New Years & Jen's Visit

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Gama & The family

Moments before bringing in the new year...

2009 is going to be a GREAT year!!!


Me & my sister Ash

My loves...

This pic might be out of place...later in the night,

having a little fun!

Just the four of us

Puttin' on the naughty faces...

Me & JenJen

Bobby & Jeromy

What's her problem???

TAKE TWO:

Kim & Rog hanging out with us!!!

Bad Timing...

and...TAKE TWO...

Me and Kim...my big sis!

The girls before we went out

Three Christmases

CHRISTMAS #1

Dinner with my sister, brother-in-law and nieces and nephew

Dinner Time....

Sydney & Kamden with their new comforters (they were so excited, NOT)

Kailyn & Morgan opening their gifts from Aunt Amy & Uncle Jeromy


Beautiful Kailyn!!!

And since I didn't bring my camera, sadly that's all I could snatch from
my sister's blog...




CHRISTMAS #2
Dinner & presents with the Bullmans!!!

A gift from Patti...they are TRYING to convert me

into a DUKE fan. It might be working???

Me, Jero & sweet Charlie

The Davis's

Eric and I trying to get Charlie to smile...

he smiles on his own time :)

Big Boy Charlie on his new bike!

CHRISTMAS #3

Lunch & presents with Patti's family...

(I didn't take nearly enough pics to show

the whole family )

Jero very excited about opening his gift,

such a kid ;)

Gama in her HOT new coat...

she's so precious!!!

And the kids....

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A BLESSED CHRISTMAS!!!

Remembering You...

My mom went to be with the Lord six years ago yesterday. There's more than an enormous place in my heart soley reserved for my "mama". At times it feels like just yesterday I was laying my head in her lap so she could gently stroke my hair, b/c she knew that's what soothed me. However, other times it feels like an eternity that I was able to hug her and tell her how much I loved her.

She loved the little things in life, it never took much to make her happy. Just an outing to a grocery store with me would brighten her day (to this day, I wish I had indulged her just a bit more). She loved cooking amazing meals, she poured immense amounts of love into it. She adored time spent with just the four of us, family time was so important. She also relished the time spent with her sister and niece, and those were my best memories! Jen, her niece, had such a special place in her heart; as they were two of a kind!!! My Aunt was not only her sister, but her best friend and she misses her so much!

With every fiber of her being she loved and nurtured my sister and I. She sacrificed so much for us that words can't even describe. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her and miss her immensely. As I just said to someone the other day, until I am reunited with her again, all I can do is pray that I see her beautiful face in my dreams.

I love you mom...

Jeromy's Grandfather

Jeromy's Grandfather (Daddy Bill) passed away on Saturday. He passed unexpectedly, but quickly, of a massive heart attack. Sadly, he had to have his leg amputated months ago and it was not only difficult for the family, but so incredibly hard on him. Daddy Bill was such a strong man and hardly let on of his pain and suffering! He always seemed to have a warm smile on his face and something funny to say, and he was such a loving man. As the matriarch of the family, this was a hard loss to take for his children and grandchildren, but as we are assured, he is being welcomed into Heaven. He is healthy, happy and glorifying our Lord as we speak! He lived a long, happy life and adored his wife and family. He will be sorely missed and never forgotten!

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am" John 14:1-3

Tagged....

Hmmm...Ok, here we go, some good some bad!

1. I love old people, I am picky about this though! Most are so incredibly precious, and all I want to do is hug them!!!

2. Speaking of hugs (Ashley), I can't stand when someone hugs me so lightly you barely feel it...you know, they've got their butt sticking so far out that you think they think you have some sort of disease! If you're gonna hug someone, MAKE IT WORTH IT!!! I will call most people out on this too...so beware :)

3. Jeromy won't like that I posted this, but here it goes. I met Jeromy when he was working at Texas Roadhouse through college and I was managing. He was dating a girl that also worked there, whom I did know and like. First, let me just put this out there...Jeromy is very full of himself, and he used to think he was a gift to women (not a huge surprise to anyone that knows him). Well, while he was dating her and being so, um what's the word??? SMUG (love ya babe)...he so "smuggly" asked me to come hang out with him and his friends in a hot tub! I pretty much laughed at him and declined! Well, that was about 2 years before he actually, formerly, asked me out. So, I guess he knew what he wanted from the "get go" :)

4. I am 4 years older than Jeromy. FOUR VERY BIG, LARGE, ENORMOUS, GINORMOUS years OLDER...and I'm reminded of this regularly :) I don't feel older and I'm told all the time that I don't look a day over 24ish, so THERE!!!

5. I don't like talking on the phone. I'm terrible at answering calls, returning calls or just plain calling people. I ADMIT IT!!! (some of you are nodding in agreeance right now)

6. I pierced my tongue when I was like 21 or 22! At the time, my best friend and I thought it would be the "cool" thing to do. Another fact about me is that I have an EXTREMELY LOW tolerance for pain, so don't ask what prompted me to want to pierce my tongue! An interesting side note: it actually didn't hurt! (yea, I know, how in the world will I be able to give birth? not letting my mind wonder there yet!)

7. I wish I was taller, I'm scared of getting old and wrinkley, I wish so bad my husband would "baby" me, I want to see a Broadway show and a Nascar race soooo bad, I can't wait to have babies, I'm terrified of gaining weight (hopefully that doesn't make me sound vain, cause I'm really not), I love to shop, I want the fairytale, I don't like my job b/c I'm not reaching my full potential (hence the fact that I can write this blog WHILE I'm working!!!)....ok, gotta get back to work :)

And, I don't have anyone to tag :( But, thankyou Katrina for tagging me!!!

Bare Minimum...Newlywed Style!

So, after fixing some yummy hot chocolate for my hubs (well, after he brought down all the Christmas "stuff" from the attic, he DID help)...I decided to decorate our pitiful Christmas tree.

Now, I'm not going to diss it that bad b/c my Patti got it for us on our first Christmas...and we are grateful for that. But, this year after decorating the Christmas tree and setting out our very minimal knick-knacks, I had to laugh.

Here it is!!! Cute but pitiful...I think it's leaning. What do you think???

And, here are a few of our decorations...and as you can see, it "ain't" much! So newlywed"ish" of us!

I'm holding back until we can sell our townhome (which may be sometime around 2022???), to invest in more Christmas decorations! So until then, we will settle for this.

Oh, and check out how cute I was when I was only 3 years old!!! Not humble at all ;) Little blurry, but you get the picture!