Christmas Time is Coming!

A Christmas Post in bullet form:

- I have 2 more days left of school! Wahoo!
- I have a staff party Tuesday night and it should be a lot of fun.
- Wednesday, me, mom, Nickel, and the girls are going to the American Girl store in Atlanta. I am so excited because I have an American girl, but I never got to actually go to the store and shop!(not that I will be buying anything this trip)
- Matt is already in Dadeville helping out at Camp, and I will leave Thursday morning and head down with the cat, dog, and all our Christmas goodies!
- Me, my brother, my sister, our spouses, and the nieces and nephew will be at my mom's Christmas Eve/ Chrsitmas Day so it should be an interesting weekend! Of course exciting as always. (this will be the first time since Eddie was born that we will all be at the house together!
- We are leaving the day after Christmas (once Matt and his friends play paintball) to spend the rest of Christmas Break in North Carolina!
- We will return New Year's Eve and hopefully lay low that weekend because I start school again on January 3rd, Matt has to go to Knoxville for a week in mid-January, I have state testing, and then we have to prepare for Matt to leave for Knoxville until July!

I will definitely blog sometime over the break, hopefully in between Christmas in Dadeville and North Carolina! I hope you and your family has a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!
Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

Because I Cannot Leave Him Out!!!

This is my first love, Waylon, enjoying huskies in the tv this morning! Matt sent this to me as I was driving to work and it cracked me up! He is so funny, even though he woke me up at 4 AM today hacking and coughing!


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The Cat and his Mice

This precious angel, Jennings, has recently found that he loves mice! Sunday morning I was awoken to the sound of a squeaking mouse scampering in our bedroom. I shook Matt awake and told him that he had to get the mouse out immediately! So he got up and picked the mouse up in a bag and threw it outside. It unfortunately did not make it past where Matt threw him in the yard. Well, Sunday we both get in the bed pretty early and about an hour and a half later I hear squeaking again. So I wake Matt up again and tell him to get up and get the mouse out! Being the loving husband he is he got up and took care of the mouse, again! I decided then that the cat was not allowed in our bedroom anymore. That lasted about 4-5 hours until the cat realized he was locked out and whined/cried/scratched at the door. So I let him in. Well at 4:45 AM I hear the squeaking again and wake Matt up, but he refuses to get up so for the next hour I listened to Jennings playing with this mouse and praying that he did not bring it on the bed! When we both finally got up I told Matt to grab the mouse and get it out...Well before Matt could grab the mouse Jennings scooped it up in his mouth and ran to the basement. I closed the cat in the basement and wished him luck. While I was getting ready this morning, Matt went to get his pants from the dryer and he told me to come look downstairs. What did I see? My precious Jennings tearing that poor mouse to pieces and eating him. So needless to say Jennings is banished to the basement until it is warm again. I just DO NOT DO MICE!

This look just like those little mice that Jennings was terrorizing!



1 Year Later

I can't believe that one year ago today I married the Man of My Dreams! We had a long, complicated, 3 states away courtship that turned into a quick engagement and a dream wedding. This year has brought us 5 1/2 months apart, a cat, a niece, a nephew, a coaching job, the house buying process, countless trips to North Carolina, 2 birthdays (one bringing Matt closer to 30 and me closer to 25!), friend's babies, ups/downs, on and on and on. I could recap everything that we have done but that would take forever! I also feel that if you want to know what we have done over the past year just check out the December-December of the blog! I found this idea on Pintrest and you take a picture each year on your anniversary with a picture of the year before. So we held a picture of our wedding day! (Next year we will hold this picture, so on and so on!) I think it is a super cute idea! Matt, I love you more today than yesterday and I cannot wait for the next 65+ years!


Our Cake that Mrs. Kelly made for us!

I was not really into the whole tradition of freezing the top of the cake and then eating it a year later, so Mrs. Kelly made us a replica and it was delicious!!


It was sssssooooo good at our Wedding and this replica was amazing as well!!!




2010 (picture) and 2011



My beautiful Sapphire ring that Matt got me!! He got new Costa Sunglasses, but we didn't get a pic!

Saturday night we went to eat at Bellini's in Hoover. I found it on Urbanspoon and it was delicious. Matt had the Filet and I had pan seared Grouper. Since it was our Anniversary we got a free dessert. We decided on their White Chocolate Bread Pudding. All in all the dinner was fabulous and it was fun to get dressed up and go out!