CELEBRATIONS!

This past weekend our family of four traveled to spend some time with my side of the family for some celebrations. On Saturday we celebrated my sweet Grandma's (Brantley's GGma) birthday. She turned 80, but doesn't look it and certainly doesn't act like it! We had a Hot Dog Roast and a dance party. A great time was had by all.

Brantley had the best time rearranging the chairs at GGma's birthday party.

Me and my girl dancing the night away:)

Okay, so ignore B's face in this picture. It's the only picture I got with my awesome grandma that night:)

Below is a picture Eric took of B at Sassy's house. This girl almost always has a purse on her arm!

On Sunday we went to my Dad's house to celebrate Christmas with Brantley's PaPa, DeDe, Aunt Katie, and my Grandma Kitty.  We started the late afternoon off with my Dad's incredible ribs and chicken, yummy Velvetta Shells and Cheese, and salad. We then moved on to presents! SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

Let the traditions begin.....

Our sweet little family of three, okay, four counting Sadie, was so excited to start our holiday traditions the day after Thanksgiving this year. We picked out our tree (at Lowe's of course!), decorated the tree and house while listening to Christmas music, wrapped the gifts and placed them under the tree and when December 1st rolled around we were ready to have some fun. We ate an early dinner of yummy breakast food, bundled up in our warmest attire and headed to The Lights at the Zoo.

Yeah for Lights at the Zoo!

Daddy and his girl!

Candy Cane Lane

I love them so much!

The Garden:)

Story time by the "fire".

"Is this present for me?"

Bunch of Crazies!

Me and my little Eskimo!

This is exactly what I thought her first picture with Santa would look like. Daddy and Mommy all smiles and B crying her eyes out:)

Christmas 2009, one of my best friends and I took B to the Lights at the Zoo while Daddy stayed at home and battled a nasty cold. 

Me and DD!!!

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2010

A little bit of this and a little bit of that!

If you didn't read yesterday's post then you need to head over to CND photograhpy and sign up for this awesome giveaway. Charlie and his wife are some of our best friends and Charlie just happens to be this incredibly talented photographer. Charlie very rarely goes anywhere without his camera (for which we are all grateful) and very often makes the mistake of setting it down for a few minutes only to be snatched up by my sweet and CRAZY husband. And when this happens, this is what we get......

 (I have no idea whose sunglasses these are!)

And of course when Charlie gets his camera back, well.....it doesn't get much better with the amount of craziness that is captured!

Can everyone please take a moment and smile at my sweet friend, Renae, in the background breaking it down! (sorry, Nae, It made me smile!)


Now on to even more precious things........My B!!!! Today she had a Thanksgiving Celebration at Weekday! I love her to the moon and back!

AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!!

I am not sure why I am blogging about this because I really want to win this giveaway and the less entries the greater my chances are of winning, BUT......he is just that good that I can't keep it a secret anymore. Please head over to CND Portfolio (blog link listed to the right with all of the blogs I follow) and sign up for this awesome giveaway. Charlie has taken pictures of our family several times and recently took pictures of one of my best friend's wedding and I have NEVER been dissappointed and I can promise you won't either. So go....now....sign up....but... I hope you don't win! (I want to!)

No Words......Just pictures!

Because that is what most of you really care about anyways.......

Coffee Filters

There are so many uses for coffee filters.......

Enjoying a warm cup of coffee.

 

When I was a little girl I would have told you that coffee filters were meant to be worn on your head. 

 My mom has told me that you can use them for cleaning.

I love to save money (who doesn't?) and I love to decorate and redecorate my house! So, I say.....(and thousands of others) that coffee filters were meant for decoration!

This is my $5.00 fall wreath made out of natural colored coffee filters. Only took me about 45 minutes and I LOVE it!

How do you use coffee filters?

Odds and Ends

Here are some things that our family has been up to in the past month.......

Brantley has found her new favorite place to play. One of our kitchen drawers!

We have gotten to spend time with Sweet Baby Ian!

We spent Labor Day 2010 at Finlay Park with some of our greatest friends. Including Brantley's favorite Nae-Nae.

We went to Monkey Joe's with B's Sassy and my great friend, Andrea, and her little boy, Grantham.

Brantley is getting much better at using utensils when she eats. I know it doesn't look like it here, but trust me, it is much better than it was. 

We went to the Greek Festival this year and ran into our favorite Trevett Family!

I am still loving sewing and I have a list a mile long of projects that I want to accomplish, but here is my most recent accomplishment. 

A laptop cover!