Christmas Day 2010

 Christmas Morning

Everyone enjoying their gifts.

Christmas Afternoon

 Roasting dogs and mellows for the first time over the unfinished fire pit.

Afterwards we enjoyed talking with Nick!!!! 

Christmas Night 

Fun in the Music Studio!

A friendly game of Settlers.

Christmas Eve

 A beautiful first Christmas Eve with baby Bennett! 

 Some of the things we enjoyed this year.

Fried Chicken made by Darren

Key Lime Pie

James visiting from Fort Benning

Traditional Christmas P.J's

Luke 2 read by Benjamin

"The Grinch" in the theater

Everyone being Santa's helpers

The chairs

Thursday Update

Just busy enjoying being a new Grandma!

It's Official we are Grandparents!

We feel so very blessed to have our beautiful Grandson home healthy. He had a little longer stay at the hospital then anticipated but had very good care.

He was born on Dec. 2nd at 10:44 am 

He weighed 8lb 14oz

He is 21 inches tall

Lots of black hair

Long fingers and toes

 Grandpa Johnson & Bennett

All cozy in his swaddle blanket on his Daddy's lap.

This is almost the best day ever, his birthday was The best day ever!

Thanksgiving Day 2010

I am so very grateful that we had the most beautiful fall day to enjoy together!

We are grateful for bounteous blessings each day!

We spent a lot of time outside and had a wonderful Turkey dinner together.

Going to great heights to get this cleaning done!

When you have 3 stories (not the kind you read) you have to go to great lengths I mean heights to get them clean! 

First sign of spring!

This has truly been a long winter for us here in Summerville! We are usually on the upper end of the thermometer nation wide but not this winter. The south has been as much as 20 degree's below average. So when the sun came out and it was warm enough to spend more then 5 min outside yesterday, I found a sign of spring in our yard!!! I just had to share this hoping it brings hope to you as well.

Winter Wonderland for today!

So Darren pulled in around 12:45 PM safe and sound. Yes I was still awake. He left to drop a few of the boy's off so the parents did not have to drive in the snow. The electricity went off for the second time and I was not sure if he would be able to get back in. Turns out he left the garage door opened but that meant he had to unhook it from the opener to close it. So around 1:30AM he came upstairs and fell into bed. I woke up this morning around 5:30 and realized that sometime during the night the electricity had gone back on, I turned off a light or two we forgot about and stopped the alarm time from blinking. I looked out the window and could see that everything was blanketed in snow!!! It was cold and so I got right back under my warm blankets until 7:30 when Ben and Jacquie showed up at our door:) We watched Rusty and Kirra slide down the front stairs as they attempted to go explore the white wonderland. I threw a few snow balls at Ben and Darren after Jacquie left for work. We then made a huge snowman snowbear, my camera battery died so I will have to get a picture from Ben.

Here are a few more pictures of our southern style Winter Wonderland.

Jacquie on her way to work.

Fresh snow

Can you find Rusty in the snow covered woods? Rusty and Kirra checking out the snow!

Our home covered in snow, the palms don't look very tropical with snow weighing them down.

Thanks for looking at all my pictures. Maybe in another 20 years I will have a new snow post to share. 

Snow in Summerville!

I realize that for those that live in the Mountain West or North East this may seem silly. When we moved here 4 years ago we were told that it snows here about every 15 years. I found that hard to believe the first winter we had here. We wore flip flops all winter long and never put on a coat!!! Well last winter I think I saw one flurry. People thought it had snowed when it was cold enough for frost to accumulate on the roofs.  

But this is the most snow I have ever seen in Summerville!!

These are the big heavy wet type snow flakes, they are sticking to the stairs and rails.

Just a coincidence that Darren took a van load of Y.M. to North Carolina to ski today.

I sure hope our tropical palms make it thru this crazy winter weather!