Out With the Girls

Hey y'all,
here is a pic of tami, myself and lydia out to dinner tonight at Luna's. Thank you joi for being the first person to recommend that place to me - i knew from that point on that i would love it - as soon as i could find it that is. they moved after the hurricane and it wasn't until a couple of months ago that i finally tried it out:)

It was so fun to get dressed up and really go out on a Saturday night! Okay, so obviously i'm writing this the night of and therefore hold no disillusions about how pathetically early we returned to the ships - but regardless of that - it was a great time!

plus, i found a really sweet pair of black heeled knee-high boots on the give-away table today! yay! (sorry, no pics of the boots are available yet)
Linds

Rock Star - Iowa Style

I feel famous. Not me personally i guess, but as an Iowan i now feel very famous. it started last thursday when i was visiting my sister in Des Moines and i clicked on the TV and saw a live airing of Nighline - right there in downtown Des Moines! that ain't no small thing! it's not everyday my beautiful state makes it onto national news. Go Iowa Caucus!

Now today, as i was creating the most awesome salad ever (yep Kip - you've got some competition now!) i turned on the show modern marvels and what do i see?! that's right! Iowa! the oh so famous World's Largest Truckstop. almost the 8th wonder of the world, and here i drive past it every time i'm home without a second thought! i'm just THAT famous i guess :)

Happy New Years from Sigourney Iowa!

I was able to visit with Kristin and Jim for a few days around New Years. They're living in Podunk - oops, i mean Sigourney, Iowa :) Kristin and I enjoyed an afternoon walking through the snow drifts as she showed me around. It's such a quaint town - we even stopped at her neighbors house to buy some farm fresh eggs!

Christmas 2007

Here are some pics of the fam - okay, so most of them are just karsen. what can i say? she's cute!!


Karsen's able to walk with help now and we all had the chance to walk laps through my mom's house with her. she would get so excited to be walking she squeeked :)


here's a pic of my gramps and karsen wearing their matching christmas gifts from me. gramps has played the part of scrooge every Christmas since i can remember. i can still hear his teasing "nope, we're not having Christmas this year lindser" or just good 'ole "bah - humbug!" this thanksgiving he was waving money in 9month old Karsen's face trying to get her to say 'Christmas sucks'. It didn't work. Mostly because Karsen can't talk yet.

so, this year i made karsen a shirt with those words on it and then made gramps a matching red apron for his workshop. it was a hit :)

The Making of Frostella

Jess and I had some fun playing in the snow during her visit.


Unfortunately, Payton thought that Frostella's arms looked like the perfect opportunity to start a game of catch.


Here she is - Frostella! With tent pegs for eyes, a baby carrot for a nose and a scrap of plastic conduit for a mouth she is a very special snowwoman :)