From Java

Merry Christmas!!!

Love,

Java

Savannah Girls Cookie Exchange

After having a fun get together for another cookie exchange with my Sunday school class, I thought it would be a great idea to get some girls together in the neighborhood for a cookie and ornament exchange. We had a lot of fun - and ate way too many cookies!!! We enjoyed getting to know several neighbors and look forward to doing this again sometime! Savannah Girls (and surrounding areas:-)
My plate of Cookies!!! Oh, they were so yummy!!!

Grandy's Birthday

Grandy came over for dinner at our house for her birthday last week. One of her gifts was this cute pink "snuggy!" Happy Birthday, Grandy!
"All snuggy-ed up" - Pepa, Madi, and Grandy.

Gloria 2009

Last weekend was "Gloria" with the Prestonwood Choir and Orchestra. Myself, along with Barrett, my Mom, and my Dad are all a part of the choir and were able to be a part of the presentation again this year. Around 20,000 people came this year during the 4 performances. Over 400 of those made decisions for Christ! It truly is a blessing for us to have the opportunity to take part in such a life changing event for so many. On Sunday night many of our family members came to see the show.
Mom, Dad, Barrett and I waiting in the Choir room for the last performance. We all had a fun time together for the weekend.

Here we are. Funny, this is the place we first met...in the choir at Prestonwood.

Mother and Daughter

Mom and Dad

LaMadeleine's & Shopping

Earlier on in this month of December, Tara, Oliver, and I went on a fun outing to LaMadeleine's for lunch at the Galleria along with some shopping for Christmas. It was such a fun and relaxing day of shopping with my big sister! I look forward to many more of those fun days sometime again real soon! Sisters
Little Ollie - 15 months old

Decorating For Christmas

We are now all decorated for Christmas! This is definitely my favorite time of year! I love everything about it - the decorating, lights, music, shopping, wrapping, cooking, cold weather, and celebrating the birth of our Savior - Jesus! We found our perfect tree!
We made it home with the tree still attached to the roof of the car. Good work, Barrett!

Yippy, I love the day we come home with the tree!

Barrett - hanging the outdoor lights.

The Star

Java seems to love the tree!

The living room

I love to turn out all the lights in the house except for the Christmas lights to just sit and enjoy.

The Staircase

We had some unexpected visitors one day - a flock of ducks on our front lawn.

Thanksgiving 2009

We enjoyed a fun Thanksgiving this year in Houston with the Walch family!

Tanya, Barrett and the big bird!!!We spend the 2 days before Thanksgiving preparing the food (plus Pam had been cooking already before we arrived) - pumpkin pie, pecan pie, lemon pie, fig cake, gingerbread, fudge balls, chocolate cookies, cranberry oatmeal bars, turkey, cornbread dressing, green bean casserole, cheesy corn, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy...I'm sure I missed something.Mackenzie and Preston even helped cooking their favorite "pink stuff."

Thanksgiving morning we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Aaron and Alex were there in New York for the parade, so they texted us a picture of spiderman floating by.

Tanya cutting up the giblets for the gravy.

Barrett and his Mom with the turkey.

Which one's the turkey?

Here we are...all ready for the big meal.
Barrett, his Dad, and Brantley tossing the football.

Now for the lemon toss, fresh off the lemon tree.

Getting in the Christmas spirit!

Uncle Barrett with the kiddos!

Barrett, his Mom, and I enjoying the perfect weather outside.
We all worked together to decorate the house for Christmas on Friday.

Group shot - Reindeer style

We are ready for Christmas!!!!