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My 30th birthday was good. Celebrated by having dinner with my family, Cary, Tony, and Christine at Ninfa's.

Why does everyone think it's so funny to sing loudly to the birthday girl?



(I need a tan and a workout!)

This weekend Cary and I traveled to Lousiana for his friend's wedding. It was nice to see everyone, but I've learned (which I kinda had already had an idea) that I will never step foot in a casino with Cary again. Truth be told, he usually wins, but he plays ALL night and then sleeps all the next day. This does not go over well with me unless he has big winnings to share with me. ;-)

I haven't been on the computer in days since I've been gone, so I visited Mom's blog. She has a cool mosaic thing on there, so I copied her.

Here are the rules:
1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into FD's Mosaic Maker.
The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Debbie
2. What is your favourite food? Mexican food
3. What high school did you go to? Kingwood High
4. What is your favourite colour? tourquois
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Brandon Backe
6. Favorite drink? Beer
7. Dream vacation? Tropical beach
8. Favorite dessert? Cheesecake
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Wife and mommy
10. What do you love most in life? Family
11. One Word to describe you. Trusting
12. Your Flickr name. None

Making sure to give credit:

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8709142@N05/3147593008/">A Busy Bee For Debbie (shesnuckinfuts), 2. Best Mexican Food in Arizona, 3. Kingwood Mustangs at Sterling Rangers, Baytown, Texas 2006.10.24, 4. Turquoise dream, 5. Brandon Backe 1, 6. World Beer Caps, 7. beautiful tropical beach, 8. cheesecake for Lianna!, 9. my son gives me strength, 10. Snowmen family in TX, 11. Trust, 12. Time and Tide waits for none!©

V-day and an early B-day

Friday night some of us went out to dinner to celebrate my upcoming 30th. Cary is a little sneak and arranged for Magen and Mike to come in from Austin and surprise me! I have surprised Magen several times over the years, but never once did it cross my mind that she'd surprise me. I have a great boyfriend and awesome best friend!


Below are some of my friends that helped me celebrate. Small and simple this year!

Christine and Tony

Mike and Magen

Jason and Alison

Us

Saturday morning Magen and Mike left, so Cary and I had V-day to ourselves. Cary bought me a camera for my birthday, and we decided to head to our favorite park.






Cary likes to get a little too close to some of our "friends"



I'm fine with the ducks, but these nutria are a bit much for me. Cary has nicknamed them Nutie. In case you've never seen them before, nutria are huge water RATS!

V-day early

Today Mom brought me lunch (Taco Bell) and an early Valentine! She's so good to me. She made me a cute Valentine's Day album. Now I can put pictures in albums by category- my OCD kicking in and getting excited! ;-)

I think I've finished up another module for class. Yipee! I'm trying my best to stay ahead since we have such busy weekends coming up.

It finally rained here today. I've never really cared about not getting rain so much until now- our new lawn is not looking the best. Oh- speaking of the house.... I took Cary to Garden Ridge this weekend. That was an experience! He's never been before. We got several pictures and a rug for the living room! I'll try to remember to take pictures soon.

Here is a picture of me at work with my gift from Mom.

Pictures, as promised

Here is all of us (two of my male cousins are missing since they had to work, but the girls brought along dates). Two of Papa's siblings are sitting on each side of him.

This is Papa with his three children

Me and Cary

I can't believe it's already February!

Sigh... I'm tired.

We had a busy, but nice weekend. Friday I took off work, and Cary and I drove, and drove, and drove to see Brittany and family. Her baby boy is the cutest ever! He's so little and loves his Aunt Debbie Dangerous (that's Britt's name for me). We enjoyed our time there eating, laughing, and playing a new domino game, Train.

Saturday morning we woke up and drove to Tyler to celebrate Papa's 90th with the whole family! It was great to see everyone, and Cary and Kacee got to experience for a day or two what it's like to be a Richter grand kid. We are very blessed to have such a loving and fun family.

Sunday we woke up and drove some more. We got home, took a nap for half an hour, went to a Super Bowl party for the first half, and then came home so I could take a quiz. Whew! One long weekend.

I'll try to post pictures as I get them (I didn't take my camera... I think I need a new one for my b-day). Here is one of me and the lil' cutie pie:

Hit the ground running!

That's right, it's 11:00 on a Saturday night, and I'm doing graduate school work. Cary is at a friend's ranch this weekend, so I decided to use my time wisely. I had to go shopping and run errands before I could start working though. At about 5:00 tonight I began my assignments. I'm still not done, but have accomplished a lot. If I can stay on top of it, then hopefully I won't stress too much this last semester.
Next weekend we'll be in Tyler celebrating Papa's 90th birthday! A big year of birthdays for us Richters... Papa turns 90, I turn 30, and Mom turns, well, let's just say it's a big one too!

Hope

Regardless of who you voted for, today you could feel the hope, excitement, and over whelming joy at my school. The internet and projector were turned on early in my classroom this morning so that my kiddos could watch (and I could explain) what all was going on. Watching my minority students watch history happen brought tears to my eyes. Some of them seemed to understand, while others were just excited to eat lunch in the classroom instead of the cafeteria. (Our lunch time was smack in the middle of Obama being sworn in.) I know it's all politics, but today did give me hope.
I would have loved to be inside George W.'s and Laura's heads this morning. I can only think that as they boarded the helicopter, they were ready to get the hall outta of D.C. and back to TEXAS! I'll be interested as to where he puts his Presidential Library.
Gotta go watch the Neighborhood Ball- after all, I told my students to watch it tonight!
One last note- I can't believe Mariah Carey's boobs didn't fall or pop out of that dress while she sang Hero! Geez!