December Is JUST Around The Bend.....And GiGi Is Coming!

Just awhile ago I stumbled upon a new blog , Gremlin Wrangler, (new to me, that is) and she is doing a contest. Not just ANY contest, though, she's an artist. And I couldn't resist this one, I entered it! She takes photos and sketches amazing likenesses of the person in the photo and I know JUST who I'll have sketched. I love personalized things at Christmastime--there's about nothing better. She's pretty funny too, mosey over there if you're a loser on a Friday night, sitting around reading blogs. Okay, I'm a loser sitting around too, but still....go over!

This is the Country Club Plaza here in Kansas City in the Christmas season, all lit up!

And this is the courtyard at Hallmark's Crown Center at Christmas, with the ice skating rink in the background. Note the wooden toyland down there?
Yup, that'd be the one I posted pics of a few months ago, with us last December playing in the toy yard and dining in the train car.

Why you wonder? She must be simply uninspired and out of ideas so she's re-posting. Kind of like television in January? Naww....I had a wonderful phone conversation with my BFF Gigi (remember, I met her at Silver Dollar City this summer?). Gigi, her husband and two little ones are coming to town! This is even BETTER than Santa Claus coming to town. Almost.

We talked about it and I THINK it has been decided her family will come to Kansas City (they live in Springfield, so it's not a big drive) and we'll do Crown Center upp big. Along with my BFTRLF Cat--she and her family will join us. I sure hope they don't try to drive the car, though, that's MY job. I am the driver. And it's MY little house, but you can come in and look out the windows with me, but you have to know it's my little house.

I'm soooo excited. It doesn't take much, I know, I know. But I still cannot wait for them to come. I think I mentioned it to GiGi, so it won't be wrong for me to let you know she and her husband have generously agreed being a guest in my home for two nights was worth $300.00. Easy. If not more. And dinner...they're buying dinner for us ALL (Cat, you too!). Isn't GiGi grand?

Again....who says bloggers aren't real friends? I contend my blog friends are more real with me at times than folks I come face to face with all the time and I hope I get the opportunity to meet ALL of mine over time. Maybe. I dunno--now I've gone and scared myself.