Practice makes perfect!

Tonight, Brad and I are getting to keep our niece, Reece, OVERNIGHT! She is April's daughter and she just turned one. This is a very big deal because Reece has never spent the night away from home. And we need all the practice we can get before we start our own family! We started the night off eating dinner at Logan's with Brooke and TB (and Brad!). Dinner went perfectly. Reece ate a roll and about half of her macaroni and cheese....AND she flirted with the waiter (blowing him kisses and waving to him)! She was a perfect angel! After dinner, we went to Mom's house (where we are currently awaiting the new year) and we put on her pajamas. She then took her night-time bottle and after playing with MiMi, Pop, Katie, Douglas, Me and Brad, she fell right asleep, after we watched some of Maid in Manhattan! I can only pray that our children will be so perfect! I seriously love that kid (well all of April's kids) so much that I really wonder if I could possibly love my own more. And speaking of April's kids, today I was talking with Peyton about his candy he got from school today. He showed me a few pieces, asking me which one I wanted, and I said, "Oh, sweettarts!" To which his cute little face completely LIT UP and he said, "I didn't know you could read!!!" Ha! Love him!

3 down, 22 to go!

I know it's been a while since I posted about my quilt, but good grief, it takes forever to sew all those little hexagons together! The first flower took me about six hours to complete, the second about five and the third one about four and a half hours. So I'm getting a little quicker. So far I have about sixteen hours invested into the quilt, as you see in the picture. I really think it's going to look great once it's done. I'm thinking about trying my Mom's sewing machine out instead of doing the whole thing by hand like I have been doing, just because it is soooo time consuming. But there you have it, my quilt to date!

Seven Pounds

Wow. That's all I can say. Wow. I saw this movie a few days ago with Brad and his parents. I'm the only one that actually liked the movie, but I really liked it. I can't really tell you what it's about because you don't really know what it's about until the very end and I don't want to spoil it for you! I think Will Smith is probably one of the best actors of all time (and Tom Hanks). Definitely go see this movie. 5 out of 5 stars!

Christmas 2008

What a great Christmas! We started the day early-7:00am to be exact! Brad cooked breakfast for me, Mom, Doug, Dad, Big Mama, Katie and Ben! And it was delicious! Then after breakfast, Brad and I opened our presents from each other. Brad's favorite present was:

His grill! And my favorites were:

My houndstooth rainboots and......

My Sony 300 digital camera! Woo hoo!!! So after we opened presents, the whole crew headed over to April's house to see what all Santa brought the kids. They were all so cute in their matching pajamas, which reminds me-When I told Peyton how cute his 'pjs' were he said, "They are pajamas, you silly silly girl." Ha! After April's house, we went to Brad's brother Keith's house to see what our other nephews got from Santa. And after THAT, we headed to Brad's mom's house for Christmas dinner. I have tons of pictures from dinner because my camera wasn't charged until then!

Some of the family playing my new game, Yahtzee Free For All!

Papa Carl and Forrest opening gifts


Ann and Harper

Greyson


Me and Harper

We hope you all had a great Christmas! I'm so glad we are all off work until Monday! Today, Brad, me and his parents are going to see Seven Pounds (with Will Smith) and we are having lunch with two really good friends, Brooke and TB! This is the life!

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

Hot Dog it's Christmas Eve!!!!!!! I'm so excited! Brad and I are starting many family traditions this Christmas, being our very first married Christmas! His contribution to our new family traditions was suggesting that each year, we buy each other our Christmas pajamas and we get to open that present on Christmas Eve so that we can wear those pajamas to bed and on Christmas morning! Well I've been thinking about one of the traditions that I wanted to contribute and I came up with this: shaking one present on Christmas Eve Eve. Not very clever, but I'm all about shaking my presents and Brad NEVER lets me do it! So last night, I picked out Brad's present for him to shake. He shook and shook and couldn't figure out what it was. Then it was MY turn! I told him that I really wanted to shake the smallest present because it just looked so enticing! So he obliged and let me shake that one. Before I shook it, I thought it must have been jewelry or something, but when he handed it to me, it was very heavy and it sounded like it had liquid in it. I knew immediately what it was! I was running low on my perfume and I told Brad that I needed some more earlier. HA! Then the conversation went as follows:

Me: "I know what it is!!! Can I tell you to see if I'm right?"
Brad: "No! That's exactly why I didn't want you to shake any presents!"

He knows that I know. Hee hee haa haa. And it is killing him! So I doubt MY tradition will make it to next year. So sad.

We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!

My Lucky Day

On September 23rd, I got a fortune cookie that read, "Remember three months from today. Good things will happen to you." Today's the day people! I'll let you know what lucky something happens!

UPDATE: Well my lucky day started out with me hitting my thumb with a hammer but ended with me getting my big fat Christmas bonus! It really was my lucky day!

George Update

Brad went across town and got George yesterday afternoon. And the lady that called me about him came over to the house to see him. And as it turns out, the girl went to school with Brad. She stuck her hand out to George and he came right to her! He never goes to a stranger! So hopefully they will get along! If not, I'm back to square one again.