Downer Girl Pics

My mom took some pictures this weekend with my sister Diana in town. We took some of all of us Downer girls - all 6 of us. Then we took a few of just us older girls. The first pic, left to right, is Diana, Bonnie, Tina, me, Clara Anne, and Daisy.

And here is Diana, Tina, and me.

Christmas Cards

I am getting ready to send out my Christmas Cards and I need a lot of addresses! If ANYONE would please e-mail me their address I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks! debrac28@gmail.com OR debrac28@yahoo.com.

Dance Class, Haircut, Twilight and Wall-E

Random enough? Just thought I'd jot down a few things about some recent events.

So I signed Natalie up for a dance class at the Silver Spring Rec Center a few weeks ago. It was a last minute thing - she had been dancing around all over the house for about a week and I decided to put her in a dance class to see if she liked it. Her class is on Mondays and it runs for 6 weeks. This upcoming Monday will be her 4th class and she is doing very well (as far as I can tell). She really loves going and seems to get along really great with the other kids. There is one boy in the class and I did notice last week that when they were getting in line to do one of their exercies, she was asking where the boy was so she could stand next to him. Ugh. She is a very friendly girl and I love how well she socializes with other children. Hopefully this will be a great experience that she will remember years to come.

Then I got bored a week or so ago and chopped off my hair. I had been thinking about it for a while but didn't know if I really wanted to cut it again. When my hair starts getting long it gets harder and harder for me to get the motivation to actually style my hair every day. I wind up throwing it in some dumb pony-tail because I don't feel like spending an hour in the bathroom blowing it dry and straightening it. My sister Tina just chopped of her hair (but she REALLY chopped hers off!) so it gave me the strength to do it. And boy am I glad I did! I really, really love it. I don't have a picture yet because I'm not a huge fan of taking pictures of myself. But I'll get one up soon. I'll post a picture that we just took for our Christmas cards - it was right before I cut it.

I am also a huge fan of Twilight. It was quite a while back when my sister-in-law Leigh Ann tried to get me to read it. She kept bugging me and bugging me and I wasn't really interested. I'm a huge science fiction fan but vampires just didn't seem to intruige me. So she finally just gave me the book so I started reading it one night. Well I finished the book in 8 hours and read New Moon and Eclipse the next few days. But I had to wait for Breaking Dawn to come out. So of course I pre-ordered it and read it the day I got it. I'm not overly obsessed with any of the characters...I just think Stephenie Meyer is an excellent writer. I just got so involved when I started reading and couldn't stop. I love books that just capture all my attention and get me so involved. I went to see the movie on Thursday night (which was probably a mistake) and was not really suprised. The movie followed the book fairly well but did have it's own parts that weren't in the book. Some of the scenes I was hoping they would have done a little better but I really wasn't expecting much when I went to see it so I really wasn't disappointed. I did like the little cameo that Stephenie made. But I really, really, really could have done without the giggling and cheering little girls that made it difficult for me to enjoy those scenes that were supposed to be touching or sentimental. But that was my fault for going to the very first screening. Live and learn, I guess.

I also saw Wall-E at my sister's house for the first time. I had heard that it wasn't all that great. I must say that I think it is my favorite Disney movie! I absolutely loved it! I thought it was so cute and so funny - I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like that movie. My kids had seen it the day before at her house and apparently they loved it too. They have been asking to see it for quite a while now. So I guess I'll have to buy it for me, oh I mean them, for Christmas.

I know this has been quite random, but sometimes I realize that there has been a lot going on and I want to get some of it down or else I never will. I will post some pictures in the next few days as well - I always LOVE looking at people's blogs when they put pictures up. So yeah that's it. If you've made it this far, thanks...you must really like me!

Crazy 8 Tag

Thanks Caroline...I don't think I've been tagged before, maybe, but I guess I can do one as well.

8 TV shows I watch

1. The Office
2. Heroes
3. CSI (Las Vegas)
4. Burn Notice
5. NCIS
6. Anything on Discovery Channel
7. Anything on Food Network
8. Anything on Disney Channel


8 Restaurants I like

1. Chevy's
2. Chilies
3. Applebees
4. Olive Garden
5. The Original Pancake House
6. In-N-Out
7. Taco Bell
8. Denny's


8 things that happened yesterday

1. Went to see Twilight
2. Went Christmas shopping
3. Bought a Christmas Tree
4. Decorated said tree with the kids (no I did not put the kids on the tree, rather they helped me and Andy decorate it)
5. Went out to dinner with my husband, sister Daisy, and her husband Mike
6. Saw Wall-E for the first time
7. Just about had a heart attack when the TV in my bedroom blew up
8. Fell asleep watching TV on my husbands laptop (in bed) as a result of said broken TV


8 things I look forward to

1. Thanksgiving with the Downer family
2. My sister Diana coming to town to visit for Thanksgiving!
3. Seeing Diana's new baby Jessica
4. Going to Wisconsin to visit Andy's family for Christmas
5. Being done with Christmas shopping
6. Going to Natalie's dance class on Monday
7. The new season of Burn Notice starting in January
8. Getting a new TV


8 things on my wish list
1. Books 5 & 6 of The Great and Terrible series by Chris Stewart
2. The new Nickelback CD
3. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
4. New Lord of the Rings DVD's (dang kids)
5. The Office DVD's
6. Dustbuster
7. A new toaster
8. A trillion dollars


8 People I tag

Yeah, I'd rather not.