We had a rockin New Year's Eve party for 2. To start our Southern celebration, we ate Texas BBQ as our last meal of the year, compliments of Rudy's. Then we wheeled over to Discovery Green park to check out the exhibits, ice skating rink, and air balloon. We watched a movie at home until the big countdown then ran outside...and it was silent. Bummer. 
The Scherbel Chateau is officially under new management. The house sold yesterday so Steve and I spent a majority of Christmas break helping my parents pack things up and move out (sorry to all my friends for not visiting!). Before there was a house, it was "the lot" that we tended as a family. Building the house in 2004-ish was our biggest family project to date.
Favorite memories during the building phase include: endless fast food meals on the dusty floor; decorating a Christmas tree with used sandpaper rounds and work gloves; making stained glass windows with my mom to country songs about drinking; sanding, sanding, sanding; watching my sisters yell "we're fighting!" and wrestle over who got to pick the church music one rare working Sunday; seeing various boyfriends/girlfriends come help as a "test"; landscaping the backyard with my brother; and pulling my first and only all-nighter to help my dad finish some woodwork.
It's sad to see the house go, but we look forward to having adventures in the new place when we come to visit in the future.
Us girls are obsessed with matching in our family. This year, I made all five of us matching pajama bottoms (with pockets!) for the traditional Christmas morning photo shoot. We didn't get a picture with all of us in the PJ's...but we did get a cozy shot of us all in our Christmas Snuggies!
I love finding a captive photography "victim" to experiment on. I also love using tips from Napolean Dynamite e.g. "make a fist...slowly ease it up underneath your chin...."
