Dr. Phil Show Was Great Success!

Today Lindy, Sherri, Amy, Karly and myself all went to the Dr. Phil show. Originally we thought we were going to the Holiday Giveaway show because Lindy's sorority got invited to go to Robin's Annual giveaway show. Of course, around this time of year, we assumed it meant the holiday show so we were really excited to get tons of goodies for free. However, we soon came to realize that the holiday show was being aired today so of course we wouldn't be going to the taping since it was already airing. We still wanted to go, though, just to be in the audience of the Dr. Phil show. As we arrive we really didn't even notice that there were only women in the whole audience. Well, it turned out that Robin, Dr. Phil's wife, has written a book and the whole show was about stuff she had written and the beauty products that she uses. We ended up getting tons of stuff that she likes and we were really excited!

It was a great show and Dr. Phil's daughter-in-law was actually sitting in the row right in front of us and right in front of Amy. We got a blow dryer, a hair straightener, round brushes, a 24k gold eyelash curler, fancy skin care stuff. It was great! We had a great time and we got Robin's book too! So thanks Dr. Phil and Robin ... it was really a great time :)

Christmas is Coming

Well it's that time of year again and Christmas is coming, whether you are ready or not! Last year I had almost all my Christmas shopping done in October because I didn't want to have to worry about it at the last minute, and plus that way I figured I would have spent my budget on gifts that month and then be done with it. However, it seemed that I just kept buying stuff last year and the piles grew larger, which was good for everyone else but bad for me :) Even though I knew I had bought enough, I kept seeing things that I should buy for people and so I did. This year I didn't buy anything until like last week and I think I'm doing pretty good! Kevin got a lot of stuff this year, what with the Porsche, a big new TV and of course we already bought the honeymoon, so I don't really have to worry about getting him something. For our family we're just drawing names and the limit this year is low so no one is spending too much. It just seems that this year Christmas came so much quicker right after Thanksgiving so there wasn't as much time to worry about gifts.

Kevin and I organized our save the date cards today and then created a new blog - jenniferandkevinwedding.blogspot.com to post new things about the wedding and upcoming events. Plus that's where we can put our registry and inform our guests about the wedding. As of today there are 146 more days until the wedding - crazy! Erik, our wedding photographer, also sent me a disc with all our engagement photos from the session he took and also the trash the dress pictures that Lindy and I took. I think Lindy and I should be professional models, but that's just my opinion. Here's some fun pictures for everyone to see and enjoy! :)

Thanksgiving - Early December

Hello everyone,

Well December is here and I had hoped it would be a great month, especially, considering that November was a loooong month due to the novel I was writing in nanowrimo - aka National Novel Writing Month - and how busy that kept me. We also had tons of people visit, Lindy visited like three times, mom and dad visited twice - plus Matilda! And we had Thanksgiving here in the Dondo and it was really really fun.

I am so glad we had everyone down here and we even had some people from down the hall have Thanksgiving with us too - and we also watched as much college football as we could possibly handle. Supposedly in about two weeks we're going to the Dr. Phil show so we'll see about that!

Hope everyone's having a great holiday season out there - but we have had some sad times already. One of my really good friends, Bryan Marks, his mother passed away around Thanksgiving and that's just really hard because he is so close with his family and I can't imagine anyone losing their parent. Then I found out this morning that my neighbors, my Uncle Lewis has passed away and although he was older, it's always a sad thing. Also, there has been some turmoil regarding people I work with and I was just hoping that December was going to be an easy, great holiday season. So far it hasn't . . . but it's still early!

Let's hope the rest of the month is good!