A Wonderful Christmas, as Always!!

Christmas is always such a wonderful day! I absolutely love it! We went out to breakfast first thing Christmas morning (8:30am). We went with Jemremy and Kristi and the boys (see Two Boys Blog). It was a lot of fun, we exchanged gifts at Black Bear Diner and had a huge breakfast. After that we went to church and enjoyed a fun Christmas message from Pastor Thomas. Then we went over to the Klocke's and ate again! After lunch we opened presents. That was obviously quite enjoyable. For the rest of the afternoon we just hung out eating and playing games. When we left there at about 8:30pm, we went over to Kevin and Heather's and watched the kids open a few more gifts. We then watched Fantastic Four followed by Hot Shots. Both were good movies in my opinion, but I think I enjoyed Hot Shots more. We finally left there at 12:30 and then we went home. I decided to watch one more movie. Katie Ellyn and Justin got me Super Troopers so I watched it and went to bed about 3:00am this morning. So there you have it, I was able to make my Christmas day last 18.5 hours! It was Great! I hope all of you had wonderful Christmas Days as well! Well, I am off to work! Merry Boxing Day!

Cute Little Turtles

First order of business.



Well, I finally did it, I ordered some turtles over the net! I bet you didn't even know it could be done! My friend's wife saw my turtles and started to really want some for herself. He contacted me and asked where I got mine, so I told him about getting them from the pet store in Nevada. Unfortunately for him I was not going there again anytime soon, but I told him about this site on the internet where I found out I could order turtles. We decided to go ahead and order them and, long story short, three baby turtles arrived safely via UPS yesterday (two for them, one for us).




As you can see, these are some tiny little turtles. That one picture is one of the little guys next to a quarter and a penny, the other one he's next to a quarter. Hopefully these will help you to get an idea of how small they are. I also put the picture of the container that they shipped in. I found it interesting that they packed them in packing peanuts inside that little container. The last picture is a little blurry, but it shows one new turtle next to my two larger turtles. The large ones seemed very intrigued by these new additions to their tank.

Just so that you don't have to go scrolling down to find my Christmas list link, I have now (temporarily) added it to my links section.

I almost forgot, if you don't know why I put that first picture up there, then go to Justin Myers' Blog and take the quiz yourself!

Another post from little ol' me!

So, how is everyone, is anyone still reading this? Apparently I haven't posted in a while, because I've been catching a lot of slack for it! Anyway, here I am again.

I have this whole week off and I think I will enjoy it. All side jobs are off until after Christmas and there is still no overtime available at Wal Mart. I plan to use this week to do a little more cleaning in the garage and learn some more about my new computer. I want to see if I can install a second operating system on my other internal hard drive and then choose which system to boot from. I also want to still be able to transfer files between those two systems without a big hassle. Hopefully I will be able to figure that out this week! (Just a side note, I am currently still a Mac fan!)

I am enjoying playing on the computer and I think that when I get into some classes I will have a good time with them.

Now, for all to enjoy, the Christmas Quiz.

Hot Chocolate or Egg Nog?
Hot Chocolate.

Does Santa wrap the presents or just set them under the tree?
Who's Santa? I did see a fat guy stealing some of our cookies one time, maybe I shouldn't have hit him with the pool cue.

Colored or white lights on the tree/house?
Blue Lights, I love them!

When do you decorate?
I worked while Brenda decorated the tree on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

What is your favorite holiday dish?
It certainly isn't green bean casserole, I guess I'll have to go with Shrimp Creole, but I'm not sure if I've ever had that at Christmas.

Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
Reading that incredibly long Christmas story that is now much shorter. I absolutely love spending time with family!!!
Every year when we go to get our tree I think about the Christmas in Canada when we took our minivan to get a tree and then lost our keys in the snow, we hadn't locked the van, but we couldn't start it so Mom, Katie and I waited in the van huddled together under a blanket while Dad went to get the other keys. I don't know why, but I have always remembered that!

Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Christmas eve, one gift, all others Christmas morning.

What kind of cookies do you set out for Santa on Christmas Eve?
I told you, I didn't set them out, he snuck in and was rummaging through the pantry.

Snow! Love it or hate it?
I love the snow!

Can you ice skate?
Yeah, but I haven't been in a while.

What is the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Jesus' birth and spending time with those you love!!

What’s your favorite holiday dessert?
I'm not a real big dessert fan, but after two heaping helpings of Shrimp Creole I like to wash it down with a slightly smaller helping of Creole!

What type of tree?
Either one as long as the other folks in the household like it!

Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
I really enjoy both!

What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
Wow, I don't know, I love too many of them!

Candy Canes, YUCK or YUM?
Yuck on all counts, I don't even like the flavored ones, but somehow I still seem to eat on every year.

What is your favorite New Years tradition?
I love eatin' them tasty oysters!!!

I love you Dad!!!

Disneyland fun and Christmas

Well, I haven't posted in a while, but I went to Disneyland. I was quite sick on the first day we were there, but I improved a little each day for the remainder of the trip. I had a good time. Having never been there before, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but Brenda assured me that it truly was the "Happiest Place on Earth"! While I am not sure about that, I know that it was pretty cool and I will probably be willing to go back some day (when there are less people there). I will spare you all of the details and just say that it is a well made park and the intense dedication the builders obviously put into creating a "Disney" atmosphere has certainly paid off! Any of you who haven't been there would enjoy it if you went!

Now, for the Christmas part of my post. I have told many of you about my endeavor to create and E-Christmas list and email to all. I realized this morning that it would be much easier to just make one and place a link to it here. I would also be more than happy to email the link to anyone interested*. So, withour furthur ado, here is the link.


(Click on the picture) As I state at the bottom of my E-List, I may add some more items later, but this is what I came up with this morning!


*Please Note: This is not an attempt to get everyone who reads this blog to buy me presents, it is simply an answer to anyone who asked me what I want for Christmas.

Failed Post

Well, since my last post (directed at my MOM and DAD and GRAND-MOM and GRAND-DAD) seems to have failed, I decided to go ahead and post again.



As you can see, I have been pretty busy since my last post. The days of overtime that I was hoping to work became unavailable so I was able to work on my computer. I am writing this post from my new PC! While still a Mac fan, I have finally got most of the kinks worked out of this system. The biggest struggle I am running into right now is with my multiple card reader. For some reason when I insert a card I get an error which says no card has been inserted, this error repeats from two to five times as I push cancel over and over. After that my pictures import like normal. If any of you faithful PC users have a solution for this, please, let me know. Thanks! (PS- I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling my drivers and I have looked on-line for other available drivers, all to no avail!!!)