Our Christmas Recap!

Here's a quick view of our Christmas. We have to split the night between families on Christmas Eve. While my family (Catholic) is at church...we hit the Hudgins side of the family and eat dinner with all of them! FYI, I only take pictures of me/my family side stuff just for private purposes. Anyways, so at 8:30pm we meet at my parents house. Since we moved to TN my mom ONLY cooks this dinner on Christmas eve. We eat very non traditional, shrimp, crab, hor d'oeuvres, my mom's famous pizza dip, finger foods and sweets! Then, we open presents! My parents go overboard on Christmas and are extremely giving! We get everything we want/need/and then some!




Just a funny...this stool was made for me (by Sister Sarah) in 2000 and my mom uses it to put stuff in the stockings every year.


inside joke with the boys

Look at Solomon...he just has to be on someones lap!
Ha- Steven isn't near as happy as I am about getting all the Pier One Import pillows (as previously seen in other posts).
So, after midnight on Christmas Eve we head home...

We wake up Christmas morning at our house. Zane....checking out the morning snow.

Steven slept in and then made his wonderful sausage balls for breakfast.
Since we have a huge Christmas with our family we just did stocking stuffers-small stuff for one another. I made him some "night deer prints" for the office. His favorite color is blue and these are actually painted on newspaper so they are neat. I painted the little one on the left.

He also got a magazine subscription.

Our BIG gift was a 50 inch flat screen 79808069594934 HGTV, Hertz, High def, whatever it's called for our bonus room.


He spent the day hooking up the DVD player, awesome surround sound and fixing the color. We're excited to spend time in this room....lounging!!
He gave me a pedicure, sweet card, and even Zanie Wanie wrote me a letter! After Christmas morning at home we're off again!
We headed to Murfreesboro to the other H side of the family for Christmas dinner. We also came home and watched Funny People with Adam Sandler. FYI, it's not funny!
Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas with your families! I may or may not write about all our fabulous gifts later!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

How quickly things can change in a year!

Almost 1 year ago we were in Knoxville for girls' weekend. We always eat at Panera bread before we hit the road. This year, the picture will be A LOT different. Why? Because as soon as we left Knoxville Natalie found out she was pregnant! Little Nolan was born in October! Over the weekend, Ootie- a.k.a. Beth called Sarah and me to inform us that she was expecting a little one in July! This means our normal picture of 4 girls will be the 4 of us, baby Nolan and the "gummy bear" as Beth referred to her baby. Our next girls' weekend in Knoxville is in January-I'm excited!

Totally rent worthy!

I think I'm a pretty cool chick because I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE a good action, thriller, scary, or adventurous movie. Last night we watched SALT with Angelina Jolie. I loved it! It was totally entertaining with lots of twists and action. Rent it, it's totally worth it.


I can't wait to see this movie....have you seen it?

Sister, Sister!

My sister came to visit for 2 1/2 days. We used our time wisely and hit downtown Franklin for the shops and antiques and ate at Dumplin's--yum! We also shopping all of Green Hills, Trader Joe's, the outside mall area, Homegoods, REI--all in a day!

Cute sock monkey tree downtown Franklin...reminds me of someone!

We both scooped up this super cute coral cardigan. This is a great color for gals with dark hair like us.
We met a blog/friend.... you see Sarah and I went to college with MJ and he is getting married to the wonderful Ali. We figured we should meet Ali especially since we've all read each others blogs for almost a year! So, we hooked up at Chuy's!


We had lots of fun meeting Ali....and hopefully we can get together with the hubs sometime!

"Recognize, I'm back!"

We've been counting down the days until she returned.....

Mary couldn't take it anymore! Our Llama lovin' crazy gal is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!

Welcome back friend! We've missed you!

The Fun Tree vs. The Family Tree

The fun tree a.k.a. the 5 ft. fiber optic white tree with white lights! It's at the top of the stair landing. It's full of vibrant color--turquoise, lime, hot pink, sparkles and wispy garland.

Look at Punky....snuggled by the tree. He drags his blanket around.

This is our family tree. It's an 8 ft. thick bruce pine ( I think). It's red, gold, silver and white. I grew up with commemoration ornaments. That means for each year you get an ornament for something you did during the year. My parents tree is full of our ornaments so I wanted to start that tradition too and do this for my future kids. Of course, we don't have that many because I want them to match the color scheme but these are a few: This is my German Genobel tree topper. My parents have had theirs for almost 36 years! I didn't want an angel or star I wanted to follow this tradition since I am half German.

buying our first house

married

Zane