Getting To Know You During the Holidays!

Here is an email I received that I thought would be a fun blog post. Thanks Laura!


1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping Paper
2. Real tree or Artificial? I like real but pine needles and baby don't mix!
3. When do you put up the tree? The weekend after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down? After the Epiphany
5. Do you like eggnog? not really
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Favorite...hard...my kitchen, my dolls, my skates, my clothes...I liked them all...ohhh maybe the tiny tv my dad gave me.
7. Hardest person to buy for? Gus
8. Easiest person to buy for? the boys
9. Do you have a nativity scene? somewhere
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Probably socks
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Black Friday
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Pork!
16. Lights on the tree? white
17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh Holy Night
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Staying home
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Excess traffic
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? gold, red
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Pork, black beans and rice, mojo, Cuban bread, plantains, and it is always on Christmas Eve
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? $ to decorate with!

Your turn to respond! Cut and paste all the questions and change the answers! Can't wait to see everyone's posts.

Fun Foto Friday!

Another fun post .....fun foto Friday. Post a pic or two...doesn't have to be anything specfic. Just fun!

Here is Emily...my little Linus. She walks everywhere with her blankie and thumb....awe!

The Five List

Again my blogger friend Denise has these great writing assignments and this one looks so fun. Thanks Denise for having such an awesome blog!

Five Things On My To Do List
1. Get Jonathan up and to school
2. Go grocery shopping
3. Go to Jake's Thanksgiving lunch today
4. Never ending laundry
5. Returns at Old Navy, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond

Five Things I Like To Snack On
1. Popcorn
2. Chex Trail Mix
3. Red apple slices
4. Chips
5. Wheat Thins

Five Things I Would Do If I Was A Millionaire
1. Pay off everything
2. Upgrade our home- MOVE
3. Invest
4. College funds and trusts
5. Pay off my family's debts

Five Places I Have Lived
1. Louisiana
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Hawaii
5. There is no five...yet.

Five People I am Tagging....

Tag your it....it's your turn to blog about your fives.

1. Jackie
2. Adriana
3. Amanda
4. Diana
5. Laura-your blog is sleeping...time to wake it up!:)

Thankful Tuesday

OK...so a blogger friend, Denise, has given me an assignment to write about ten things I am thankful for...she did hers about her husband and I too will follow suite.
For my husband....

1. I am thankful that you are full of determination...otherwise I would never have met you....you did chase me (now it is a matter of public record!)

2. I am thankful that you are so stinkin smart....about most things. It has helped you become successful. You are a great provider! Don't be fooled though....you still don't know everything...and everything can't always be proven.

3. I am thankful for the amazing beautiful daughter you have given me. Never in a lifetime did I think I would have been blessed with a daughter!

4. I am thankful that you like the finer things in life! I love that you want to travel and shop too.

5. I am thankful that you are a home body. I love that you want to be with me instead of going out with the guys.

6. I am thankful for our ice cream breaks. I am glad you have a sweet tooth.

7. I am thankful that you love music and want it on in the house. I hate when it is quite.

8. I am thankful that you put up with my emotional moments and know that I love my kids to a fault sometimes.

9. I am thankful that we got married on the beach and skipped the big to do!

10. I am thankful for you!

The Newest Purchase

Gus' newest purchase the Canon Rebel xti 10.1...so excited for him and scared for me...how will I ever learn to use this right? Hopefully there will be pics to post soon.

What is going on?

*Sigh* The camera has magically broken...not sure if I left it on but when we took it out the top off the camera looked kinda melted. Good thing Black Friday is coming....and now the built in microwave is not working. I guess we are shopping this weekend as it seems like it will cost more to fix than to replace. Why do they charge these outragous labor fees by the hour?

Poor little Emily is teething something aweful too. She is cutting her four first molars and her four incisors....poor thing with a low grade fever, chin rash, and runny nose.

The Kids

Here is one shot of our last photo session. If only I could get all of them to look at the same time!

Long Weekend leading into long week....

Quick recap
Friday
lunch playdate with Dixie and Ian
Host neighborhood Halloween party with Monica
Went to parents house so they could see the kids and stopped into their neighborhood party
Trick or Treat

Saturday
Football playoffs-lost
Went into Atlanta-Centinneal Olympic Park, CNN, CocaCola
Out to dinner

Sunday
Time change-YAY!!!
Church
Emily had pics made wearing Ivy's tutus
Out to eat with friends at Mango's

Monday
Running around to get subsitute paperwork in
Fingerprinting at the court house
Back to drop off more paperwork

Today
VOTE!!!!

Here is the important stuff....the pics!