Tuesdays Tunes ~ Stand Together

Amazing song!

Moving!

Thought provoking!

True!

T Day Recap

My brother, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, nephew-in-law and great nephew traveled over from California to spend the holiday with us.

We celebrated the day at my parents home.

My parents were thrilled to meet their first great-grandchild!

Our son was able to join us as well. He usually ends up working most holidays.

There was lots of visiting throughout the day!

And the cousins played countless hours of pool games out in the garage. (which I failed to get photos of!)

Meet baby E!

He is Adorable and such a sweet little guy!

 I think my brother is rather smitten with his new Grandson!

I loved E's little turkey day outfit!

 There was lots of cooking going on in the kitchen!

My brother cooked most of the meal with my mom and I helping out!

 He grilled the turkey on his Weber BBQ that he brought with him!

It was out of this world good!

He also made stuffed Pablano peppers....Oh my heavens were they ever yummy!

 E wearing his great-uncle's cowboy hat!

I could have held him all day!

 Great Grandma, Granddaughter and Great Grandson!

 Pie! There was pear, pecan and pumpkin pie! Yum!

 One very well behaved dog!

She wasn't sure what to make of the baby!

She kept her distance and pretty much ignored most of the goings-on of the day.

Our day was filled with fun, laughter, good food and family!

Sunday ~ Catch-Up

I'll keep it short cause I wouldn't want to put anyone to sleep with the boringness of this post.

I'm pretty sure that boringness is not a word, but I don't care!

I'm using the husband's computer...I hate the keyboard on it!

It's off center and I end up typing words all wrong....Hate it!

Work is still keeping me within its busy grasp!

Usually this time of year is rather quiet and slow, but I don't see that as being the case for some time to come yet!

I got hit with an unexpected letter on Friday evening, which made me Flip Out!

The person before me didn't follow through with setting up several committees that are important to the running of our programming not only at the county level, but the state and national level! I'm just now finding out what the repercussions are and what will happen if I don't get on this ASAP and fix the situation!

My boss was already gone when the memo came in, but I can almost bet he is going to have a Major Melt Down on Monday when he sees it!

Okay...moving on.

My camera has been riding around in the car with me, but I haven't taken many photos in the past few weeks. So when I put my SD card in the computer this morning I was surprised to find these images.

I had taken them and forgot about them!

The photo below was taken just after deer season closed in our valley in early November.

I was on my way to work and this buck walked right out in front of me to cross the road.

I had to scramble to find my camera and ended up grabbing my point and shoot out of my purse.

I was please to see that I got a pretty good shot of him walking away from me.

I just noticed in the background of this photo there was a herd of deer moving off in the distance.

I didn't see them that morning, but he was headed to join them.

 We have had several snow storms blow through over the past few weeks!

Friday evenings was the worst by far!

By the time we left town to head home after work, you couldn't see a thing for all of the blowing snow!

It was pitch black out and the snow was blowing sideways!

Countrychick was with me and she knew my stress level was going through the roof!

I HATE driving in snow and driving in it at night is HORRIBLE!

The roads were TERRIBLE! People were spun out all over the place and many of them were off the road in the ditch! I might or might not have had a minor panic attack...and I damn well know I forgot to breathe several times!

We finally made it home safe and sound!

I won't ever drive in conditions like that again! 

The photo below was taken two weeks ago on a Saturday evening.

The moon was full and the mountains were dusted with a powder sugar topping!

 One thing I really like about the weekends....

The warm, cozy fires in the fire place!

A cozy fire is a nice stress buster for sure!

And a glass of wine really helps too!

Up To My

EYEBALLS IN WORK!

Things have been busy...and I mean crazy busy at work!

I just wrapped up my year-end awards banquet last week, which the planning of consumed much of my time in October.

I thought for sure things would quiet down a bit in November.

But no...one thing wraps up and I get SMACKED with something else!

So this is my new stress reduction program....

I'll let you know how it works out!

The Countdown

Only 16 days, 8 hours and 21 minutes left until...

(as of this very moment)

Part 1

But who's really counting anyways...

ME! (that's who)