WARNING: Long Post Ahead!

Unfortunately I have to start off with sad news! Actress Brittany Murphey has died at 32! It is a sad day for all of her family and friends and the ones that loved watching her act! I remember watching Brittany in Clueless, Uptown Girls, and her small role on the TV show Sister Sister! I pray for all of her friends and family during this difficult time.

Now on to a happier note, Friday night Heath and I along with my parents went to look at Christmas lights! We ate at a delicious BBQ place and then headed to the lights! It was a lot of fun looking at the pretty lights. We started at the drive thru light display and ended up at the state capitol!

The manger at the State Capitol!

Saturday night we went to a family Christmas party. We play the white elephant exchange and all of the kids draw each others name! It was a lot of fun spending time with family! I ended up coming away with a dvd holder and some gloves! Heath ended up with some towels(ha)!

He hates pictures!

Sunday I sang in our church Christmas cantata and enjoyed celebrating my Aunt and my cousin's birthday that afternoon! For the evening service the children put on their Christmas play and it was very cute! All in all it was a busy but GREAT weekend! Now I have to relax till Wednesday when more Christmas festivities start :)

Snuggie-less

Here is my sweet baby girl Holli! As you can see she doesn't have much hair so she gets cold on these chilly mornings and nights. Holli has a t-shirt she wears now that says naughty and nice....., but thats a Christmas shirt. Whatever will she do after Christmas? Her Razorback shirt is too big now that she had her hair cut sooo for Christmas Holli would like this:

Yep, that's right a snuggie! I mean why wouldn't she want one they are soo instyle now and she just shakes and shivers in the early mornings! So the snuggie is perfect for her! HMMMM...... maybe while I'm finishing my Christmas shopping tomorrow Holli will get one of these snuggies for Christmas from Santa! Guess she will have to wait till Christmas to find out!!

Christmas Fun

I found this on another blog and since I haven't uploaded pictures from Tuesday yet I thought I would do this for my Thursday blog post!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I use mostly wrapping paper because I love opening wrapped gifts but sometimes I will stick a small exchange gift in a gift bag!

2. Real tree or Artificial? Fake, I'm allergic to real trees :(

3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving!

4. When do you take the tree down? Usually around New Years Day!

5. Do you like eggnog? Nope!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? That's a tough one! I'm gonna have to say my Toby the terrior, I loved playing with him and watching the movie that he interacted with!

7. Hardest person to buy for? My Brother.

8. Easiest person to buy for? My Mom!

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Since this is our first married Christmas together and our first Christmas living together no, but I want one!

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, e-mail just isn't the same!

11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't think there has been a really bad one except for when doing the exchange gifts like white elephant!

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? There's no way I can pick just one but I'm gonna have to go with Miracle on 34th Street!

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? The day after Thanksgiving!

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Nope I've been good ha!

15.Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? I love all the Christmas food! It's always soo yummy!!

16. Lights on the tree? We have a pre-lit tree and the lights are all white!

17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh I could never pick just one! My top favorites are Sleigh Ride, O Holy Night, Carol of the Bells, Winter Wonderland, and I'll be Home for Christmas!

18.Travel at Christmas or stay home? Most of our family is close by so we travel to their houses but pretty much we are home!

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes! Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and does Rudoph count?

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star but right now we have nothing!

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Well, we open with Heath's parents on Christmas Eve and then with my parents on Christmas morning!

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Scrooge's and people not remembering why we celebrate Christmas!

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love all of our ornaments but the colors are red, white, silver, and green!

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Anything!

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Just clothes!

26. Have you ever been caroling? Yes, I have been with my church quite a few times!

I hope you enjoyed learning about my Christmas traditions! Feel free to take it for your blog as well!

OUR CHRiSTMAS PiCTURES

My cousin took our Christmas pictures Sunday afternoon and I think they turned out really good! Here are a few of my favorites:

I will post our Christmas card when I get them in!! Hope you liked them!

LET IT SNOW/CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

First of all I would like to thank a sweet bloggy friend, Amy over at Just Add Walter for helping me put SNOW on my blog! Did you notice it? Look towards the top and the sides and you will see WHITE SNOW!! So Thanks Amy for your help!

This past weekend was kind of a slow weekend actually! Friday and Saturday night we stayed home and watched movies. Sunday we had a HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS party in the Sunday School class I help teach! They are soo cute we decorated small birthday cakes ( cupcakes), read the real story of Christmas, read the legend of the Candy Cane, and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus! They each had Happy Birthday party hats and those little Happy Birthday blowers! Of course they went away with birthday goodie bags mostly filled with tons of candy! We also gave out our class christmas presents then too! I gave them a candy cane I had made to look like a reindeer and some hershey kisses along with the legend of the candy cane story! I can't leave out that I also got a present!! I got the most adorable snowman coffee cup filled with tons of candy canes! It was really nice! They all seemed to have a GREAT time and they were just adorable celebrating Jesus' birthday!!

RECORDING UPDATE!

I have realized that since I have been so busy lately that I haven't updated my bloggy friends about my singing career lately! So here it goes:

Things are going really good at the recording studio now that I am finally well from being sick for about two months! My voice is still improving and getting stronger. I haven't recorded a new song lately as we have been working on making my voice stronger! I am working on writing my own songs still and haven't had much luck lately, I guess it's writers block! Everything is going really good and it is still the highlight of my week to go to the recording studio! Hopefully things will continue to go good and I will have my demo soon! EEEKKKK I can't wait! That's about it for now! I'll try to go back to updating you sooner I just don't have much to discuss about it some weeks! (HA yeah right!)

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas.......

I am finally getting to post our Christmas decoration pictures! I just love Christmas time and all the beautiful decorations that everyone has! So here are our's!

Our First Christmas Tree! I hope to have more than one eventually but for now this is it! It's decorated in Razorback ornaments (we're big fans), red, white, and green balls, and some other small decorations!!

Here is our Razorback!! Woo Pig Sooie!!

Our "H" Ornament!

Our Razorback plate!

Norman the Razorback Santa Gnome!

Hope you enjoyed my little tour!