Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! I thought about sending out cute little Christmas cards like my sisters did, but 1. Gabe and I are so good looking we didn't want other people to be jealous (I'm kidding..kind of :)) 2. I was to lazy and never did anything in time. So the 2nd one is more accurate. But we do want to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to everyone. We drove to Dallas last night and then the rest of the way to my in-laws today. Normally it is an okay drive to Gabe's sisters in Dallas it's just five hours. It took us over 6. Right as we were leaving Gabe said he wasn't feeling well. Of course in my wisdom I said lets go home and drive it all the next day. Of course men don't listen and he said he was fine. Just when we were far enough away that turning back didn't make since, we had to pull the car over so Gabe could throw up on the side of the highway. Let me premise with the fact that I had been sick all week so I wasn't feeling up to driving, and driving at night on highways is a fear on mine. So with a sick husband I had to suck up my pounding head and fears and drive the rest of the way stopping at various restaurants and pull offs for Gabe. We finally made it and both had a horrible nights rest keeping each other up with our different aliments. But we made it to Tyler today and we are both feeling better. It is great to be with family. I will miss being with my parents and siblings this year, but it is always a wonderful time here with the Eyerlys. I am lucking to have 2 wonderful families. I'm sure this week will be filled with a lot of fun, food, and video games (for the boys).
I hope everyone gets to all their destinations this Christmas safely! Yay for Christmas and Yay for the True reason we celebrate Christmas; Christ. I am so grateful for the blessings in my life that come from the Savior.

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The Gambler in Me

Last night we had an appreciation dinner for the Rec Center at Mr Gattis, it's like Chuckie Cheese, but for grown ups too. Well they gave us all like five tokens, I used all of mine on that light game; where the light goes around and you have to stop it right in front of you in the bonus thing. I was always so close, just one off. Plus I have won this game before, so knowing that it could be done, I just couldn't stop. Five tokens is like nothing, luckily I have a husband who enjoys games more than me and he bought a whole pocket full of tokens. Boy did that light game make me mad, I was so close eventually I just had to walk away. I found a new game I might like even better. A ball spins around a wheel and you have to guess what color it is going to end on. If you guess right you get a large amount of tickets, the smaller the color section the more tickets. I did pretty well. In all I think I ended up with a little over a thousand tickets. It was fun, and I got some sweet, cheap prizes that I could of bought at a dollar store. But it was worth it! I'm just glad we don't gamble because Gabe and I would probably be broke.

The Perfect Tree

Gabe won't let us do anything Christmas related until after Thanksgiving, so last night we went out and found our Christmas Tree. Jonathan, Casi, and Chris Talbert came along for the festivities. I got out all my Christmas decorations and we decorated the tree and drank hot chocolate. It was just like a little Christmas movie. I can't believe it is already Christmas time. Here are a few of my favorite Holiday things.
1. Celebrating Christs birth
2. Spending time with Friends and Family
3. Christmas Movies (I love all the cheesy ones especially)
4. Christmas Music (Yeah for my James Taylor Christmas CD)
5. Christmas Candy and Treats
6. How nice and giving everyone is around Christmas

No more Turkey or Jello

Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Mine was very good. Gabe and I stayed here and had two families over for dinner the Ripplingers and Talberts. It was so nice to just relax and not have much to do. I made my first turkey. It only took about 4 calls to my mom in the process. In the end I think it came out pretty good. Gabe has been eating it for the last four day so I guess its good. Everyone brought so much delicious food, I think I was full before I had even tried every thing. We had a ton of turkey left, a whole bowl of jello and a whole pan of another kind of jello salad. Gabe has done a good job in finishing it all off though. I haven't had to cook for a while(not that I cook ever though) but at least I know Gabe has had food to eat. We went to the Texas Tech game on Saturday, thank goodness we won. It made sitting in the cold wind worth it. Now its back to normal life. It was nice sleeping in and lounging around, but I guess I'm ready to be productive again I still wish I could sleep in though.