to have to trim this thing a lot!"
Trey: "I told him 6-7 feet tall...not TEN!" (No lie, the thing was the size of my Tahoe...Steve will NOT be picking our tree out next year!)
So we trimmed it up and decided that it should stay on the driveway overnight until the next evening to put it in the house so that all the sap could kinda "dry up". (3rd mistake) GUESS WHAT! It rained the next day. And not only did it rain, but it effing poured! So it stayed out another night. We drug it in the house the NEXT day. Sap, pine needles, leaves, you name it...EVERYWHERE. You ask, "do vacuum cleaners like sappy pine needles?" NO! THEY DO NOT! That was another disaster in itself. Being the size that it was, in comparison to our fake one last year, I have like 1/3 the ornaments the sucker needs. Ya know how every year there's some ornaments that just don't make the cut? Well, even those made it this year. And no, a tree topper does not fit. Here is a photo of our lovely tree.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Welp, Houston has set another weather record this December. Our first, and possibly only, snowfall was today, 12/4/09. Last year our first (and only if I remember correctly) was on 12/10/08. I'd have to say that this years' "blizzard" was a bit worse than last year's. Here are a few pictures...

This is what I drove home in. (and the light had JUST turned green...I was NOT being dangerous!)

This is the house looking from the street.

This is the backyard standing at the back door.

Here I am "covered" in snow!

This little guy had the dogs all riled up on our walk tonight. The neighbors down the street built him. Isn't he cute?!

Black Friday

Those of you who were crazy enough to get out and do this "black Friday" crap...more power to you. I don't even get in the car on black Friday....of course this year was an exception. Me, Trey, Leslie, Amy, and Kaila all went to the Renaissance Festival (and thank goodness I was not the driver). It was the last weekend so it was rather crowded, though not much more than usual. Trey was still able to get all of his foods on a stick...because "everything tastes better on a stick"...except pickles in his case.
I wish I would have had my camera plastered to my eyeball at all times because OMG you would not believe the stuff we saw. Sadly, the few pictures I did get did the costumes NO justice whatsoever, therefore, I'm not going to post any right now. I got a couple cute ones of Kaila on her rides, but I'm just not feelin' the photo posting today. I really just wanted to let ya'll know what I did on "black Friday". Because I know you were just DYING to know :) Plus, I just felt the need to tell you that my shoulder is killing me from playing "drench a wench". Trey and I EACH got a huge bucket of bean bags, and would you know it, neither one of us knocked that wench in the water!

Uhm, seriously?

Thanksgiving..

So we had 2 Thanksgivings this year...as is every year. It just depends on who they are with. One is ALWAYS with Aunt Marie. For the past 3 years now we have said "wellll..it might be the last one"...she's 99! So really, this might have been the last year. Since she was forcibly moved to Houston, she has been really depressed and it's too bad because she has such a feisty personality.

The second Thanksgiving this year was with my family. It was same ol'. Nothing big..just spending time with family and watching the UT vs. A&M game. Even I will admit that it was a good one.

Sadly, I have no photos of these events this year. Oh well.

Dad's turn!

I love it!
It's finally Dad's turn. He sent this photo from his Blackberry this morning. (I know, Dad has finally upgraded to a camera phone!) Danielle will be the last of the family to get hers...on Dec. 21st! Can't wait for all of us to be free of contacts and glasses :)

The Spazmatics

My friend and co-worker, Lisa convinced me to go to a bar downtown called "Sammy's Place". I was not originally fond of the idea since it was a "school night", but it was 80's night. I thought that it could be fun. So I agreed to go. Oh boy am I glad I did. I had a blast. The cover band that plays every Thursday night for 80's night was called "The Spazmatics." When I saw them, they were definitely not the picture I had in my head of an 80's cover band. They were so freakin' hilarious. Here are some photos.


The Spazmatics.

Me, Lisa and Geoffrey of the Spazmatics.

Me and Lisa

Trey and I enjoying the performance :)

So for Halloween, Trey and I thought it would be fun to go to Audra's (a girl I work with) Halloween party as mexicans. He was "Guillermo" (which he hates-the name that is) and I was "Lolita".




Here is our next door neighbor, Adrian. He's a clown, though missing some of his costume. Isn't he precious?!






And this is the neighbor's (The Rightmeyer's) dog, Teddy. Hilarious!