wow, busy weekend.....I am nowhere near ready to head back to work tomorrow and yet I wouldn't trade this weekend for anything.

On Saturday, we hosted all of Kevin's side of the family (15 adults + 6 kids) for our Christmas gathering and had such a great time!!!   I loved getting to visit with everyone, and since everyone brought different dishes to share it wasn't too much work for anyone.  We ended up with more desserts than anything else!  Only 2 members of the family weren't able to make it -one cousin was in Washington state with Sam Houston State for their playoff game (we had it on tv and they won!).   I was really happy to meet the newest member of the family, baby Caroline... she is so cute, and our niece was in awe of her -- a living version of her baby dolls!

The kids (ages 3 to 13) even had their own space and spent most of it playing Rockband -- next time we need to teach them how to change songs.  they probably know how to...and yet we kept hearing the same song (The Killers when we were young) over and over and over.  We love that our house is large enough to host everyone, and hope to have many more gatherings - its actually our second time to host Christmas.

We cleaned up a bit last night, including fixing a chair that the rung had come out -- picnic table makes a great work bench!   After that we watched part of "Office Space"  - K can quote nearly all of it, and yet we still love to watch it, and then crashed -- its a busy day being host/hostess!


Today (Sunday) I went to the Texans game with Kevin. Thanks to my mother-in-law for letting me use her ticket!  It was a rainy day when we headed down there (perfect weather to wake up early and read my book, yes I'm a nerd).  We played the Colts, great to win and with that win we are once again AFC SOUTH Champs!

We wrapped up our day with takeout deep dish pizza from a great local place.   We were planning to eat there but they let us know they were only doing take out, actually worked out better - we could spend a little time at home with Smokey (he spent Saturday at my in-laws).