Saturday, February 13

This morning, AT&T was supposed to come and install the mythical, wonderful, amazing thing known as U-Verse while I met some old friends from HS and A&M for breakfast at Spoons in Old Downtown McKinney. Well, of course the UVerse couldn't be installed (this has been ongoing drama in David's life) so he joined us! And I think he's glad he did, because now there's a SLIGHT SLIGHT chance we could get to go to the small basketball gathering going on at Cowboys Stadium tomorrow night. This is because my friend from HS and college, Shane, and his wife Cassandra, both work for the Boston Celtics and might have some extra tickets. Stay tuned to see if we get to go! And all I'm asking is.....

Will The Big Guy be there? :)

Friday, February 12

SNOW DAY!!!!
David and I both have the day off today because of the record snow we received yesterday. What did we do on our surprise day off? We slept in (David), watched a movie (Lauren), threw snowballs at the doggies (fun! you should try it!), AND made a snowman!

We think he's pretty cute! We're having a nice, relaxing day. We hope you are too!

Thursday, February 12

Happy New Year!!! I haven't blogged since Christmas! YIKES!

Today we are having a record snow- the most the DFW area has ever seen in one day! AMAZING! Here's what my students were looking at today instead of listening to me talk about the Prologue of Invisible Man:

After my last class 5th period, I decided to head home during my conference to avoid the rush hour traffic and worsening conditions. Here's what it looked like coming home:

Now, I know some of you who read this remember the decision we were facing this time last yearand the weather seriously reminded me of our trip to Michigan last year! CRAZY!!! We are loving it though, and praying for a snow day tomorrow!

Here's our cute house in the snow. I took this picture when I got home from work, around 3:30pm, and we still received steady snowfall until around midnight that night.

Friday, December 25

Christmas update!!! I didn't take any pictures during our Christmas morning gift extravaganza, but here are some pics I've taken during the break. Basically, they're all pretty silly. Be prepared!

Jingle Bell fun run with Mom, Dad, Caroline, David and myself. Afterwards, we gained back every calorie we burned at Fireside Pies. YUM!

This is the ten-year anniversary of Duke Wellington Ward joining the family. He's still got it!


Mom and Dad's new addition is finally finished! Mom got new outdoor furniture for her big Christmas gift. Here are Michael and Caroline enjoying it.


Dad's addition to the backyard these days is this tree troll. Mom hates it, Caroline and I think it's a riot, and I'm not sure what the rest of the family thinks. But Christmas Eve one of the troll's eyes went MISSING!!!! Dad accused Mom and Mike of stealing it, and again Caroline and I thought it was hysterical. Today, after all the snow melted, Dad went searching through the monkey grass (with Duke's ever-present guidance) and found the missing eye. Much to Mom's chagrin, of course. ;) Christmas Eve and Christmas day was a wonderful time spent with the family- EVERYONE was home and it was great to see all together. Tomorrow and Sunday we have more activities planned before the O'Neals go back down to Austin.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!

Sunday, December 13

The Hodum family Christmas tree! We got it up this afternoon with the help of Chewie and Sammy. Notice the lack of ornaments at the bottom- we have to keep breakable things out of the way of Chewie's tail and Sammy's mouth.

Saturday, December 12

Seriously, can you imagine living next to these people? I don't, but Melissa does! They had about six of these inflatable Christmas decorations last year, and they've multiplied this year like rabbits!!!

Wednesday, December 9

Hungry eyes.