Welcome 2009!

First of all, on New Year's Eve I searched high and low for some party favors, noise makers, and hats for midnight. Perhaps it was because I was looking on the New Year's Eve, but I could not find any party favors ANYWHERE!! It was so frustrating. It seems that nobody celebrates the New Year anymore!

So anyway, for New Year's Eve, we first had dinner and played Skip-Bo with the Syners! Andrew and I then partied at Callie's house with Marcy, Rachael, Holly, Taylor, Tiffany, Olivia (kinda). We played a few hilarious rounds of Catchphrase and Callie's creative New Year's resolution game! After midnight, we hopped to another party to see Andrea, Nikki, and Travis.

Odessa Adventure

On our way back to Utah we spent a couple days in Odessa with friends and family. Betsy had never been to Odessa before, so of course we took her and Andrew to all the essential historical sights Odessa has to offer. These included Ratliff Stadium, Stonehenge, Permian High School and of course, Rosas!

Downtown Corpus Christi

The siblings went on an adventure around downtown Corpus. Of course we had to show Andrew and Betsy the famous Selina statue, the Nina (Christopher Columbus' favorite of the three ships), and ate fresh seafood at Joe's.
This was all good and fun, but the most eventful instance happened on our way to the restaurant. Tom was driving through a flock of seagulls and ran over a bird! *Worthy to note that the birds were flocked in one big group because there were people feeding them bread on the sidewalk* So we went inside to eat and came back out to find all of the seagulls swarming around the car. Turns out one of the angry bird feeders had placed a piece of bread on the back windshield of the car. The birds were attacking anyone who tried to enter the car! These are pictures of us running away from the angry seagulls!

The Beach!

One of the perks of spending Christmas in Texas, is that the average temperature while we were there was about 70 degrees. So of course we went to the beach! We collected shells, played with a free skim board, and built creations in the sand!

Christmas Morning

Because Allison, Ari and Tom did not arrive in Corpus until Christmas, we celebrated Christmas morning on the 26th. We set our stockings out on the porch waiting for Santa to come. Then we opened our Christmas presents inside. This year I had my mom for secret Santa and she had me! I made her an apron and bought her a Dr. Oz book she wanted. She gave me money for my iPod fund. The babies had so many presents to open and probably played with every gift before the break was over.