Christmas recap!!

I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone!!!

It all happened so soon and ended so fast :(

I enjoyed all of the family time, minus all the stress.

{Days Leading Up to Christmas}






My girls know me so well!! We went to eat at our fav. Mexican resuraunt and Marina got me a cute pair of snake skin heels and acute ring and Kacey got me the cute sweater I'm wearing below and a really cute scarf :) Then a couple days later I got some cute jewelry and some hard candy makeup that I love from Morgan.

I was so excited to see my sister and her husband when they came on Wednesday because I got to see the cutest boy ever. Well to me atleast. :) Steven met them and followed them here and I was soo happy to see him. While my sister, mom, and me cooked the guys went out and we went and picked them up later. My sister and I even made a fun trip into walmart for a air pump to air up stevens bed and one of the sales dudes asked my sister if he could have my number. Before we could leave he was texting me. Needless to say I didn't reply! I'm mean I know, but he was creapy. Then we introduced those "White Castle" loving boys to some yummy Krystal's. They swore they wouldn't be better, but they got fooled and fell in love!!

Thursday was a day full of last minute shopping and cooking!! It was pure craziness!!

Then on Christmas Eve those silly boys decied to chop up a tree that my dad had cut down while we finished cooking last minute goodies! They were in heaven. They enjoyed their playtime and we started calling them the northern hillbillies. Then on Christmas eve night we headed to my grandparents for my mom's side of the families Christmas get together. We had yummy food and swapped presents. Of course everybody thought Steven was with me because he stayed by my side most of the time and picked on me/flirted the whole time. It was really fun except for the ride home when my sister and me told the guys about the haunted 7 churches we had to pass by and when we stopped at the stop sign to turn the opposite direction of the plantation with the haunted seven churches steven opened the door and I practically broke his arm off clinging to him for him to shut the door. My sister and me were screaming bloody murder!! Then we came home and did the whole Santa thing.

{Christmas eve}




{Christmas Day}

{Bradley's Christmas PJ's he got on Christmas Eve}

{His mama won't put anything on him but onesies}

{I even brought him some leg warmer's to put on him so he wouldn't freeze them poor chunky legs off, but she still won't put anything on him but them same old onesies he's been wearing for 3 months that he's def. outgrown..we even had to wait until they took a nap to put an outfit he got for Christmas on.poor baby has such cute, cute clothes that he doesn't even get to wear..REDICULOUS!!}

{And this little cute thought she was hot stuff with her new bike and new pullover}

{However, her mom does her the same way!! She got lots of new pants for Christmas and her mom took the big sister shirt that goes with the cutest pants ever and put it on her with some old pink leggings to wear out with that jacket into the freezing cold..I mean really. Her excuse was that they were a 3 and she tried them on her and they didnt fit, but we went and looked when they took her outside and they were at the bottom of the bucket they had packed all of their stuff in. The child is 3 and her mom still puts 6-9 months and stuff on her!! It's embarrassing, we always have to change her when we go somewhere..sorry for my ranting on these poor babies' clothes, but I just hate buying stuff for them that they never even get to wear because their mom wants to put the same ol stuff that is to small for them on!!}


{My sister and me}


{Yo girl, let me tell you something, real talk...slip me a piece of that red velvet cake}



Christmas day didn't realy go as planned. I was upset because I missed Vianne opening her presents because my brother and them apparently thought that I wouldn't care to see the kids open them..umm really? I atleast got to see Bradley open his but grr..I was aggrivated. Then after we finished opening presents my brother in law talked to his dad who told him that there was a really bad storm supposed to be hitting us here on the east coast and well steven knew he had to be at work the next day and well steven decided to go on home and just did get home as it was starting to snow. My grandparents came and had lunch with us and we all had a pretty lazy day.

I was kind of sad because yet again there was a LOT of flirting between Steven and me and it was like we were together and everybody thought we were, but yet again we didn't get anywhere. Maybe one day..Idk :(

Then on Sunday we picked up my sisters kids from their dad and had Christmas with them and then my sister and her husband went back home for a week so the kids could spend time with us. Last night we took all of the kids bowling for my brother's little girls birthday and they had a really good time.

We have to carry my brother back to Tampa tomorrow so he can go to the DR on Wednesday and hopefully as soon as we get back we can spend time with the kids and get the hose fixxed back up like it belongs!!!

Well, that was my Christmas, how was yours?

If you were going to be my BFF

Things you should know about me if you're going to be my bff:

I am 5'2.

I'm shorter than most everybody I know even with heels, except for my sister..she ended up being an ince shorter than me.

I have teeny tiny feet. I wear a 6 1/2 in most shoes because I have long toes and I have a tendency to get opened toed shoes, but unfortunately a lot of heels make my feet slide in them because my feet are skinny skinny..SCARY skinny..lol..well maybe not that extreme!

My toe nails can not NOT be painted! I just can't deal with that. I like for my fingernails to stay painted, but I often don't keep it on for long. It drives me crazy, but oh no, my toe nails just can not NOT be done. I'm not leaving the house or taking my socks off if they arent.

I absolutely hate grocery shopping. I loathe a grocery store. I love to cook and bake, but I absolutely can not stand to go to a grocery store and buy the stuff. I am going to have to find a hubby that likes going.

I can't sleep under the covers at hotels. I always take my own pillow and blankets. I rarely can do it at other peoples houses. Crazy I know, but it creaps me out!!! I promise I will wake up multiple times to make sure nothings crawling on me.

I brush my teeth in the shower!

I'm 11 and 9 years younger than my sister and brother.

I want a husband and a family so bad, but I secretly fear commitment.

I have a bar behind my front two teeth because the orthodontist messed up my teeth that never hada gap before. They created a 1 cm gap between my front two teeth and the only thing that would fix it was my retainer and I couldnt go even on night without it because the gap would come back, so I had to get a permanent retainer (little one inch bar) behind my front two teeth.

When I was little I played school with my dog. Everyone said I was going to be a school teacher and a mean one at that because I would put him in a chair or in my little wooden desk and read to him and dare him to move!

I can't stand mushrooms. YUCK!!!

I love to exercise and my weight drives me crazy!! I' secretely scared to ever get pregnant because I'm scared I will gain a ton!!

I love anything bright!!

Shoes make me extremely happy!!!

I love Carebears and Dora.

My hair has never been dyed in any way, but I' seriously wanting a new hairstyle.

I have two tattoos. I have "Pray" on my wrist and birds flying on my back left shoulder blade.

I've gotten quite a few pedicures in my life, but have never had my nails done, EVER!

I hate change, like moving, but I love to rearrange and change my hairstyles and stuff. I get bored easy!

I love to dance, especially in classes, like Zumba, but I physically can not dance in public. Maybe it's because I always have one friend that doesn't dance or either am not with my friends.

The only two cars I have ever owned have both been white Mustang convertables :)

I have IBS, Chrohn's disease, a super slow colon, and Endometreosis.

Growing up I only could go a week or two without being in a cast of some kind or on crutches or in the hospital. I broke my ribs, wrist multiple times, fingers, etc. Had fluid upunder my knees and hips. Had all kinds of motility tests and surgeries done growing up. Everybody thought I was always faking because I was always sick.

I missed my junior and senior year because of being sick and not being able to sit at school for my classes, so a teacher came out to my house from the school and taught me.

My best friend didn't even want to let me graduate!! I didn't know until the day before graduation if they were going to let me graduate or not. And then, I graduated with high honors and couldn't even sit on stage with the rest of the class with tere yellow ropes around their necks :(

I can not stand the noises some people make when they eat. It makes all the hairs on my body stand up! I can't even stand to hear myself eat chips because I'm afraid other people will get annoyed..lol

I hate my handwriting. I definately don't have a pretty signature and often never sign my name the same way twice..oops..lol


Alright well I hope I didn't scare any of my future BFF's away :)

OH HOLY MOLY!!!!!!

OH holy moly!!!

Christmas is in just a few short days!! HELP!!! I'm no where near ready!!!

I'm losing my mind here!

I'm now officially sick thanks to my lovely brother claiming it's hot every five minutes. "You see what had happened was" my brother had surgery and the medicine they put him on makes him hot and itch. Well we keep telling him that we are all freezing and I'm assuming he forgets or he just doesnt care, so it's cold outside, but it's even colder inside. I have a full blown cold along with my niece and nephew and not to mention it's the week of Christmas!!!

Geez!!

And I have been bust busy waiting on them hand and foot and all these full blown meals they have to have three times a day and the complaining about what they like and dont like has clearly got on my last nerve.

I haven't even started cooking my candies yet..I take that back, I did start the peanut butter balls last night at 12 oclock and before we could finish them, they were waking up and running into the kitchen and stealing them. They will get a tin of the yummy goodies when we finish and there will be some put out for them to eat, but they don't have to eat them all before we can finish. They just don't care.

This is the most miserable Christmas I have ever had and I was here hoping it would be amazing because "that guy" was coming down with my sister and her husband for Christmas. What was I thinkng? By the time he gets here I probably won't even have a voice or be able to get out of bed.

I'm pumping myself with medicine, but I'm surely not doing anything for my stress level.

Hello wrinkles from Christmas 2010!!!

This Christmas..I'm in need of some yummy food!!!

What are you making for Christmas?

I know that I will be making my usual candies (peanut butter balls, candied pecans, chocolate covered pretzels, etc.) for the tins and for trays to take to my Grandmas on Christmas Eve and I planned on making a chocolate mayonaise cake with peppermint icing, a choc chip cheese ball/dip, and my decorated sugar cookies.

But, I also have to make a pile of desserts for my family staying at my house for the holidays and for everybody coming over Christmas day. I have to make two red velvet cakes because they make hash of those and have begged me to make them, but I'm at a stand still for anything else to make to go with it this year. Any suggestions?

What is your fav. Christmas dessert and what are you making this year?

I'm back!!!

Sorry I've been such a bad blogger. I had all of those finals to complete and then a trip to NC for my nephews birthday. Yesterday, my mom had to go to Tampa to be with my brother while he had surgery on both of his legs and I had to stay here to be with my dad at his hernia surgery. They ended up keeping my dad overnight and we finally made it home this morning. My grandad (mom's dad) came and sat with me until he got out of surgery and he got to see him. My dad's dad wouldn't even come..hmm. Anyways my brother had hi surgery and was able to go home and now my mom is on her way home with him and his wife and kids. His wife hasn't learned to drive yet so my mom had to be with them and had to bring him here so that he will be here for Christmas. They seem to be doing soo much better.

On another note, I passed ALL of my classes!! YAY!!!!

And it's only 10 days until Christmas and eight until I get to see that guy I've been waiting so patiently to see :)

And just to get back into my regular posting, here is..

{one} did you buy a christmas tree this year?
nope, we used two of our artificial christmas trees this year.

{two} what is your favorite holiday tradition?
i LOVE christmas eve. my mom's side of the family gets together and celebrates with yummy food and we all open presents. We usually draw names around my moms birthday in September so wehave long enough to find the pefect gifts for each other.

{three} do you open your gifts on christmas eve or christmas day?
both..we open presents at my grandparents on christmas eve and at my moms house on Christmas day.

{four} at what age did you stop believing in santa claus?
hmm not sure, I remember not believing at like ten and then one night I heard something on the roof and swore it was santa claus so I believed for a few more years..lol

{five} do you fill stockings?
my mom always fills our stockings with yummy candy, beauty supplies, and cute little odds and ends.

{six} handmade presents or store bought presents?
hmm. there’s a time for both i think. for instance my mom and I make tins of candy every year for christmas for everybody, but we also give store brought presents also.


{seven} do you have a favorite christmas meal?
my mom's dressing because we get my grandma's dressing at Thanksgiving and hers is more bready and my mom make's my granny's recipe with has chicken in it :)

{eight} is your christmas tree real or artificial?
sometimes we do one of both, but this year we did two artificial.

{nine} what is your favorite christmas song?
my current fav. is this one:


{ten} did you send out christmas cards this year?
nope, but I wanted to. :(

MIA

I'm sorry I have been missing lately. I have been busy, busy taking finals and studyin for finals! I promise I will be back with lots and lots of posts as soon as I finish with classes and make my good grades! Pray for me..lol. I need it in my A & P class..lol.

What I'm Loving Wednesday!!

It's Wednesday!!!YAY :) Which means it's time to link up with Jamie for "What I'm Loving Wednesday :)


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This little cute booger :)

3. The fact that we have both of our trees up and all the decorations out :) (I can't get a good pic of either one though)

4. It's DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. I get to see my oldest niece and nephew in a few weeks :) I've missed them!

6. I did really good on my last A & P test today before the final!

What are you loving today?