Christmas Day 2008

Another beautiful Christmas day in South Carolina! We made our traditional trip to the beach, only this year there were a lot of people on the beach because it was such a beautiful day! Yes there were some in the water, they had wetsuits on though.

The pier at Folly Beach was closed today.

Sandman wishing you a Merry Christmas from Folly Beach, South Carolina!

These two are good!!!!

Tennis anyone? Barefoot Tennis anyone?

Most of us received Tennis racket's for Christmas from Santa. We stopped at the courts on our way home to play with them.

The Eve of Christmas

Our family would like to wish you a very "Merry Christmas" we hope that you are all safe and warm. May we all remember the Spirit of Christmas this day and through out the coming year!




Time for the traditional Christmas eve gift opening:)

Nick got P.J's

Jacquie get's P.J's!

Ben get's you guessed it P.J's!!!

You guessed:0)

Oh wait those are not P.J's they are slippers!

Elegant Word Art.

I was looking for something fun for the New YM/YW 2009 theme and found this blog with fantastic word art featuring the new theme. I thought you might want to check it out too!

http://elegantwordart2.blogspot.com/2008/09/example.html

Did You Feel That?

It has been well over four years since we have felt one of these!!!!!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/N_America.php

That's right I remember now what it is like being shaken out of bed, so to speak. This was mild in comparison to what we have experienced in the past and gladly so! It is fitting though as this year has been such a year of shake rattle and rolling in a lot of areas of our lives! Don't forget to Hug your loved ones more today!!!!

Reflections of Christ

One of my good friends and fellow blogger sent this link to me today. I was so touched by these that I would like to share this with you. It is a 5 min presentation and you may want to explore the other offerings the sight has to offer.

http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/2008/03/reflections-sli.html

Thanksgiving 2008

Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours!

We enjoyed a delicious dinner made by everyone. Darren did a wonderful job on the meats! He and Nick played a bit of Turkey bowl before returning home to check on the meat. Jacquie did a fantastic job with the rolls, fruit and sweet potatoes! Nick set a really cool table and Ben helped direct traffic;) We hope that you and your families had plenty to eat and stayed warm and cozy this Thanksgiving!

I am so grateful for each of you, thanks for making our lives more full this year!

Crazy Eights Style

I was tagged again!

8 favorite T.V. Shows

1. Designers Challenge

2. Extreme Homes

3. Designed to Sell

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8 favorite restaurants

1. California Dreamin' (Best Crescent rolls)

2. Pico's

3. Chili's

4. Oscars (Best Sauteed Mushrooms)

5. The noisy Oyster (Best Key Lime Pie)

6. Charleston Crab House (Best Hush puppies)

7. Jack's Place

8. What ever I am in the mood for at the time:)

8 things I did today

1. Got out of bed

2. Showered and fixed hair

3. Made a warm breakfast

4. Took dogs out

5. Read e-mail

6. Decided which cookies to make for SED tomorrow

7. I'm doing this silly tag for our blog

8. Going to type talk for YW Sacrament tomorrow as soon as finished with this silly tag.

8 things love about fall

1. Pumpkins

2. warm day's (which have all but disappeared this year)

3. Everyone is back in school!

4. Fire's in the fireplace.

5. Homemade Bread:)

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8 things wish for

1. A re-election

2. That Congress will stick to their guns on the non distribution to the money wasters!

3. Tax relief for the honest!

4. An early spring!

5. Summer:)

6. Our rental house to sell;)

7. New running shoes

8. If it has to be cold then let it snow***

8 things I look forward to...

1. Nick finishing his last 2 classes

2. Thanksgiving

3. Christmas

4. A new year

5. Warm weather again!

6. Sunday afternoon naps:)

7. Youth Temple trips

8. Reading your Crazy Eights!

I tag: Jacquie Johnson, Darla Davila, Shalisa Bingham, Rachel Pennington, Lauren Pennington, Liz Kewish, Deanne Sharp, Ari Riordan

Birthday Fun

Happy Birthday Ben!

Ben woke up with a terrible cough and cold:(
He made the best of it though and enjoyed all of our plans to make his day special.

Jacquie and I made Stake Fajitas for lunch.

After a yummy lunch Ben opened his many gifts.

After trying out all his golf equipment we got ready for the evening. You will have to ask Ben what happened on his birthday evening before we left to go see Trans Siberian Orchestra next time you see him.


We all loved the Concert! Another great Show by TSO

Another beautiful evening at the beach!

We like to head to the beach in the late afternoon when we finish our work for the day! Today was the perfect day for just that!

Family fun and games on the beach!

Benjamin's Sweetheart!
Such a handsome husband and father!

Surfers like to use these paddle boards when the waves are small to help build arm and leg muscles.

Fall evenings on the beach are fairly warm and uncrowded here in SC!
As the sun set beyond the Marsh we decided it was time to feed our hunger and headed into Charleston for some fresh seafood!

"Wicked"

A few months ago I was asked if I would be interested in going on a weekend trip to see the Musical "Wicked" with a group of girl's from church. I definitely was and thought Jacquie would be too! So we left for Atlanta on Halloween and after a 5 hr. drive stayed the night at a very nice Hyatt place in Lithonia, Georgia about 30min. outside of Atlanta. We arrived early at the Fox theater in Atlanta, so we could get some pictures and look around the famous theater.

At 11:00pm we finally were ordering dinner at Ruby Tuesday's.
Anne, Myself and Jacquie
Jessa, Kathy and Kamilla


Jacquie checking out the directions to Atlanta!

The set trailer! The groupie's What cute girlie's
Soaking up some southern sun!Peachtree St. Atlanta, GeorgiaCaroline and High School Musical 2 coming soon to Atlanta!
Kamilla
The Fabulous Fox Theater Marquee.
Jacquie is ready with her ticket, our seats are in orch left row kk!

The Fox Theater is a fully restored 1929 "Movie Palace". It seats 4,678 and you can catch a broadway show, the ballet, symphony, concerts and movies there. I heard a rumor that the debut of "Gone with the wind" was shown here.