The most wonderful time of the year?

What a month it's been. I love this time of year and for the most part it has been great. Ricky and I got our tree up the first week of December. I had a cookie baking afternoon with some of my close girlfriends, we've had many fun get togethers with family and friends. We even got our Christmas cards out early!

It all started the weekend of the 9th and 10th. We decided to go to Vegas to watch my little brother rope. We drove up on Friday morning. We were able to watch him rope then go to dinner with Logan, Dad and Renee. Later that evening Emily and Tim and Josh and Nikki met us on the strip. It was great to see them and catch up.
The next morning Saturday we were pulling out of the parking garage when my driver... no names, backed the front end of my car into a pillar! What an awful noise. The rest of our day was a bit solemn.

The day passed as we tried not to think of my clef lipped Acura. Sunday morning we were more than ready to get out of town. But the "party" had just begun! Our brakes went out.
Tuesday I take my car to the shop. As I'm driving there Ricky calls me to let me know his car just died on him.

To make a long, probably kinda boring, story short... 

Brittany had friend w/ AAA toe Ricky and car to shop.

Shop tells Ricky, $275

Boys at work tell Ricky, You Fix Yourself 

Ricky and Brittany make it home, carless

Ricky and Brittany both find rides to work

Brittany picks up car, $560 later

Ricky  tries fixing car..... bad idea

Ricky drives a mile, car dies again

Toe Truck... $100

Brake Masters quote for Ricky, $780 

Moral of story

Don't go to Vegas! 

In the midst of all this car craziness my manager of 2 years announced he would be stepping down. Because of the changes at UOP they couldn't hire a new one so they split us and sent us to new teams. It was a very bitter sweet move. I've grown to love many of these people, some I've been working with for about 4 years now. Though I'll still get to see many of them daily, it will not be the same. Looking at this positively, I'm excited to meet new people, to be under new, more tenured management and I look forward to seeing what will happen in my future. I am also starting school again in January!

Team Christmas Party

All in all we're alive. Our cars run and we had a very Merry Christmas.

We drove to Snowflake Thursday night to spend some time with Dad and Renee. Friday we went to Heber and made tamales with Grandma Lynette. I think we mad over 200 tamales. We even put the boys to work. Ofcourse we expected a lot from Ricky, being hispanic and all, luckily he didn't let us down. Logan tried teaching us all spanish and we came up with some pretty crazy baby names.. our favorite being a mixture of Dana, my mom and Sandra, Ricky's mom. Ready for this one... DANDRA. Isn't it just beautiful? lol

That night we played games at my mom's house and opened our new pajamas. Christmas morning we opened gifts ate a yummy breakfast then drove to Tucson. Christmas with the Francos was also great. We had a gift exchange and a game of White Elephant, more laughing, reminiscing and lots of movie watching.


Baby updates: I've still been feeling great, except for the occasional tummy ache in the evenings. Nothing that keeps me from eating my favorite dinner or has be doubled over the toilet. I am still counting myself lucky. We have our second doctor appointment on Wednesday. I can't wait to see the changes in my little baby.

I hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas and is looking forward to a Happy 2011!