ND Satcom's Christmas Party 2006

Amy and Chris Morris's Home. Every year we have the party at Matthias's bosses house(Chris). Everyone had a great time, especially my husband, and a few others.heehee. Good times had by all!!
Chris and Amy
Tim and Shannon

Tim and Cheryl
Amy and The Chef!! Great food!!
Matthias and I, we had to take this one a couple of times....figured out front view is best!!

What we need and want--The Elmo TMX

I've searched far and wide for this toy, with no luck. Online they go for about 100.00, retail is 40.00. I've been looking for about a month now and ask all of you out there(I never thought I'd be one of these people) if you see one, get it for me and I'll pay shipping and cost. I may have to wait after the holiday's and get it for a birthday present, but have a feeling we'll have the same problem. I refuse to pay the big bucks but would love to have one for Ava for Christmas!! Help a sister out!!!

Holiday Party at the Gaither's

They for sure have the best decorations I've seen this year!! Inside and Out!!!

Philip and Kena

Ava enjoying the little Christmas town...

We joined in on the holiday festivities at cousin's Philip and Kena's house this past weekend. Ton's of great food, fun people and holiday spirit!! All that was missing was my holiday cocktail..ahahahh, oh well my time will come!!

Happy Holidays Yall!!

Guess who????


How funny (and cute) is this Christmas picture....

Nice 70's Christmas Tree...I think I saw some like it in Garden Ridge. The Retro Tree must be making a come back!!!

Dixie Chicks in Dallas!!

All I can say is WOW!! The Dixie Chicks put on one hell of a show last night, they really are amazing musicians and their sound--PERFECT. Along with their rocking back up band they played for 2 hours to an almost sold out American Airlines Center. Natalie was the ring master for sure, while Marty and Emily just strutted around stage jammin on their many instruments but mostly the fiddle and banjo!! This was there last show of their 2006 tour. Kena and I had great tickets, 8th row and Jeff and Quay were back about 40 rows. Such a treat to see them live....Stacy, Kena kept commenting how glad she was you decided not to come-LOL....We'll do it next time around!! I know I called some of your phones....hope I did'nt wake you....

Yes thats a homemade sign....and YES I held it up the whole concert...

Quay, Jeff and I before the show.....(oh and by the way, Jeff's lost 65lbs in the last 6 months, he looks sooo great)..sorry I had to brag on him.........

Before the show!!

11 more weeks...yipeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Opening act--Peter Yorn, he's great!!

Opening song.......Lubbock or Leave it-I got alot of sign action here...

Emily!

Natalie and Martie

Cathi's 29th Birthday Party!!

Saturday night was my former boss from Pei Wei, Gary's wife Cathi's birthday---29 again,heehee!! We joined them and a few other's for a great dinner at Nicola's. Yummy Italian food!! Then it was off for some birthday cheesecake and drinks at their house afterwards....Happy Birthday Cathi!!!

Day Two in NYC-Sightseeing!!

I had plans to hook up with my good friends Lynn and Don, but that fell through last minute. So, I headed out on the town all alone(which turned out to be kinda nice). West on 51st Street past Park Ave, Fifth Ave to Madison Ave., I came to St. Patrick's Cathedral, did a quick tour and decided to stick around for mass at noon. This Cathedral is gorgeous!! Construction began in 1858 and wasn't completed until 1906, today it is the largest Catholic cathedral in the US. Mass was really nice and as usual refreshing. I was surprised at how many people were there, but then again this was a holiday feeling kind of day, the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting was that night. Bringing in 100,000 people just blocks from our hotel.

Lookin up!

Main Entrance

Views from the back

After mass I headed a block over to fifth ave. and into Rockefeller Center. This place is massive consisting of 18 buildings, the center is the GE building a 70-story art deco tower. Then all the shopping around and the outdoor skating rink, Radio City Music Hall, and the NBC Studios. I was all over this place!!

Next to the skating rink the Christmas Tree
This lady was jamming to Britney's Toxic...

This guy was rocking too....

Next time I'll be down there too...

Tree up against the GE Building

Back to our favorite deli for a afternoon treat and to the hotel for a little cat nap before Matthias and I went to dinner at another great restaurant, this time Italian. And a little more siteseeing.

With 100,000 people all around this is as close as we could get to the Tree...Same building as in the picture above--The GE building...

Merry Christmas Ya'll!!

On our walk back, Matthias spotted the German Flag flying outside a hotel, come to find out the German President had stayed there the night before...

Have I said yet?????
I Love NYC!!!!

Day One in NYC-David Letterman!!

Can I tell you how much I love NYC!! Its forsure my favorite city, of course Las Vegas being my favorite party city, but you can't beat the energy of NYC. Matthias had some business to attend to so I tagged along for the fun. Much Thanks to our DeeDee for coming in to take care of Ava Lou. We arrived Tues at noon, taxied to the hotel, checked in and found the best little pizza deli down the street. Then it was time to head on down to the Ed Sullivan Theater for the David Letterman Show. After standing in line for 2 minutes a girl came and asked us if we would like to pre-seat(another perk of being 7 1/2 months pregnant), ughhhh yeh. We made it into the show at around 4:20 and taping started at 5pm. Over 450 seats they have to fill, and we had some of the best--really there's not a bad seat in the house, but ours we're great. The energy of the show and the way they get you all fired up b-4 it even starts was really fun. They use all the audiences applause and laughter throughout the live taping so they really get you going
(back in the day this would have been a great job for me--Leading the crowd..lol)
Letterman was really funny and greeted us b-4 we started, that got everyone even more reved up. We had to retake two different times, which was really fun to watch Letterman redo his jokes, the sarcasm was thick both times...
And finally George Clooney made it out to greet us and do his interview. He looked great in his all black attire, and happy to talk about winning the People Magazines "Sexist Man of the Year" award for the second time....
By the time the show was over I was warn out!! We jetted back to the hotel met up with some others, had a great dinner down the street from the hotel and climbed into bed!!! That was our Day One in NYC!!

On our way to the show....

Ever time the firetrucks in NYC went by I got huge chill bumps...

We made it....

I had to include this one, this older gentleman had no idea how to work the camera...NICE thumb action, I guess you get what you ask for....

After the show..."These boots we're made for walking.."

The Sean Jean Empire is located across the street from the theater....He's everywhere

Did I say "I love NYC"????