Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Shotgun shells...oops wrong song!

Tis the holiday season and how do I know this? Well...a few of you had heard me say my calendar looks like someone threw up on it, let's just say a family of little elves have officially thrown up on my calendar!
We headed up to Huntsville yesterday morning bright and early to spend Christmas with my mom, step-dad, step-brother and sister in law who is 37 weeks pregnant. We all had a wonderful time without turning the TV on until the last 30 minutes. The day was long but good times were had by all...well except for one little thing. You know I can't go somewhere without something happening, I got a ticket...wait TWO tickets actually on the way up there. One for speeding and one for not having my drivers license with me. We were in my mom's car and I left my purse in my truck and anyway, who's idea was it to give tickets for not having a little piece of plastic with you. THAT SUCKS!
So now we are home and today we had our last small group meeting of the year and played a little game to see how well we all knew each other, we have been together for almost a year and surprisingly we don't know each other very well at all, heheh!

Tomorrow I am scheduled for surgery at 12:30, nothing major in and out, Wednesday we are heading to grandma's for Christmas with my mom's side of the family. Wednesday night my dad and step mom will come to our house and help us bake cookies for Santa and drink hot chocolate. We will get up Thursday morning and spend the morning with them, and head out to Anthony's mom's house that evening for a sure to be eventful evening. You guys might want to start praying now that I don't 1.) cuss his mother out for doing something absolutely stupid or 2.) punch his step-dad in the face for undressing me with his eyes. Finally we will return home to sleep and leave early Friday morning heading to my Honey's house ( for those of you who don't know who Honey is, this is my dad's dad and I have always called him this). They live on the northern edge of Georgia on the North Carolina line. We will stay there through Monday morning spending time with my uncles and aunts that I rarely get to see. Monday morning we will be heading west to Murfreesboro, Tn. We plan to spend about a week with our great friends, Megan and Jason, and Katie and George. I am pretty sure Cutler will be spending most of his time with his little buddy George Alex. So prayers are welcome as we start this adventurous journey through the holiday season.


Oh yeah, Anthony received a call from a company he really wants to work for, they told him he got the job but they are waiting on their finance committee before they can give him an official offer. Should happen around the first of the year but it sure was nice to get that news prior to the holidays!


Peace and love to all of you!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Remember what CHRISTmas is all about and make sure your children know as well!

Later,
L

This week's menu

Time for this week's menu:

Monday: Homeade Waffles, Sausage, Eggs
Tuesday: Mini Meatloaf, Garlic Mashed Potato, Sweet Peas
Wednesday: Slow Cooked Boston Butt, Green Bean Bundles, Rice
Thursday: Black Beans, Yellow Rice, Smoked Sausage
Friday: Chicken and Dumplings
We will be out of town this weekend for Holiday Celebrations so no cooking for us, YEAH!!!!

Weekly Menu 12/7/2008-12/13/2008

Most of you know we are a very organized family and my husband and I both love to cook. A few people have recently asked me to start posting my menus weekly to help spark some ideas. I will try to do this each week and see how it goes... (BTW this is just our dinner menu)

Sunday: Sloppy Joe Pizza
Monday: Chicken Cordon Blue, Parmesan Roasted Potatoes, Green Beans Almondine
Tuesday: Chili
Wednesday: Chicken Quesadillas with refried beans and rice
Thursday: Chicken Sandwich and Baked Fries
Friday: Fat Burgers, Parmesan Angel Hair and Broccoli
Saturday: Family Christmas with my Step-mothers family

If you ever want the recipes for these items, let me know, I always share:)

Later,
l

Christmas is among us

Anthony and I hosted a Christmas party for those who work for me in the US and their spouses this past Friday night. It was wonderful, everyone ate, played dirty Santa, and overall had great time. One thing happened that I will never forget. One of my employees, Lori yes spelled the same and we even have the same middle name, boyfriend brought his guitar. After everyone else left he sat on the couch in the living room with nothing but the light of the Christmas tree and played and sand some hank, David Allen Cove, Eagles and more. I started to get homesick so quick that I actually teared up but decided it was not a good thing to cry in front of them. Sitting around at night, singing those songs, drinking beer 9which we did not this time) reminds me so much of all the fun I always had in good old Selma, Alabama. I wish things were still as simple as they were when I lived there, part of that was the age I was and the other part is the simple fact that things just move at a much slower pace in Selma, Alabama. Everyone has people over in the summer for cookouts and playing in the pool, or they all go to the river. In the winter everyone hunts and the family gets together after the sun has set to hang out, eat, drink beer, and listen or play those awesome country songs. Somehow, someway I am going to make my life simple again, no more go go go...well I did say someday, don't think that will happen today!

Here is a pic of some of my staff members at the party:

The staff also posed this morning for a pic to send to my staff in the other countries:

Please continue to keep our family in your prayers as Anthony is still on the job hunt. Good things are coming I know, he has had a few great interviews that we are waiting to hear back on now.

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." ~~~Hebrews 11:1

Later,

L

I told you I was going to get better about posting!

I only have one thing to show you

More to come after I decide on my Christmas cards...and a big THANK YOU to one of my dearest friends, Crystal Champion Daniels for taking this.

Later,

Lori

Do you remember...

Do you remember the door to door Watkins man????

If not read more and it might jog your memory.

So a friend of mine of decided to join the Watkins team recently and I went to her house this past weekend for an open house extravaganza. I promise if you would have seen her house you would call it an extravaganza too...oh you can see it, go check out her blog...http://goodtastings.blogspot.com/2008/11/grand-opening-success.html

See, I told you it was awesome! Anyway, I have decided to join forces with her and become a Watkins Independent Associate myself and am thrilled to have made this decision. I will be hosting parties, attending fall festivals, and most of all knocking on the doors in my subdivision. We all know I live in a geriatric neighborhood and most of the older generation still remember the door to door Watkins guy that sold the oh so famous "Liniment"

So check out the catalog at http://www.watkinsonline.com/ and let me know if you want to order anything. You can order directly online by using my Associate ID # 382014 or let me know and I can incorporate your order and save you a ton on shipping. I love these products and think you will love them too.

If you are in the Alabaster area Friday night or Saturday afternoon, come on by our booth at CreekView Elementary School during their Winter festival.

Later,

Lori

Not Dead...

So I guess all of my followers have given up on me by now. I had a few things going on that kept my mind occupied most of the time and I was not sure that I needed to let all of that out at once. But...I am back. We have had an eventful few weeks. Halloween was wonderful, my dad and Dena came up to go to the church festival with us an keep an eye on "Optimus Prime" aka Cutler. Since then we have tiled the downstairs hallway and laundry room, attended a football party, and gotten a few incomplete projects around the house finally completed. Most of you already know that Anthony was laid off a few weeks ago and I hope that you continue to pray that God leads him to a job that is meant for him. Since Anthony has had a few weeks worth of vacation, little projects that were almost complete in our house are now finally completed and I am one of the happiest women in the world. I have two pics to share with you for now and I promise to start blogging a lot more...








Later,
Lori