Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Friday, February 11, 2011

Christmas 2010

I know I am way behind, but....


The traditional Christmas morning photo.
I am sure my kids will be thrilled I posted this one.
SORRY KIDS :)

I forgot to take my camera or even take pictures when I had my camera with me.  I'll do better next year?

This was a fun Christmas.  Hannah got to come home.  Yay!  We didn't get to see her for Thanksgiving, so we were ready to see her.

Also, this was the first year in a while that all of my brothers and sisters were together.  We had a great time.

Also, for my whole married life, Kyle has been allergic to something at his mom and dad's house.  He spends the day we are there for Christmas out on the front porch or sitting in the kitchen(the only room in the house that he could breath okay in).  Then two boxes of tissue and at least one asthma attack later (at least two days after we would get home) he would finally get better.  Kyle's parents, every year (before we come) have tried everything to make things better for him.  They have deep cleaned everything -taken furniture apart and bleached and cleaned each piece, vacuumed everything in sight, dusted, had their duct work cleaned, etc.  Nothing seemed to work.  

This past year, they replaced their AC unit.  We show up for Christmas and Kyle can breath.  He was able to go in the family room and watch football and gab with everyone.  So the AC unit was the culprit and now it is gone and we had a blowing your nose and asthma attack free Christmas.  Yay!!!

I am sure my sibling will love this.  We had a ugly Christmas sweater contest this year.  Of course I forgot my camera, but lucky for me and them, I had my handy dandy phone.  The lighting was bad in the room, so my pictures turned out grainy, but I have to share the fun we had.

Aren't they cute?  
They look like they belong in a Christmas movie.

I have to say that Matt won the competition.  Candace bought the shirt he is wearing to wear under her vest.  I guess Matt wanted to compete, so he wore the shirt.


I just have to say that Jamie's sweater was by far the most unique I have ever seen.  To truly appreciate this beauty, you have to see it from both sides. There are no words to describe it.  Who comes up with these things?
Side A


Side B

Are you confused?  So were we!




Their hubbies didn't compete in the contest, so they posed together.  I think I have actually seen people wearing sweaters like these beauties.

The whole gang.  
They posed together and then we voted.  I think we all laughed until we cried.  Definitely funny stuff!

To finish off Christmas Day, we got a visit from Grandmama in her Titans jersey.  She had just gotten it and was excited to have something Titans.  We all loved seeing Grandmama.  Thanks Uncle Joe, for driving in our first white Christmas in 17 years, so that we could see Grandmama.


Friday, December 11, 2009

Worst Christmas Songs Ever!

So this year is the first year in about 10 years that I am excited about Christmas. I used to love it until it came to traveling, and the kids getting sick, and shopping around all of the grumpy people, and decorating only to have the lights go out. Whew!
Anyway, I am excited about Christmas this year even though my shopping isn't done yet. I listen to Christmas music and shop and try to stay calm in all the madness. I do okay until I hear those awful songs. Yes, you know the ones. The ones that should never be played on the radio or for that matter anywhere. I was talking about this with Carrie and thought I would blog about these songs.

1. Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney
Need I say more?

2. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, by Leanne Rimes. It is just awful! I would rather listen to someone run their fingernails down a chalkboard.

3. Last Christmas
Yes the one sung by Wham!
That song is weird on so many levels and I wish they would have saved me from tears and kept the song to themselves.

4. Christmas Is Just Around The Corner by Barry Manilow
This one is a new one this year. If you haven't heard it yet, consider yourself lucky and warned. I am doing pretty good staying excited about Christmas until I hear this song. This brings my stress levels way up. Come on Barry, retire already!

This is just a small sampling of the songs that come to mind right now. There may be more.

So, I was wondering? What Christmas songs could you do without? I would love to know!

Busy Busy Busy

It has been a CRAZY few weeks. I haven't really felt like blogging much either. I didn't really have to much to say. Savannah and I went to see New Moon. We loved it! It was weird not going to see it with Hannah, but thanks to Carrie and Candace, she got to see it with family and still have some girl fun. We are already looking forward to Eclipse!

Hannah got to come home for Thanksgiving. It was nice to see her and have her home. The kids enjoyed the warm weather one day and went outside and threw a football to each other and we watched the UT game with Hannah. (she liked that)

Brinkley just chilled outside. Spoiled dog!







Zachary and Savannah went to the orthodontist in November and entered their drawing for a gift card to Honey Baked Ham and Zachary won. He is excited about that. He gets to pick out what ever dessert he wants. Yum!

Now if I can just get my Christmas shopping done!