Getting a Christmas picture and my 30 birthday

Well, for the last couple of days, we have been trying to catch a good shot of Ly in front of our Christmas tree.  Not surprisingly, she has been very squirmy when trying to do so, and often the picture doesn't come out well.

We are hoping that her pictures with Santa that we took her to over a week ago will show up at the daycare tomorrow.  We plan to use those to make a Christmas card to send out to family and friends.

Here are a few that we tried for:

We also celebrated my 30th birthday on Saturday!  We first went to IHOP for breakfast (my favorite local breakfast restaurant!).  Then we went to Wal-Mart and met up with Alyssa Gomez and student council!  The students shopped for vaious items for needy families.  We ran a big drive at our school 2 weeks ago and raised $1200!  We only ended up spending $1044 at Wal-mart!  We were a little under budget, and that's great!  Then I met Lauren Hounshell at the church that we are having our choir concert Tuesday.  Then, Shannon and I came home so Lylah could take a nap and we could relax a little bit.  Finally, the babysitter showed up!  We went out to JCPenny and I got a coat and new shirt for Tuesday's concert!  I also got brand new shoes.  I know I'm going to feel spiffy Tuesday!  After that, we went to the Capital Grill, downtown Houston.  It was about the same caliber and quality as a Ruth Chris' steakhouse.  I had a Kona 14 oz., bone in ribeye.  It was a thick steak coated with decaf Kona coffee mix.  It was a great steak!  I would have never thought to have put coffee onto a steak and cook it!?!?! Strange!  But it worked out just fine!  I was happy to celebrate my birthday with Shannon and have a nice date night out for ourselves!  Thanks babe!

The shoes I got looked a lot like the one above.  Although mine came with laces.  It does have the sleek black shine like these have though!