great weekend

i had a fun-filled weekend, but unfortunately i have few pictures to prove it!!!

friday night daryl and i went to the voice of the martyrs christmas dinner. they are a christian organization that send care packages to christians all over the world. the boys stayed with e.d. and susan and helped them decorate for christmas. they had quite an operation going....e.d. put the hooks on while the boys hung the ornaments on the tree!

saturday we went to best buy to replace our camera that went for a dunk in daryl's sweet tea a couple of weeks ago. my new camera (and yes, it's all mine. i was told it was my birthday present!) is almost identical to the other camera. i tested it out at lunch on colby's pizza sculpture, but you can't see the picture.

that night our church participated in the bartlesville christmas parade. this was a first for adams blvd. church of christ. as we were walking to the parking lot where our float was waiting, santa claus was standing by the gate welcoming all the participants! i stopped and asked him if i could take my picture with him, and he said,"of course!" i got an adorable one-armed photo of the two of us, but you can't see that one either. {i also told him that i wanted a buyer for my house in broken arrow for christmas.}

i also took a lot of cute pictures of all of us on the float, especially of the varmints and me. there was also a "little person" dressed as an elf on the float next to ours. he was awesome!!! he was dancing and doing flips and singing! colby kept pointing and saying, "mom!!! look at the elf!" i took his picture as well, but you're not going to see that one either.

right as the parade was about to pull out, i took the camera from my coat pocket and turned it on to take some more pictures. but when i looked at the screen, it was all messed up! i turned it on and off thinking it was just cold or something, but nothing changed!

i was bummed, but at least i had a few pictures already saved on the card.........wrong! i put in the card reader, and nothing would load! my other sd cards worked just fine, but not the new one!

daryl took the camera back to best buy today {thank goodness we bought the extended warranty!} and they said it had taken a blow of some sort! what??? the guy said those cameras are extremely fragile, and the slightest bump can totally screw it up! he also said that when it got hit, that it shorted out and fried the sd card. that's why i have no pictures to show you.

except.........i have a few pictures of today's adventure with spencer. {i took them with our old, old camera.} someone gave us two tickets to Handel's Messiah, so spencer and i went to that performance at 2:00 this afternoon. this was a first for both of us, so we didn't know what to expect. the orchestra music was amazing.....i could have listened to that music all day, but i didn't care much for the chorus. i found that strange because i was a choir nerd in jr. high and high school. i could tell that spencer was bored, so we left at half-time {aka intermission} and went christmas shopping! the best part of the day was when spencer told me he had fun with me today! priceless...

quote of the day: "i had fun today." ~spencer