ipod fever

I'm in love with my ipod! I got this last year for Christmas from my parents and it's been the best gift EVER! I am a huge music freak and love all kinds of music. Danin got an ipod this year for Christmas and she wanted all my songs in my itunes library. She knows who has the best! So I decided to shuffle through the first 10 songs and let you all know, what's in my ipod!

Clumsy-Fergie
Tailor Made- Colbie Caillet
The Good Kind-The Wreckers
Cold Hard Bitch-Jet
One In Every Crowd- Montgomery Gentry
I Can't Get Over You-Julie Roberts
Californication- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ice Ice Baby- Vanilla Ice
Water Runs Dy- Boyz to Men
Empire State of Mind- Jay-Z and Alicia Keys

And there you have it!

Messed up in the head

That's right, I think I've finally convinced myself that I have lost my mind! What were we thinking doing this boot camp?? Danin and I went last night to get our "assessment" done for the boot camp we are starting on Jan. 4th. We were thinking they were going to talk to us about what the boot camp consisted of, get our measurements, weigh us, etc. Well let me tell you, NONE of that took place. We show up and she tells us to put our name on this piece of paper. We put our name on it and start reading what it says: Mile_____, Pull Ups_____, Push Ups____, planks_____, Steps_____ and Squats____. Um, lady what does this mean?? She said we are getting tested on all this before we start on Monday. I only freaked out about the MILE. I hate running! I hate running! So we had to do the steps first. We had to jump up on these TALL steps for a minute. Our goal was to get 20! OMG, I thought I was going to die 30 seconds into it. Then we had to do push-ups. Our goal -30- in a minute, I only did 18! Then it was the dreaded mile next. We had to run a mile under 9 minutes. I made it in 9:13. I am so out of shape and this little test proved it. So for the next 4 weeks Danin and I will be waking up around 4:30 and hitting the gym for an hour worth of torture. I need this though! If I like it and I can see changes, I will do another one. My sister has already lost 12 pounds since Dec. 5th! Way to Go Sister!

2010----> Bring it On!

Wow! Christmas came and went, yet again this year. We had a really good Christmas this year. We got to spread out all of our visits so we weren't rushing around. I hate that! We just got back yesterday from a trip to Mexia and Austin to visit Leven's family. Terri, David and the girls watched Taydem for us on Saturday so we could hang out in Austin on 6th street! Fun fun!

Macy and Misti

Taydem racked up again this year with TONS of toys. She thinks she's a little momma. She has like 6 baby dolls now and carries all of them around the house or pushes them in their stroller. She loves it! One of her babies will talk and cry. I watched her yesterday and she tried to talk back to it saying it's going to be ok, but in her words! Her little expression said it all! So sweet.

Trever is STILL in Cancun. He's going to come back all brown, jealous! But he's having a ball there with his cousins and Grans! Lucky boy! He'll come home to tons of presents on his bed!

Leven is still off from work, jealous again! I hate going to work and looking at him as he lay asleep in our bed! Ugh!

I start a boot camp next Monday. It's Monday-Friday from 5-6 A.M.! Yes A.M! I know I've really lost it now, but I really want to see how well it works. It's ONLY 4 weeks. Danin is doing it with me. She's already lost some weight and is looking good, but she wants to keep going. We get measured tonight and then they will measure us again once it's over! Exciting! Wish me luck!

No No Ho Ho

Taydem is finally at an age where she kind of understands Christmas. She's been helping me wrap presents for about a month now and wants so bad to open them! Friday at her daycare Santa Claus came by to visit all the kiddos. Tay's teacher told me that she was terrfied of Santa and wouldn't even go near him! I wanted to take her on Saturday to get her picture taken with him, but she wasn't having it. So of course I had to get in the picture with them! She looked adorable in her little outfit I had on her too! So now everytime she sees a Santa Clause, she says, "No NO Ho HO!

Tay with her boy Cole

This pic is TINY!

Huh? What did you say?

Taydem is talking more and more these days, but it's so hard to understand her. She gets so frustrated with us, b/c she knows what she's talking about, but we don't have a clue! Yesterday when I picked her up from daycare she saw her bag and started saying, "ships." Well I didn't see any "ships" laying around so I ignored her. Well she started yelling it and getting mad at me. Then she started crying! I finally realized she rememberd there were some "CHIPS" in her bag from the other day. (I can't believe she remembered that first of all!) So when I got them out she looked at me and said, "ships mommie!" I busted out laughing. She was so sure of herself. She's a doll!

Leven leaves today to go hunting in South Texas. He's going to our friend's family's land down there, Patrick Meyer! This is the same place where he killed his deer last year. I told him that he can't hang another one up in the house unless it's bigger than the one we already have hanging up!!!!!! I don't want a house full of deer heads on the walls. He's going to be gone until Sunday.

Trever leaves tomorrow night to stay with his mother for Christmas and then heads to CANCUN on Tuesday with Leven's mom and brother! His three cousins are going too. He's so excited he can't even think straight. I helped him pack last night and he opened presents from us.

So that means, Taydem and I will be home alone for a few days. Tonight I have volleyball practice, tomorrow I think we are going to stay with mom and dad, (mom if you're reading this I hope you don't mind), Saturday I have my company Christmas party and we are going to see Santa after that, Sunday Church and more volleyball practice. So it looks like we are going to stay busy!

I truly love this time of year! I LOVE LOVE to give gifts. Leven and I were on a super tight budget this year since we've built the new house and all. I've really had to do some thinking when buying my gifts. I tried to save a lot of money on SALES!! I did so good yesterday. I bought for 7 people and it cost me $35! I went to Hobby Lobby where pretty much the whole store is 50% off right now!! Yippee!! I love when that happens. So I'm offically finished with my shopping. The only thing I have left to buy is a fish! Yes, a fish. We have an 8 gallon aquarium to fill up with water and put fish in it so Tay can see it Christmas morning. We are only going to start with one fish so I can get the water right! Knowing me the thing will be dead in a week. This tank is pretty big. Hopefully later on we will put about 10 fish in there! Tay loves loves fish! She's going to love it.
Until next time
DB

Thank you Uncle Ed!

Oh the weather outside is NASTY!

The weather is so nasty right now. It's wet, cold and dreary! Ugh!

This past weekend was so busy for us. ALL day on Saturday I was at the church getting ready for the two performances we had with Point of Grace. All day! We had to get there at 12:45 to have a practice run through before our first performance at 3! Both performances went really well and we got lots of good feedback from everyone. It was just a long day. I didn't get home until almost ten that night. But, WOW, these three woman can SING! Yesterday we went to church, ate at Jucy's, cleaned house, had vball practice and visited with Mike and Ann. They came down and had Christmas with us yesterday since they will be spending it on the beach in Cancun next week. Lucky dogs!! So we got the UNO cards out one more time. And again, played for 3 hours! I was so pooped when I finally hit the sack last night. Leven got a really cool Christmas gift from them this year. It's an OLD OLD photograph of the night Babe Ruth said his goodbye to the crowd at Yankee Stadium. Mike's ex wife got it for him over 20 years ago at an estate sale. He has hung on to it all these years and it's in good shape. They decided to give it to Leven to put in his trophy room! Sweetness! It's not a copy either. It's on old "yellow" looking paper.

"His jersey number 3 was retired at his last appearance at Yankee Stadium on June 13, 1948, which also commemorated the stadium's 25th anniversary"

Christmas time is coming

I feel like I have so much to talk about. Christmas is right around the corner and I'm almost finished with all my shopping. I knocked out 4 gifts yesterday during my lunch break! This weekend Ann and Mike are coming in since they will be in CANCUN along with Trever during Christmas. My church choir is also putting on a Christmas concert with POINT OF GRACE this weekend. I start volleyball practice this Thursday with my club team! Fun Fun!

Last week Leven and I flew to Canby, Oregon to visit his best friend from high school. Chris and his family were awesome! We both said it was one of our favorite vacations. Everyday they had a different tour waiting for us. This is Stephanie, Payton, Kaelynn and Chris Miller

-The first night we were there Chris cooked ribs and they talked about old memories until bedtime!

- Next day we went skiing up on Mt. Hood. Now this was an experience and one we all three will never forget. Leven has NEVER been skiing before. I have been twice, but the last time was 9 years ago. So we get all our gear on and head out on the snow. (It was sooooooooooo pretty that day!) If you have ever walked in snow boots then you understand. If not, well maybe someday you will. But it's not easy at all. We finally get Leven locked in his ski's and we get on the ski lift. Chris thought that the lift we got on would take us up a little ways and drop us off and then if you wanted you could catch another one up there to take you on to the top. Well, he was wrong! We kept going up and up and up and I started freaking out a little I can only imagine what Leven was thinking. When we finally made it to the top we were trying to tell Leven how to get off the lift. To the right was a drop off, cliff you can say, and to the left was a hard turn down a hill. We did NOT want to go off to the right for sure. Leven started flippin out and before you knew it he was down. And he was pissed! He was so mad at Chris for bringing him all the way to the top not knowing how to ski. And there was really no way of teaching him b/c there were no small hills. Every hill we went down was straight down. So needless to say, after Leven fell oh about 10 times he finally said enough is enough and started walking. I really don't blame him. It took us over and hour to get down and he was shaking when he finally sat down. He was sooooooo weak and by this time we were all sweating! He tried to keep a good attitude about it all. So Chris and I went back and did some more skiing. I don't think he will ever try and ski again after this trip. I took some really good pictures at least!

-That night we went to a local bar and watched Oregon and Oregon State play against each other for the Rose Bowl.

-The following day they took us to Silver Creek Falls. This was one of my favorite places. It was an acutal rainforest, just not tropical! We saw about 3 waterfalls that day and did lots of hiking!

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!

-Friday night we went into Portland and had dinner on the 30th floor of a really cool happening restaurant. We had a table right next to the window so we could see all of Portland at night. Very cool and the food was delicious! After dinner we went and watched their cousin play in a playoff football game downtown Portland! The winners would advance to state. His team lost! But still pretty cool!

-Saturday we got up and it was 22 degrees outside and we were headed to the beach, West Coach Beach that is! All the rocks and cliffs were so different than any other beach we had ever gone too. We got tons off good pictures this day as well.

We loved every minute on this trip and we thank the Millers for being such good hosts! I hope to go back soon one day!