Surprise...

I completely forgot to blog about my birthday...it just came and went so quickly that I almost don't even feel like it happened! Birthdays to me are less important/fun when you get past 25, so I guess that's why. I did have a good birthday weekend spent with friends and family. Kris surprised me on Saturday night with a birthday dinner at Blue Fish. We had planned on going there for dinner anyway, but I had NO idea that 15 of our friends and family would be there too! Kris planned it all on his own...evite and all! Sadly I have no pictures from the night because I left my phone at home and that's what I use these days for the majority of my picture taking. ):

My precious grandma...

My sweet Grandma Rie is one of the strongest people I know. She has always lived close to me so I have had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with her over the years. She recently fell and broke her hip on Thanksgiving and she has just bounced back quicker than you would ever think a 91 yo women could. I love her dearly and I just wanted to share a few photos of her!

With the Bride & Groom:

She didn't get to go to Mexico, so we brought her along to our "legal" wedding ceremony in Denton.

Laughing at me I'm sure:

This was at our TX reception...she was just so glad to be able to share with us.

 One of the loves of her life:

Her one and only Great-Grandchild, Will, waited (and begged) for a great-grandchild!!

Her Pride & Joy:

Rie w/ Little Will a few days after her hip surgery. This is his way of smiling (so cute)!

Teams to remember play in December!

It's December and we are still playing football!! Which means we are headed to the Final Four on Saturday and just 1 game away from the State Finals!!! We are all very excited about this...

if you remember once upon a time I was a cheerleader at Ryan and we won state also!!

Slivocka Christmas

This month has been so busy and I have started several blogs and haven't finished them because I was too busy! Now most of them are super past due so I just decided to skip them all together. Some how in the midst of my busy schedule I did manage to decorate the house for Christmas, because having my house decorated makes me HAPPY!

Here is Gromit posing by the tree, this was about the 4th try so he was OVER IT!

Laia and Gromit's Stockings are hanging by the tree!

 The whole living room scene...I love Christmas trees! Kris and I decided we are going to make it a tradition to fill eachother's stockings, or at least it will be our tradition until we have kids who care about stockings. I am super excited about this, because that was always my favorite part as a child.

I didn't get any pictures of the outside of the house because well it's been Freezing lately at night when I get home.

Playoffs: Round 1

This past Saturday Kris' Dad and I drove to Wichita Falls for the 1st round of the playoffs. It was a blow-out and the other team probably shouldn't have been aloud in the playoffs, but that's how they have the brackets laid out so we got through Round 1 with ease.

One thing Kris really doesn't like to do is take pictures...but I made him do it! This was about the 4th try since Kris' Dad was not too savy with my phone and Coach Flo was standing behind him making us laugh, so needless to say Kris was not really into this one!

We're flyin to good ole' Midland, Texas this Saturday for Round 2 against an El Paso team...and if (when) we win we will get to play the remaining rounds at Cowboys Stadium!!! (Excited?? Yes!)

Camels..

So I've been meaning to post a blog all week and it's taken me until today to do it.

Pretty much for the whole football season I either have a game on Friday's or I'm by myself because Kris is scouting, so this last Friday instead of going out and spending time with friends...I FINALLY watched Sex and the City 2! I'm A HUGE SATC fan, so the fact that I never saw this one in the theater was already unusual, so I just couldn't wait until it was on Netflix and had to go rent it at Blockbuster. I had heard it was less than mediocre and not as good as the 1st, and for the most part that's correct. I enjoyed it, because I'm a fan, and that's as good as it gets. I did find it quite hilarious that they ride camels in Abu Dhabi and I have a camel right down the street.


I live in a development, but it's pretty much in the country. We have cows, horses, goats, sheep...right by our house, but who'd of thought one of our close neighbors would get a camel!?!

I've been trying to take a picture of this thing for over a week, but it was always too far away for my camera phone, but this week he/she was eating close to the road so I snapped a photo quick! (this is for you Britt!)

SAFE...The movie premiere

If you know the Hayhurst family then you will not be surprised by what I am about to tell you. Kris and I attended a movie premiere for their first film last night a independant film written and directed by the Hayhurst Family, titles SAFE. My best friend Lindsay who is married to one of the many Hayhurst brother's invited us to go to his movie premiere last night at the Angelica in Plano. When the Hayhurst name is on something you never know what to expect so we were very skeptical going into it, but man were we pleasantly surprised at how good this film was. The purpose of the premiere was to get feedback from close friends and family before they submit it to big time film festivals. It really was a great short film (alittle over an hour) with a very good story line, real actors/actresses, and great background music. It left me wanting more, which you would normally not hear me say for a suspense movie. I am excited to see where this will lead those boys, and I am happy we got to be a part of it! Here are a few photos from the night.

Kyle, Kris, and Dudley Daniel Hayhurst (aka the Director) and Linz Me and Linz Daniel and Seth introducing the movie
Q & A w/ the director, writer, and actor/actress