Core Group Christmas Party

On December 11th, our Core Group Party was at the Cosby's house. We had a great time hanging out with everyone. Dirty Santa was a lot of fun and Scattergories was full of laughs and ummm.... words that some had never even heard of.

Most of the girls

The Guys hanging out



Lillian was looking for her gifts

John unwrapping his bricks aka Lottery Tickets for about $5.oo

Mike will look so cute wearing that scarf

Ashley and Shaun thanks for such a great night and meal. You did a
wonderful job and we had a great time.

GO PITT!!

On Saturday, my parents had another gathering for the Pitt/North Carolina game. Some of my cousins came over for us to cheer Pitt onto a victory. It was a heart stopping game at moments. Pitt ended up winning 19-17.

Olivia showing Aimee her new DS game.

The finished product of Aimee and Olivia playing with kinex

The whole Gang
b: Nathan, Brother Rich, Danny
m: Ronzo, Cynders, Cookie, Tanis, Terrance
f: me, Aimee, Olivia, and Marcus (sporting his Alabama shirt)


On Sunday everyone went out for Danny's 50th birthday. Paul and I had to missed it and wish that we could of been there to celebrate.
Happy Birthday Danny!!

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

.... and a Happy New Year!!!

Once again on a holiday Paul had to work so I headed to Pittsburgh to spend Christmas with my family. I had a good time and wish that Paul could of joined us. I love going home to see my parents, Cole, and eat. Not that I need to eat more but my mom is an awesome cook.

Cole chilling on the kitchen floor, he has such a hard life.

For Christmas, Paul and I got my dad a Newfoundland t-shirt and sticker (for his car). He loved it. My dad LOVES Cole and LOVED his Newfie gear. My mom got Sangria and a Pitcher from Madrid, from the oldest restaurant in the world. She loved it and even used it on Saturday. After opening presents (aka envelopes) were opened it was time to get ready for Church.

Friday morning my dad made his "Working man's breakfast", played Family Feud on the Wii, and then got ready for the rest of the family to come over.

Aimee and I before family started to arrive.
Vinny, mom, and Adam all sporting similar glasses

It was time for Dirty Santa fun and VP went first and got this Hello Kitty gum ball machine.
He tried to get rid of it and finally Aimee ended up with it.

Larry and Nathan with their Christmas gear.

Aimee, Nathan, Cole and Me

We have taken a picture with the 3 of us for the last few years at Christmas. (One day I'll post the others)

Mimi, Annette, Nathan, and me

My parents plus Cole

A whole lot of traveling

When I got my new job I knew I would have to travel some, B U T twice in a week was not what I was expecting! We were supposed to leave Wednesday night to go to DC but Tuesday at 4:00 I was told you leave in the morning your flights at 7:00. Short notice but I'm used to it from my flying days.

Wednesday was a very relaxing day. We did much of nothing, but talk about what to expect with work as Karissa would be leaving soon.

This was the view from the window in DC.

On Sunday we were off traveling again to Denver this time.

This was the view outside the hotel. It made me want to skip the meeting and go ski!

It was a short trip to Denver and we were both ready to get back to Birmingham. And who knows when the next business trip will be.......

GNO for Christmas

Our CG girls went to dinner at Leonardo's for our Christmas GNO. It was so fun to hang out with all of the girls and spend some quality time together. Thanks Ashley for organizing it all. Tarayn it was great to have you join us for the evening.

Our Group
Seated: Whitney, Jessa, Ashley, and Katie
Standing: Lori, Kristen, Amy, me, Rachel, Maghan, and Tarayn

Ornament Pary

This year Cortney hosted the Annual CG Ornament Party. It was such a good time to hang out with all of the girls.

Most of the CG Ladies

Crazy Girls!

A fight till the end

When it came time to come up with plans from Thanksgiving like always Paul had to work. I asked him what he wanted to do for the weekend and he wanted to go to the football game Friday. I hung out at home and Thursday night headed to Atalanta to pick up Paul and head towards Auburn to find a place to stay for the night. It just kinda happened that we ALWAYS end up at the Waffle House for dinner on a holiday. A few years ago we ate there Christmas Eve on the way back from Nashville after Paul had to work and now again on Thanksgiving.

But Friday was the M O S T important part of or weekend. This was my FIRST Iron Bowl Game and it was a blast. We arrived in Auburn a little later then expected but it was a great day with some great friends. Paul and I had planned on just tailgating with everyone and then stay at the tailgate and watch the game. Well everyone got or had tickets for the game and then SO were we.

It was a great game and for my first one I really enjoyed it. I'm glad Auburn showed up and gave Alabama a run for their money. (I know I am going to get a lot of crap for that from AL fans.)

Auburn ended up losing but it was still "IT'S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER, IT'S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN FAN!!"

IF YOU ARE AN ALABAMA FAN YOU MIGHT WANT TO STOP READING!

The below is an email that Paul received from one of his college friends and I thought it was pretty good.

The Tale of Iron Bowl Friday
It was a low key day. Alabama was suppose to dismantle Auburn. Their Heisman candidate had a national stage to take center spotlight. But something unexpected happened. Our tailgate was a fun morning. We hosted many Bama friends who came by. The food was fabulous, the music was toe tapping, and the weather was perfect. We went to our traditional "Tiger Walk" and cheered the team and coaches into the stadium- like gladiators into their arena knowing a hungry undefeated opponent was on the other side pacing and suiting up for a David and Goliath moment. But something unexpected happened. The sea of orange filled the sun kissed stadium. Every seat was filled. Our Eagle,Tiger, flew around the tops of our heads and landed midfield. The teams entered to thunderous applause, fanfare and frenzied fans. Bama fans wore stickers that said " Fear the shutout". But something unexpected happened. Auburn, fueled by the fans and faith of spirit with hard work, threw everything they had at Alabama. And for 58 minutes Auburn prevailed. The score, the stats, the noise, the pride- For 58 minutes we owned it. But something unexpected happened. Alabama put together a successful last minute drive and scored the go ahead points. The TV announcers loved the battle for ratings. No one in the stadium moved. But something unexpected happened. The Alabama fans stayed and "sabaned" their victory. Their band played. Their victory ended a perfect scheduled season. But something unexpected happen. What possibly could be wrong? The Bama fans had suffered, sweated, cursed, paced and prayed for 58 torturous minutes and their team finally pulled it out and won. But what they saw next was not suppose to happen...either. The Auburn family stayed. They were suppose to flee in defeat but alas the opposite happened. We stayed in our seats and waited for our team to walk off the field. 80,000 family members escorted them off with thunderous applause and chants of "It's great to be an Auburn Tiger". The recruits stayed and watched this family of ours lift up our team who served up a whole humble pie to #2 Bama. It reminded me of the scene in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" when the Who's in Whoville gathered after their presents and decorations were missing but lifted their voices loudly anyway to lift up their gratitude and celebrations. For us it was about thankfulness, honor, and family. For 58 minutes we were fans, but as our team walked off the field for a few minutes we were all one family. It was a great feeling and we had not even won the game...on the scoreboard. We walked out of the stadium chanting AU cheers down the ramps. Alabama fans were quiet and shocked. Their Heisman candidate was disposed of. Their defense was embarrassed. Their haughtiness was silent. I have not mentioned the crudeness and ugliness that I witnessed or was a part of from Alabama fans prior and during the game. Their reputation for being rude fans lived on-not pulling for their team and being good fans but being jerks to others- even to children. However after the game they were silent. Eerily quiet. One would have thought they lost the game. The lack of the cries of "Roll Tide" was noticeably absent. But something happened. Auburn continued to make us proud, played their hearts out, made idiots out of the sports announcers who proclaimed earlier this was a waste to play, and silenced the visiting fans. Yes, something happened. Auburn won everything but the scoreboard. This was not suppose to happen!!! Alabama was not suppose to allow this!! It was just Auburn for goodness sakes, right?? Wrong.
Not a perfect day but an AUsome day. And with already picking up some of the top recruits in the nation (#8 class in the nation), a new coaching staff that have eyes of the tiger, and an AU family ready to support them all, we only have one question- when does the 2010 season start?

Holiday Project

I have been working on this project since before Halloween. I saw something like in my blog stalking days and just LOVED them. The person had BOO on theirs, but I decided to expand mine a little bit. I had Paul cut apart 2x4's in all different sizes and then I painted them. These were the only ones that I could actually get done in enough time for the holiday. Thanks to my neighbor who got a Cricut (I cant wait to get my own) for Christmas and was allowed to use it early. It was so easy to cut out the letters and cut the paper squares with minimal human error.

I LOVE THEM!! They look SO cute on our floating shelf's and look a lot better when the pictures are not behind them.

One of these days I will actually finish the ones for Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Movin' on up

Well the time has finally come..... A NEW COMPUTER!!!! Last year after just getting a new laptop I dropped it :( And then Paul's laptop crashed. Well that totally stunk... So we decided to wait to get new computers with ALL of the terrible luck we were having getting two new ones was not going to be smart. I was at home and my mom was talking about getting a new computer because her laptop screen went out. My mom asks if I want it.... um yeah something is better than nothing right.... not right. It was great and worked ok. To Skype Paul I would have to turn it on a few minutes before so it could get the hamster going. Yes it did work but took f - o - r - e - v - e - r to so anything. We ended up getting another laptop from Paul's friend because he got a new one. With two laptops on their last legs it was time for now ones F I N A L L Y!!

This was our old set up

And now I graduated to an AWESOME now desktop.
Paul ended up with a net book and I love them both and now we get to actually Skype to
each other.

My finally step will be then to have Paul build a new desk or find one
that we can both agree on.

Don't mind the mess. I know some of you are thinking why not get a Mac... Sorry I am not a Mac girl and probably wont be for a while.