Love Actually is All Around Us

I love you all that posted happy birthday wishes, or sent emails or called. The calls came in Friday morning literally the moment I got up, I picked up my phone and it started ringing- It was Alan Meadows, one of those friends that it just seems silly to call a best friend because they are so much more than that. Then the calls and emails and birthday cards kept coming.

It was a wonderful birthday that only had a couple of snafu's, but we won't dwell on that.

Friday night we had a work Christmas party. Everyone gathered at my bosses house and I was surprised at how laid back everyone was. I am new to the team and apparently everyone else on the team has been to my bosses house more than once and everyone seemed to feel right at home. The party was enjoyable, but I will make one little comment- Don't break out Cranium at a Christmas party even when people have asked you to bring it and explain it and play it. Cranium with co-workers of varying ages is not the same as playing it with a group of close friends. There was one funny moment though during the game when two people had to act out changing a diaper without saying anything- Hilarious.

Saturday we drove up to Duncan, Oklahoma where my grandmother lives. I have an amazing grandmother who has always been a cool hip grandmother. She didn't bake cookies, or where granny clothes, she rarely talked like a grandma either, no, my grandmother is one of those grandmothers you could go to if you woke up and found out that you had gotten your girlfriend pregnant, or that maybe you got caught with a nickel bag of weed and you were in the slammer- yes, she would come and bail you out. Grandma has slowed down now that she is 80, but I remember she used to drive down and see us quite a bit, just hop in the car an go.

The Christmas party this year was held in a church gymnasium. One of those new churches that really tries to cater to the youth. A full kitchen, a game room complete with 2 Play Stations, 2 XBOX's, air hocky, ping pong, and a pool table. Church is now about having fun while getting to know God. So this year instead of being cramped in a house for Christmas we had all this room and all these tables and tons of food to eat and game to play. It was NON-STOP FUN!

In all of my 29 years I have never had this much fun at a family gathering with my Oklahoma relatives. I didn't want to leave on Saturday, I wanted to play more games, I wanted to eat more food, I wanted to spend more time with my Grandma. It was awesome, the slide show that I made went great, it was a good day.

All in all it was a great birthday and a great weekend.

Thanks Katie, Jes, Rebekah, Cody and TwistedUterus (I don't have your website :( ...) for the online birthday wishes!

Thanks to my wonderful family and friends for the great gifts, I got everything that I wanted - Love Actually and Elf on DVD- New Balance running shoes, a shower radio, candles, money, gift cards to Best Buy! Am I blessed or what!?!

I love you all!