Merry Christmas!!

Thanks to all of you, we had a WONDERFUL Christmas this year! We ended up broke at the end and buying a Turkey even became a project but, with some help, we pulled it off and we all had a blast!
We started off with a 'family' Christmas with Wolf and Tim as well (and Lavarus's help). Then we got some visitors for a nice two-Turkey dinner. (one was smoked, the other fried). I got my first taste of real collard greens... YUM! :c)

Rodney opening his p.j.s from Santa on Christmas Eve

Jonathan and his p.j.s

my p.j.s

Rodney and I snuck out for a quick visit to a Christmas Eve party.

The MASSIVE amounts of gifts!!

Our tree... don't know how it ended up sideways but, here it is!!!

Tristan opening his stocking from Gram Fran

Tatum jamming with her guitar

Tristan wearing Uncle Jon's shades

So, I REALLY don't know how some of these pictures ended up sideways!! This is Rodney Jr. giving Mr. Tim a high five after opening his present

Tristan got some help from Mr. Lavarus ( I know I didn't spell that right!)

Tatum LOVED these shoes!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Thank you!! MUAH!

Some Pics

For those of you who haven't figured it out yet...my mom came to visit us for a little over a week and we crammed lots of fun things and SHOPPING into those few days. Here are a few random pictures from her visit...

Banana Spider outside of my bedroom window

Post for Amy

This post is for Amy...

Just because I know you love this so much and I wanted to link it for you....



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8 Things Tag

RULES
1. Post rules on your Blog.
2. Answer the six "8" items.
3. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment.

8 Favorite Shows:
1. Grey's Anatomy
2.Private Practice
3. Survivor
4.Jon and Kate +8
5. Brothers & Sisters
6. Lipstick Jungle
7. Top Chef
8. Son's of Anarchy (going through withdraws right now)

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1. cleaned the kitchen
2. went to the mini-mart
3. made biscuits and gravy
4. cleaned the kitchen again
5. delivered dinner to Rodney at the ship
6. went to the mini-mart again (forgot milk)
7. made enchiladas and burned the rice
8. Watched the Break-Up

8 Things I Look Forward To:
1. CHRISTMAS!!
2. Rodney's pay raise in January
3. Moving into the new housing (hopefully in January)
4. figuring out a routine so I can get back to the gym everyday
5. losing 30 lbs
6. getting all of my laundry done and staying on top of it, not standing on top of it
7. eating Rodney's dinners for the rest of my life. YUM!
8. Tatum starting school!

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Macaroni Grill ( I miss this SO much!)
2. any authentic Mexican restaurant
3. Vitale's
4. Jan Z's
5. Caliente's
6. the Westin all you can eat buffet
7. Taco Bell
8. Wendy's

8 Things on my wish list:
1. A clutter free home
2. More photography jobs
3. paying off debts
4. Happy family
5. a move to Pittsburgh
6. for all the Obama haters to be proven wrong
7. for my family members to find good jobs SOON
8. A long healthy life

8 People to Tag:
I don't even know 8 people with blogs....

Lets start with..
AMY!



(Oh, and mom, don't worry, I'm not done blogging about your trip) :c)

The P.I.C.

I know it's taking me a while to finish blogging about my mom's trip here but, slowly but surely, I'm completing it!
This is the weekend we spent at the PIC. We decided to get a room there so we could spend two whole days using the pool. The kids loved it as usual. Now anytime I tell them we're going to the pool, they want to go to this one....

You can't tell but this tube went uphill and I had to put my hands on the bottom of Tristan's feet so he could make it to the other side.

I had to add this one because Rodney's belly looks so weird!! haha

Dad helping Rodney Jr. with the monkey bars.

Before we settled in for the night, we went to a different hotel and had an all you can eat seafood dinner then snuck out back to watch bits and pieces of the dance show.

Don't look at my thighs... oh darn! I just made you look didn't I???

(I'm working on fixing that!! haha)

Tristan just makes me smile when I look at this pic.

The gang of us.

Sometimes they act like they love each other...

Tatum went under the water about a hundred times while we were there. She just kept doing it over and over again. I don't know how she didn't pass out! And she didn't even hold her nose! She must have got that quality from Daddy because I still have to hold my nose!

Mom wanted to take home a souvenir! Sorry Mom... he has to stay!