Busy, Busy Christmas

Whew!...I was glad to get back to work.

We were busy all four days and we said we needed a vacation from our vacation. We also agreed that we were not going to travel that much next year.

Our first trip was Saturday to Cullman (Eva). Chris' cousin got married so we went and helped with Ashley and William. We didn't stay long due to them taking pictures and us wanting to get back home. Since William has taken up with his Uncle Chris, he wanted to go home with him. We really had to sneak out of the house.

Sunday we had Christmas at granny's. We first went to church with Joyce and Danny, then drove over to granny's house. Granny always has coffee going, so we bought her some nice coffee mugs. She got us a Trifle Bowl. So, now we have two of them. One she got us is currently holding all of our holiday candy and so I think I will make it our candy dish.

Monday we drove down to Ashland and had Christmas with my family. It is beginning to feel very different from what it used to be. I know we are all grown and have families of our own, but it is just not any where close to how it used to be. Most of the men were outside during gift time and it was more of a women talking ordeal. I wish we could have all been inside and just sat around for a small amount of time, but anyway...those that wanted to be there, were!

Tuesday we drove up to Cullman to have Christmas with Chris' mom and dad. Joyce always cooks a good breakfast! We all opened gifts and watched the kids open theirs. (The way it should be and not like my family). After gifts we celebrated Chris' birthday, by singing Happy Birthday to him and eating cake. He wanted a Red Velvet and Cream Cheese cake....it was good! The weather was yucky with rain, cold and fog. So driving home was not the best. I am really excited to use the gift card to Applebee's!

Christmas Memories :)

I thought I would do a post about my Christmas memories. Not that they are all that exciting, but I just want to have them down, so when I get Alzheimers or something like that I will have them. I am not going to do them in any order just as I think about them.

•I remember the first time I found out there was no Santa Claus :( When I woke up the next morning I had the same amount of gifts I had the night before. Talk about thinking Santa missed you! I was bummed.
•I had a relative, Aunt Cora Lee, and she had to guard my grandmothers tree one year from me and my cousin, Chanda. My grandmother had bought us a pink ice ring and we could not look under the tree.
•I had wrote Santa a letter one year and when I got up Christmas Day I could tell that the letter was from my dad. It pays to pay attention to your parents handwriting!
•One year I gave my pawpaw a 2x4...wrapped! It might sound crazy, but his work shop was hit by a tornado earlier in the year.
•I remember one year getting a Barney stuffed animal.
•One year I got a bunch of Star Wars stuff from a friend.
•When I got older, we started having Christmas on Christmas Eve night. That way we could sleep in on Christmas Day.
•The first year my parents and I bought a real Christmas tree. It was huge...we had no sense of judgement. Our cat stayed under the tree.
•We  had the Coca Cola Village. With about nine houses, people, train, trees, cars, benches...a whole bunch of stuff.
•Chris and mine first Christmas - We got up early and exchanged gifts. His family had gotten us a "Our First Christmas" ornament.
•I love when Chris and I put up our decorations. We play Christmas music! We also play music on Christmas Day when we open presents.
•The Christmas my pawpaw was sick. Was a very hard Christmas, we didn't go down to my grandmothers and so Christmas was just not Christmas.
•My grandmother always gives $. When our family was small we got $40, now that our family has grown she has cut in down.

Concrete Sidewalk Attack

Lets just say that a concrete sidewalk + me =

Yes, it hurt.

Yes, I cried (a little)

Yes, there are more scrapes!

I was walking Bear Saturday afternoon and he saw another dog in the next yard. That dog was coming our way, so Bear took off and down I went.

Update on me

I went to the doctor yesterday and everything is good. I have to keep taking my vitamins and get one that has a little more folic acid. The one I am currently taking has 400 mcg of it and I need 800 mcg. So I can either get a prescription (which cost less), buy a single bottle of folic acid, or buy the Women's One A Day Prenatal (which is around $14). So I may just use up what I have and then check on getting a prescription for it.

Some of this may be TMI, but I wanted to write about it so I will not forget it in years to come.

She told me to give my body one or two periods, to make sure things are going great in that department.

When I do have a positive pregnancy test. She wants me to call and come in for blood work and the typical pregnancy confirmation stuff. If I have a positive result she will start me on some medicine. I am not sure what it is or will be, but I assume it is something to keep things going good. She also wants to take blood work for a couple of days to make sure my hormone levels are going up and not down (miscarriage).

So, it was basically a good visit. I kinda figured she would tell me all this anyway.

Other news:
We finally got our rock bed finished. It looks so good. I do have two pictures to post, but those will have to wait until I get them off my phone.

We have been needing a new ADS sign. So I contacted them and they actually sent us two! They are very nice and fast people.

Our parents and Chris' sister (and family) came on up on the 10th. Chris grilled steak and we had potato salad and black eye peas. We all had a good time, except for Alabama losing against Texas A&M.

I am so ready to start putting our Christmas stuff out, but we need to celebrate Thanksgiving first. We like to start putting stuff out the weekend after Thanksgiving. Since our rock bed is done, we may put our lighted, spiral Christmas trees out. I do want to change our lights in our windows. I have been using a single candle in each window, but Chris likes the tier ones. So, I may be changing those...not sure.

I am also doing the Marshall County Christmas Coalition buying again this year. It is such a blessing to be able to go and buy for others.