Family Shmamily: December 2011

So what's happened in the last...oh yeah...two months...again!!! Well, a lot has happened!

A while back, Kelsey and Kayla came to visit us in Arkadelphia! They had a special reason for coming to visit, besides the fact that they wanted to see their most beautiful sister and drink in her wisdom of life. You see, once upon a time we went to Chicago to celebrate the "Year of the Kayla" and during our trip we went to a little place called Second City. It was awesome!!! Second City is a comedy club where a lot of SNL people and other comedians have gotten their start: Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, and more! Earlier this year Tyler discovered that Second City was touring and would be in Little Rock in October...so you know my sisters rearranged their schedules so we could all be together to celebrate Second City in Little Rock. We had such a good time...shout out sistas...love you Kelsey and Kayla!

Also, Thanksgiving happened! Also, Project 365 did NOT happen...boo...I can barely keep up with this stupid blog...what made me think I could take a picture every day for a year? So, I will resort to posting pictures with posts, and maybe occasionally I'll post some extras to the Flikr page. Don't get your hopes up though.

Don't be discouraged...I'm going to continue to write this post and at the end I'll add all the pictures. I hate trying to move the pictures around in the post and then they end up wanting to right align and then left align and all I really want is for them to stay centered. So pictures at the end (captioned of course) and text now!

Over Thanksgiving break, my lovely parents got us tickets for the fam to go see The Nutcracker ballet! We used to see it when we were kids every year around Christmas, and it was fun to get to go again. We also got to experience it in the new Dallas Winspear Opera House...those people wear some fancy pants (except for the girl there who was wearing skin colored leggins and looked like she was wearing NO pants!). Of course, when we got home there was talk of who could be the best ballerina, and after several attempts at spinning on one foot, jumping in the air, and me falling backwards into the wall...we decided that none of us would really make a good ballerina. We'll stick to playing games, drawing paint pictures, and...what other talents do we have...I guess that's all.

Another Thanksgiving happening was our Dinner Partay with the friends. We're all married and grown up now, so we decided to have a nice dinner altogether including paper bag vests and pilgrim hats so that half of us could dress up as Indians and the other half could dress up as Pilgrims. We used our given talent (as mentioned above) to play games and had so much fun being together and...yes...prank calling old friends. It's so fun to be an adult!

Tyler and I weren't home in Arkadelphia for very long before we headed back to Dallas to run in our very first Half Marathon!!! I was so nervous the morning of the race...4 times I went to the bathroom...and I hadn't had really anything to drink! I got rid of the nerves though, and Tyler and I survived...we even ran the entire race. So now we have a lovely 13.1 sticker (courtesy of Becca Woodall) on our car "Blitzen," who by the way is dressed for the holidays! That's right...REINDEER CAR!!! Tyler is really embarassed to drive our reindeer car, but I assure him that we are spreading holiday cheer. In fact when we were walking into church the other morning I heard a small child yell "OH MY GOSH!!! LOOK AT THAT CAR...IT'S A REINDEER!!!" That's right...we are so cool (even though Tyler is seriously trying to convince me that it is really uncool).

Other news...oh yeah...TYLER GOT ACCEPTED TO BAYLOR! So in our steps to graduate school this is where we stand:

Take the GRE - check
Apply - check
Get Accepted (Tyler) - check
Interview for a GA position (Tyler) - check
Round 1 phone interviews (Erin) -
Round 2 face-to-face interviews (Erin) -
Get Accepted (Erin) -
Find a place to live (both) -

So we have a little ways to go before the Ellis family fully commits to graduate school. The annoying thing is that I could hear about any one of those last checks tomorrow, or by March! So we're still crossing our fingers about that! Cross yours too!!!

I can't remember what else has happened since the last time I wrote about our life...so I'll leave it at that. Now for picture time!!!