an update with photos

Well, it's been awhile since I last blogged, but it's been busy for sure. I'll pick up where I left off...

I went to San Francisco for a conference at the beginning of November. We had a really good time!!










The Golden Gate Bridge from "Dave's spot."










A small market at the top of Nob Hill.










Ben Lee in concert










Hangin' with Kat and eating icecream that should be served with an insulin shot.

The next week, we had one of our first Young Adult Ministries functions at the bowling alley. It was first suggested that we have a 70s night bowling, but I reminded them that none of us really remember the 70s and it would be more appropriate to have an 80s bowling night. So we did!! It was a lot of fun!









Just some of the crew bein' silly. As you can see, some people decided not to dress up...









Karen was going for the whole "Dazed and Confused" look.

A few weeks later, I attended the area meet for our special olympics bowling team in Conroe. As always, we had a blast!! The kids got their medals, we ate lunch, and headed home. As usual, I tried to sleep because I was just totally wiped out.













Note the multiple seat belts just in case of an abrupt stop..


That same night, I went to a super fun party with some of my soccer team friends (the one I play on, not the one I coach). Sorry, no pictures there. And I also attended the saddest Aggie soccer game ever. It was the second round of the NCAA playoffs and we played UT for the third time this season. If my foreshadowing didn't give you the result, we lost and got kicked out of the playoffs. It sucked. Especially since Texas got knocked out the next round. Grrr... However, a fun day/night overall.

Later in the month, along with the rest of this nation, I celebrated Thanksgiving. It was really just nice to have a holiday from work!!! We had brunch with Mom, dinner with Dad and then we watched BloodDiamond. I think I just wasn't in the mood to watch that after Thanksgiving dinner.... I think I would have rather watched football.. again. :oP

The holiday didn't last nearly as long as I wanted to though. Monday, after school we started soccer tryouts. As much as I look forward to soccer season, I almost dread tryouts. It's just long hours and mentally tiring! That lasted all week, and finally on Thursday, we were finished with tryouts!! Which meant that Friday, I got to go home at the normal time... Which I guess at this point in the year, is no longer the normal time... Sigh... ;-) But that's okay! Friday night was relaxing and well deserved after my full week.

Today was probably one of the best new things I've done in a long time!! Julie emailed me, among others, and invited us out to celebrate Wesley's birthday today to Soggybottom ATV Ranch. We had SO much fun. I've always been hesitant to ride 4-wheelers and such because of some friends' past experiences and just hearing scary stories about 4-wheeling gone bad, but today those concerns were alleviated!








the crew after we all had ridden once or twice (look at our pants!!)

so there was a lot of mud out there...

Overall, November was pretty great. And December looks promising too. ;) Kat is coming to town this next weekend and Wendy and Ginger might make a trip down, too! I just love visitors! :)

(Yes, I left out the guitar hero/christmas cookie/ornament party we had the other night, but I don't have any pictures from it, so I couldn't include it... but it was fun, and if you weren't there, you missed out.) :o)