New Year, Still the bad blogger...lol...

Yes, Yes, I KNOW I said I was going to be a better blogger and here it is the 5th and I STILL haven't even posted the first "Happy New Year" or ANYTHING!!!

Mother & Peyton left the Thursday before New Years and went to Marietta to spend some time with our Aunt Lynnie & Uncle Gare so Terry & I were left to our own devices for any New Years festivities.  My friend Ashley called and asked us to come over and watch the UGA game, grill out and shoot some fireworks for New Years so that is exactly what we did!  I am not a UGA fan at all so their loss did not make me cry at all  - sorry to my UGA pals :) -  we had a good time with good friends and PTL no one was injured when the guys were shooting ( I called it "playing with" lol) the fireworks. 

Lesson Learned on New Years Eve:  EXTREMELY DRY GRASS AND FIREWORKS DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT GO TOGETHER!!!! (just ask Marc...tee hee)

   Tim & Ashley now have a VERY LARGE black circle in the backyard!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! 

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas

   Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday!



Yummy fudge, with some extra sugar ;)

Peyton & Brodie took to making Peyton's famous yummy fudge she makes every year at Christmastime.  It really is YUMMY - this year, however, it will be extra sweet as there were Brodie-sized bites out of the chocolate cubes before they were melted down.....lol.....Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Cousins

Cousin Christie & Me

My sister was testing her new camera and this is one of the gazillion shots she took of us..lol

Holidays & Family

Daddy with his children & grandchildren

Rolling change at my Nanny's house for charity.  This is what we do every year instead of exchanging gifts.  Much more satisfying!

Halloween

Peyton was a "candy-corn witch" for Halloween this year!!!!

Christmas at Nanny's...helping others....

So this past Saturday we had our annual Christmas dinner-get together at my Nanny's house (my Mother's mother). Several years back we made this rule that only the kids get a gift since all the rest of us are old now and no one really needs anything, etc. Well, instead what we do is each person or branch of the family saves all their change throughout the year and a different person from the family each year gets to pick a charity in which we will give this money to. We all bring out our change jars, jugs, bags, piggy banks and what have you and after we eat we pour it all out on a big table and sit around and seperate it, roll it then count it all up, try and keep Blayd from eating the it....the child loves to put change in his mouth, during which we have fun conversation, catch up with the out of towners and get extremely DIRTY hands...you have NO IDEA how NASTY money is!!!! This year we managed to save up I believe the total was somewhere around $1,300-1,400 dollars! My sister was the lucky one to get to pick the charity this year and the donation is going to The American Cancer Society in honor of our Nanny surviving cancer and our Cousin Lucius Powers succumbing to his brain cancer this past August.

You can't imagine how much more fulfilling it is to do something like this and give to those less fortunate or help out a local charity than to just shower everyone with more gifts they do not need! We have been doing this for several years now and we really enjoy it, except for the nasty money hands afterwards, but it is worth it!

Side Note on Nasty Money Hands: You would have thought I was scrubbing in for surgery if you saw me washing up afterwards...lol...

Another great costume.....

My Sister & Douglas..........Risky Business........

Don't you just love the Halloween season?

Halloween is GREAT. It is so much fun for the kiddies to get dressed up and trick or treat and all and the fun parties and such....but it is also a tremendous amount of fun and laughs to see the adults as well. This is the first in what I am sure will be several posts of costumes and Halloween fun.

Behold, Captain America, also known as Danny Sasser, my cousin Christie's boyfriend....I just LOVE this!!!!