You may think this is wEiRd but...

I love paying bills.

I don't know why, I just do. I LOVE paying bills. Now the bills that are reoccuring like cell phone and insurance, I feel very neutral about. The thing that I like to do with those is send in my payment with bill pay even though they draft it from my account. What I do is send in everything but a dollar or two. I think it's funny when they draft my account and all they get is a dollar. I feel like, "Ha ha! You tried to take money from me in the middle of the night, but you only got a dollar!"

However, I LOVE the bills that have a certain amount that you have to pay down by a certain time. I love watching that amount get smaller and smaller. I feel like these bill receivers want me to miss a payment or make a late payment. But when I send in a payment before time and for more than my personal goal, I feel like it's a big "TAKE THAT!" I imagine them getting my last payment and then turning red, crunching a paper in their hand, looking to the heavens and screaming, "ARRRR! Hooow did she do this! We're going to lose our jobs!" I just love paying bills!

Aaron's Resolution

One of my resolutions for the new year is to save more money. I spoke to Cheli about this one and she's really helped in this area. I was looking over my statement from last month and I realized how much money I spend on eating out. Boy, was it a lot. I've got a pretty crazy schedule from week to week, and eating out is sometimes the only option. From Whataburger to Chick-Fil-A. You name it, I've driven through it.
So with the change of the year, I have decided to change my spending habits and save more money simply by packing a lunch everyday and keeping some sort of snack in my car just in case I catch a hunger bug. I've already bought about $15.00 of groceries for the week which consist of basic essentials: lunchmeat, Rainbow bread, bottled water and chips. I love sandwiches and I can survive on these. After the wedding though, don't ask me if I want a sandwich. Love you. aaron

happy new year!

Araceli and I would like to say Happy New Year to all of our family, future family and friends. May God Bless all of you with the finest!

Aaron's Ex's

So as you may have read, Aaron was working on Saturday. ALthough he does an amazing job, I did start to get a little bit bored after a few hours. I was snooping around on Aaron's computer and would you believe that he still has pictures of his old girlfriends. Man, he is in t-r-o-u-b-l-e!! I forwarded the pics to myself before I deleted them. Here are some of them. Man these girls are UGLY!! Good ridance!

My Wonderful Weekend (featuring Aaron's slide)

Words cannot express what happened to me this weekend. But I guess "I'm engaged!" is a good start. There was so much that happened so just stay with me....

Christmas Eve:
7:00a Left from Dallas to San Angelo
11ish Arrived in San Angelo and began to play with Lexie Joy
6:30p Christmas Eve Service at SRC, went to Wita's, ate and started to open presents
10:45p Aaron arrives at Wita's!!!
12:45 I'm engaged!

Christmas Day:
9:00a We ate breakfast at Wita's. He likes oj with lots of pulp, i like it with no pulp, but i already knew that. I made eggs for Aaron for the first time :)
9:15a Aaron throws up.....just kidding.
12:00p Went to my mom's mom's house - Here Aaron had a blast getting to know my aunt and grandma.
4:00p Went to Jerry's parents house (jerry is my stepdad)
5:30p Went back to wita's, a bunch of the fam went out to eat, looking at Christmas lights, and then back to Wita's. We played Apples to apples and it was HILARIOUS!
12:00a Polished my nails

Friday:
9:00a Breakfast at Wita's again, yum. Aaron likes beans, but not for breakfast (already knew that too!)
10:30 Had to go back to my mom's mom's because mom wanted to give us some tamales, holla!
10:55 We meet Magaly, Miriam and Cami at Starbucks. Aaron fell in LOVE with Cami.
12:30 We leave for San Antonio!

4:00p We went straight to Mi Tierra (where we ate on our first date). Miracle: We were seated less than 10 minutes after arriving, our food was out in 15 min.
5:00p Went to the Riverwalk. Aaron took me shopping. This is where we took the most pics
9:00p Left San Antonio to Go to Corpus
11:15p Arrived completely tired!

Saturday:
8:45a Aaron pics me up to go to work! ugh!! go to sams first, then Old Navy- bought me more clothes. (i only brought winter stuff and it was so hot there!)
12:00p Bought lunch for Aaron and his dad.
12:00- 6:00p Watched Aaron at work. He is amazing!!
7:15p Left with Aaron and his Dad to Premont, TX to meet his dads side- so fun!
12:00 Left Premont. I was embarrassed bc i was alseep with my mouth open in the car.

Sunday:
8:42 Aaron comes to pick me up. Told him that he sd 8:45 and i needed more time.
8:45 Got in the car to go to church. Hey, every minute counts!
10:00 Pastors wife annouces our engagement to the Spanish congregation
11:30 Aaron announces our engagement to the English congregation, then preaches! whoa
1:00 Aaron takes me to La Playa to eat a Fried Avacado!! in heaven!
2:00 Went to the mall and to visit Freddie (aaron's uth pastor) at the church fireworks stand
4:45 Aaron drops me off at the airport :(
8:15 Arrive back in Dallas!

It's going to take me a while to take in all of the events of this weekend. It was so memorable! We are so excited!

The Finest Christmas

On Christmas Eve I drove to San Angelo, Texas to visit Araceli and her family. I left right after work and arrived at about 10:30 pm. That night was the best night of my life. I proposed to Araceli in a rather special way. She said, "Yes!" and then after several minutes couldn't remember if she said yes. That was funny.

The whole week was an event that was enchanting and special. I left San Angelo with my Christmas present, Cheli. We drove to San Antonio and spent the afternoon there with each other while enjoying all of the sights and sounds. It was spectacular!

I am absolutley convinced that Araceli and I are going to be so happy growing together and loving together. We are so excited...