Merry Christmas Chili!

Chili received a new bed and toys! He loves to unwrap presents!

Gode Christmas

This year we had Christmas with Elizabeth family on Christmas night at our house. This year's most popular toy was Dora the Explorer! Hannah loves Dora!

Next year we will have a new nephew! Check out Elizabeth's brother's blog www.cakevideo.com/blog. He posted a great video of their announcement! Merry Christmas!

Lau and Wright Christmas

This year we had Christmas at Hank's Mom and Dad's in the morning and then with his Grandparents during lunch. We at enjoyed visiting with his family! We played Dirty Santa and ate lots of good food!

Stroud Christmas Parade!

I haven't went to Stroud's Christmas parade in several years. I still remember my Mom taking me when I was younger to see Santa and receive candy. I even remember actually being in the Christmas Parade when I was in pre-school! We sat on hay in a trailor which was being pulled by someone's truck. Ahh.. good times.

Well, this year, we had a reason to make the trip downtown to watch the parade. My Mom and her co-workers were participating! In addition, we also saw the Grinch and our friend John joining in the line of the parade.

Las Vegas!

We are finally home! This past week we went to Las Vegas for the Autodesk University 2006 Conference for Hank's work. We stayed at the Venetian Hotel & Casino . It was around the middle of the Strip. Hank flew out on Monday and I flew out on Tuesday. Unfortunately, mine wasn't a direct flights and had to change planes in Phoenix. The first flight was OK, but the pilot was in a hurry and had a rough landing. Everyone was pulled forward and had to push on the seat in front of them. When I got to Phoenix, my plane was CANCELLED, which was suppose to take me to Vegas. So, I had to take a later one. We did however make the best of it and found a Cinnabon Bakery and bought a cinnamn roll (I am now addicted, but there aren't any in Tulsa!).

Once we got to Vegas, the Shuttle Bus Driver was a crazy driver! He hopped curbs and was in and out of traffic. We finally arrived at the Venetian around 10pm. All week we took the Deuce Double Decker bus to get around while Hank was in class. The recording that it plays everytime someone gets off the bus still plays in my head, "Have fun, get out of the sun, ride the Deuce $2.00 one way, $5.00 all day." I did lots of sight seeing and took many pictures for my scrapbook. We even went to the Tao Nightclub where a few famous people have been spotted.

The weather was of course colder than usual! It stayed around the 40s everyday we were there. Everyone back home called us and informed us of the BLIZZARD that was going on in Stroud and to be prepare for delays coming home. Boy, were they right! Our flight home was delayed 2 hours on Friday. Once we did get into Tulsa, it was so bad that we weren't able to get our car at Hank's co-worker's house, so we had to stay in Tulsa Friday night. Hank's sister and brother-in-law picked us up Saturday morning. When we got home we had about 2 feet of snow to shovel through to get in our driveway! All, we can say now is that we are GLAD to finally be back home!

Check out all the snow! I took this off our back porch (it was the only surface that didn't have ice/snow for me to walk on!