i am blessed.

Rachael Lampa anyone?

Well, it's been awhile and much has happened. Libby got married. The Thomas' got married. Then there was Halloween. Then Thanksgiving in Atlanta came around and no Thanksgiving is complete without pneumonia, a cornea transplant, a 21st birthday and kidney stones. Then we went to the valley for Nicholas and Megan's stock the bar shower. We stocked ourselves with pan de polvo, mexican vanilla, grapefruit and honey sticks.

Which brings us here to the weekend of fun. We had a nonstop packed weekend. Luckily it was all spent with many people we love!

Friday night we were at the Thomas' for a tacky sweater/white elephant party! We didn't have tacky sweaters but we did have one antlered headbands. The gift of the night was the shake weight. The Barretts ended up with it. I'm really glad they did. I ended up with a bonsai tree and Andrew ended up with the gift he brought....a kids mini tool set. Ya...I think he just left it at the Thomas' house...

Here are a few amazing pics from the night.



On Saturday, Emily O played in a volleyball tourney in Houston with her club team so we drove on downtown to watch them win 2 games. She's pretty awesome. So is her sister Leanne.



Later that night we met the Barretts, the Derians, and the Thomases for a birthday/going away party celebration at Lupe Tortilla. We are very blessed to have them all as friends! The Derians are moving to Dallas and we are going to miss them VERY much!!!


Sunday morning we crashed our old Sunday School class for their cookie exchange. We came home with way to many cookies. That afternoon we went to the E-2 shower for John and Nikki. It was fun to see our E2 family...there is never a dull moment.

Then we had one last party for the weekend!!! Our bible study Christmas party complete with a fabulous dinner and white elephant gift exchange. Again. We are beyond blessed with a great group of friends. When we first moved to Houston we were lacking in the friend dept. Well not totally...just in Houston. I prayed and prayed for friends and now we have an abundance! It is so cool to have new friends that Andrew and I can call "our" friends instead of either his or mine.

the night started to look good..and this got stolen


Good ole Francis


this got stolen too...along with 3 other gifts..


The Emily was very excited about her beer.

white elephant goodies.