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Friends, I didn't upload the vidjo on the previous post cuz it was takin too stinkin long to do... I'll do it sometime another.


Til then
peace and a bottle of hair grease

My gift to you

Some bloggers may be gettin' all serious and what not today, and that's fine. It is the day we set aside to celebrate the birth of the Christ child. We attended church this morning, sung some Christmas tunes and heard a Christmas sermon.
But I'm shifting to my silly side and if ya know me, that's just how I roll.


Consider this my gift to you my loyal blog followers. I said I wouldn't share, but I'm the first to make fun of ME so .... remember the ugly sweater party? I had to dance an Irish jig while singing The Wheels on the Bus. This is just a snipit of my performance. 


Hope it doesn't go viral....

Enjoy 

and have a 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This made me feel DUMB

My day started out with a bang.


I was of course excited that this was our last day of work until after Christmas. Can I get a woo hoo?


We were having a breakfast "staff meeting" at Cracker Barrel. Already had my mind on cinnamon streusel french toast.


And then there was the other 15 things on my mental to do list runnin through my head.


I went out to the garage and opened the garage door for my bay, as usual.


As I opened my car door, I realized Anthony and I were swapping cars for the day. So I shut the door and went over to his car and plopped right on in.


Smartly I had put my friends' gifts in the car the night before so all I had to do was put my purse and myself in the car and then I'd be ret to go.


Eyeglasses on, switch the radio to 92.9 and off the CD Anthony had apparently been enjoying. Gotta hear my Christmas tunes yall. 


Reverse.


Bang!!!


Loud scream, followed by panic, chased by the thought "did that just happen or am I dreaming, what do I do, oh crap etc."


Yep, it's what you're thinkin Lincoln. I skipped a step. A very important step. Opening the garage door.


Now don't you feel better about yourself? Bet you've never done that before, have ya?

Our first time at the local parade

We built our house in '07 so we've been residents of this little community a while. But we've never been to their parade. It may be smaller than the one "in town" but we hear it's better.


Back when Anthony's grandmother was alive, she always went with Anthony's mom. Her sister is still alive and she went with us...she's a spry 85

We went to the parade in part because of this little race car driver. . . 

Even though he was concentrating on driving, he took the time to wish me a happy birthday. Sweet boy.

The grand marshall of the parade was the man who sold us our land that we built our house on. His name is Brownie (not sure if that's a nickname).

Y'all know I ain't a dog person, but these little guys were too cute.

Mini horses with mini cowgirls

 Mini diesels (these were sooo cute)

 Thank goodness for firemen !

Joey & Bryson rode their four wheelers. This was Bry's debut on McKenzie's four wheeler. He seemed to do fine, but I could tell 
he was concentrating hard! 

 McKenzie was all smiles with her Pa tossing out candy

I'm sure Jen couldn't be in the parade because SHE'S WITH CHILD...lol 
It limits her.

There were lots of old cars and trucks in the parade. Even some tractors. A few Gators and the usual horses. Some with wagons and carriages, and 

some ..... 

with ......

 Overalls and sunglasses... 

funniest thing I saw 

Probably  be even funnier to see em 
puttin the doggone overalls on the poor horse

Santa was lookin niiiice ! 

Do it Santa.

We loved the parade and we love you!

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party 2011

Until a few weeks ago I had never heard of an ugly Christmas sweater party. How bout you?
Apparently they're becoming "a thing."
Here is our rowdy crew and our "we put the UG in ugly" sweaters. . . . 
and since I'm a pretty silly girl and it was a pretty silly-icious night, I'm starting this photo tour with a silly pic. 
                Deal with it.

 Crazy times!

Our hostess with the mostest

Brandi is the only person I know who can pull off a full sweater ensemble such as this and look so dang cute. Geez, if I didn't LOVE HER so much I'd hate her. bahaha

 Ang showing off her tree...er, shirt

She bought that shirt last year after Chrimu. 
You were wrong for that Ang. W-R-O-N-G

She won a prize for best (worst) sweater.

Jenny and her daughter were headed to another ugly sweater party so they dined and dashed. They found these treasures at the Goodwill. 
Gotta love the Goodwill. And you gotta wonder who thought lace would make a good snowman... and puff paint all over the pants, really? On the back of one leg, someone with good penmanship wrote Let it snow. Apparently they wanted it to snow on their overalls.

Tonyia improvised and did a lil sewing. One ornament casualty happened in the car on the ride over when she turned the steering wheel kinda sharp Oops easy now. 
And Cin admits she probably wore the Snoopy sweater a few years ago and would still be wearin' him if we wouldn't ride her like Sea Biscuit about it. We keep it real like that. Can't be having our peeps rollin' up in work lookin' a hot mess. 

The pants - another Goodwill find. 

She won a prize for best accessories. She had stuff pinned and poked all over.

Lemme explain this pic of me - 
this is how you look when you're playing a game and the card you draw says: Dance an Irish jig while singing The Wheels on the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round. 


Have I mentioned Lyndy doesn't dance? 


But Lyndy is very competitive, so bump modesty and any sliver of pride. Dance we shall.

I barely got the words out while laughing hysterically and dancing horribly. 


My dear friend Brandi has a fancy dancy camera that I forgot takes VIDEO. And yes, she recorded me without my permission of course but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it yet. And don't be lookin' for it on this blog any time soon.  

I won BEST ENSEMBLE 

When I was getting dressed Anthony said, I didn't think it was a Halloween party.

Pretty sure he was glad it was a girls only event.

Brandi actually loaned me the sweater. My skirt was a Goodwill find and the leggings you will remember from my bird in a cage costume circa October 31. Had the snowman socks and red shoes already, and my mom supplied the Santa football necklace and crocheted Santa pin. The red snowflake in my hair is courtesy of a lovely Bath & Body Works package. lol 


Notice Jenny's black bar shades (think back page of Glamour)... we all needed a pair 

Here's hopin' this becomes an annual event. 

Today is a SPECIAL DAY

It's my birthday today. For about another hour I'm entitled to celebrate. So don't try to stop me. 


I got up this morning and took a shower, like every day. And Tinsley curled up on the bath mat whilest I donned my makeup and floofed my hair. She's been doin that a lot lately.

We had Christmas breakfast with some of Anthony's fam. I'll post pics later. 

Anthony gave me the newest Kelly Clarkson CD and Taylor Swift's latest. And some M&Ms. After all, what's a birthday without some sweets? And speakin of sweets, he gave me a sweet card. I'd type the text here but it might embarrass him. 


We try to keep the birthdays pretty low key (his is Thanksgiving and mine's so close to Christmas) and just do a small gift or two and dinner out. I'm easy to please.


We went to the local parade this afternoon. A certain sweetie pie (ahem Riley) was in it. I'll obviously post pics of that later, too.  


When we got back I ran 2 miles in 20 minutes. It was brrr cold! ! !

We had dinner with friends to round out the birthday celebration.

When ya have a birthday the week before Christmas there's bound to be some blending.

On the way home we drove through some neighborhoods with lotsa Christmas lights. One place even had a train - Riley loved that! Shoot, so did we! 

Anyhooooo....Blessed to have another year here.

what a HANDSOME birthday boy

Somebody's havin' a birthday today .... 
what a cutie pie he is!  

He's getting so grown up looking now... so tall he's grown this year

We went to his game last night and he did great! They won in overtime. Cullen hit at least one three-pointer. He had his toe on the line a couple times or he'd have had more threes. I think he had about 18 points and several good assists. It was a great game to watch. I might be a smidge hoarse from hollering...

Happy 14th birthday Cu Cu ~

let the birthday celebrations begin

My birthday is comin' up this weekend and today my work peeps took me to a local BBQ joint for lunch.

These two gals are the funniest NUTs you ever been around. Love em, love em!

The taller NUT above is an awesome cook. She's 'specially great at 
D-E-S-S-E-R-T !

Strawberry Semifreddo Shortcake

If the internet had taste buds, they'd be watering somethin' fierce. Southern Living wasn't joshin' when they said "parlor perfect ice cream cake." I'm in their corner on this one. 


If you wanna try to make it for me here's how - click & make me.


It has ice cream in it, sorbet, pureed strawberries, lady fingers & some other sweet ingredients. Mmm d to the lish, ya hear me?!


Glad to have these sweet ladies as coworkers and friends. Also glad the birthday celebratin' has begun tee hee

News on the technology front

Indeed we did.

In the comfort of my pjs Thanksgiving night, circa 12:05 Lyndy went to a little place called the world wide web and purchased our household a lovely little high tech fancy dancy laptop. 

This was one of my teasers from the previous blog post. Wasn't it worth the wait?!

Yeah, we're doin big thangs.

We think we're pretty much the last people on the planet to get a laptop. And just to keep it real so you folks don't get the notion we are high fallutin the ole desktop computer was on its last leg, it had been saved once by our good friend B dubs and acted crazy more often than not of late. 

And I'm here to tell ya, you can just bury me 6 feet under if I ever lose all my pics. No bed of roses or satin needed...

And I did the nasty task this weekend - burned pics to DVDs and put em in the fire proof safe. Took sorta forever, but it had to be done.

So anyway... now, when ya read this here blog you can picture me somethin like this - - 

a little somethin-somethin and teasers

First and foremost, I sit here at this computer SO EARLY cuz I forgot we have our church services at 11 now steda 10. Shoot! Could-be-sleeping-now.

Oh well, my Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal makes up for it a little and I was able to catch up on my blogging buddies whilest sittin here.

Friday night we had a Christmas dinner to go to for Anthony's work. The food was delish. I ate a big ole steak. Somebody told me it takes three days to digest red meat. Ew, guess that'll be hangin out in my bod til Tuesday or so, huh? I know...gross.

Yesterday my mom and I went Christmas shopping. Gorgeous unseasonably warm day and we got a lot done! We're both very close to being finished. Yay! Have I mentioned I LOVE MY MOMMA and going shopping with her is pretty dang cool? Well now I have. So now you know.

The other day my mother-in-law gave us a treat. More on that later.

We got ourselves a little treat on Black Friday (online). More on that later, too. Cuz I know inquiring minds gotta know.

Now I'm off to decide what to wear for church. Is it a pants day cuz it's supposed to rain? Or is it a skirt or dress day since I took the time to shave my legs? Decisions, decisions...