SNOW!

It's coming down as I type. The metorologists predict 1-3 inches for our area. We'll see. I doubt we get that much though.

Our fingers are crossed that we get a "snow day" tomorrow and get to stay home.

2011 Resolution

What's your New Year's Resolution?


I'm trying to drink more water. I never realized there were so many benefits to gulping down water. Here's a link that discusses just a few of the benefits:
http://www.health-benefit-of-water.com/benefit-of-drinking-water.html and there are so many more.

I'm only 6 days in, and I already feel like I have more energy. Now, if only I could kick my Dr Pepper habit...

Happy New Year!

Over the weekend we traveled to Grenada, Mississippi to visit with my family, the same crew that came to stay with us over Thanksgiving. For New Year's Eve, we rode out the multiple storms that came through at my parents house. Talk about a slumber party. All 13 of us spent the night at my parents 3 bedroom, 2 bath house. The night ended with my mom yelling out, "Goodnight, John-boy". The following morning may have been out of chronological order, but who says you have to celebrate Christmas before New Year's? We started the new year off with opening Christmas presents since we thought we'd made the kids wait long enough. For lunch we were back on the right schedule. We gobbled up the traditional New Year's lunch: ham, black eyed peas, cornbread, and cabbage. And by Saturday afternoon we were celebrating our third event- Karen's 40th Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Big Sis!

I'll be back soon with pictures. My computer is ancient and doesn't recognize the memory card for my new camera. Fortunately, Tom's computer will read the memory cards, but his computer rarely picks up the wireless signal long enough for me to upload anything. Next Tuesday, we're getting a new service provider, so hopefully things will be a little easier at least until I cave in and buy a new computer.

Christmas Day

There was a very joyful two-year-old boy in our house today! Here are some of the photos...


This is Shake 'N' Go Lightning McQueen number 3 for Micah, and it's still one of his favorites.

Cars, Cars, and more Cars.

...And the much anticipated 4-wheeler riding outside

There's the Honeycutt tongue. It always pops out during extreme concentration.

My happy little man on his shiny new ride.

Merry Christmas!

Rockin' Around the Christmas TreeS

If you have followed my blog for a while now, you would know that our last Christmas was spent buying a house, selling a house, packing, and moving 800 miles to the great state of Texas. There was little time and effort put into decorating. So, in honor of a missed season, I put up and decorated 3 Christmas trees. Well, five trees if you count the two 4' trees just outside of the front door. The tree upstairs is decorated in all of our typical decorations in silver, white, and clear letting the presents and wrapping paper add a bit of flare in red and green. By the way, this is also the tree that will be retiring this year. Tom accidentally broke the plastic stand this year and it leans a little to the left now.

Our downstairs tree is a tall, skinny little thing that fits perfectly next to the fireplace. It is decorated in red and green and also holds our family hand made ornaments and a few other personalized ornaments too.

Yes, Santa has already made a pit stop at our house and I'm thankful he came early. Relaxing on the couch watching a movie sippin' on some Bailey's and hot chocolate is the way we like to spend Christmas eve.

[I CAN NOT wait to see the look on Micah's face when he sees his 4-wheeler! He's OBSESSED with cars, trucks and any other mode of transportation. It should be a fun Christmas morning!]

Our third tree is actually on the landing above the front door, and I seemed to have forgotten to take any photos of it. It is decorated quite simply with only white lights and red ribbon. I'll try to remember to post a shot of it before we take it down. Tom really was a sport for putting it up for me. He had to haul the whole thing up an extension ladder and set up a timer for the lights. He's a good hubby!

Now, back to the movie of the night: Prince of Persia....Ahhhh, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Merry Christmas from these two elves!

Did You Miss Us?

We haven't been exempt from all of the hustle and bustle of the season. Between work and school and shopping and parties, we've been a tad bit busy.

To recap the week we have:

1) worked too much
2) finished shopping
3) wrapped all of the presents
4) watched lots of movies
5) eaten lots of chocolate and sweets
6) consoled a sick little boy

As for #6, Micah was sent home from school on Monday with a fever and hasn't been able to return because he came down with bronchitis. Poor little guy. His cough is so hard to listen to. If only I could trade places with him. The doctor perscribed an antibiotic and this inhaler.

Micah is terrified of this thing! When either Tom or I have it in our hands, he litterally runs screaming. To administer the medicine it takes both us to hold him down. He holds his breath and turns red in the face until finally he inhales. I really wish there were an easier way to help with his awful cough.

Jumping back up to #5, we've had lots of fun making and eating sweets. Micah was helping me make chocolate covered pretzels.

We're all really anticipating Grandpa Deen's arrival tomorrow and a visit from Santa on Saturday!

We Wish You A Merry Christmas!