I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

We went to Nashville the weekend after our anniversary and had a great time! We ate at The Aquarium restaurant, horrendously expensive but good food and the giant aquarium in the center of the restaurant was HUGE entertainment for Dash. Very cool.

We also went to see “ICE”, a giant ice exhibit that we’ve been to a few times. Dash had a good time this time though, he had his little parka on and ran around the whole place.

John and Dash at the restaurant…

One of the ICE sculptures…

Dash in his baby sized parka…

Dash must have run through this tunnel 500 times…

Not too sure about the Grinch…

(Who is, really?)

Checking out the animals in the last scene, the nativity…

Right after this picture was taken, he ran over to me, threw his hands in the air and said “Cold. Cold.” Poor kid. It was freezing in there. Thank goodness a heated room and hot chocolate were waiting for us!

This is the last year for The Grinch, I’m not sure what the theme next year will be. It sure has been colorful the past few years though, I’m excited to see what they think of next!

Happy Christmas for real! I hope you all are snuggled up with loved ones surrounded by all kinds of goodies.

So John became Santa last night, and I think he dug it more than he wants to admit…. He wore the wig just a wee bit too long…

We finally got this one…

After a lot that looked like this…

Doesn’t John make a good Santa? He’s not sure if that’s a compliment or not…

Merry Christmas Eve to everyone, from all of us!

I hope you all have the wonderful Christmas you deserve.

I haven’t gotten a picture with Dash and Santa yet, I’ve been kind of scared to take him, honestly, but I think I’d regret not getting one. My solution? Buy John a Santa suit. So I’ll let you know how that goes over. Ha! We bought one last night at Target and he’s going to try it today…

I’m stuck working on Christmas Eve because we have Thursday and Friday off, which stinks, but we brought in chik-fil-a chicken biscuits and we’re having margaritas at work today. So it’s not all bad…

3 years ago today…

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The setup…

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The boys…

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The first sight…

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The Wedding Party…

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The cake… (pic via Candi)

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The Bryant-Denney cake… (also via Candi)

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The chocolate…

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The sign on the building across the street…

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The toast…

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The second before the reception…

Happy Anniversary to my dear, sweet, John. Here’s to 544,347 more years just like the last three…

Where did this sweet voice come from?

1. First some pictures to appease the blogging gods for this blog being neglected so long…

2. I was so afraid Dash would stop making the face he’s making in picture number 3 at some point.

Here he is making it last year…

Sigh. Look at that cute sitting up goodness. And the ornaments on the LOW BRANCHES of the tree. Never again.

3. Speaking of tree, Dash is fascinated with our Christmas tree. I have a miniature one with Hallmark miniature ornaments on it that he loves to the extent that I think I’m going to have to hide it. He sees it and cries until I distract him with one of those dancing musical snowmen things from Hallmark.

4. Dash is learning new words every day, most recently - road runner, ladder, shut the door, sit, uh-oh and my favorite… No. He sings it almost. NooOOOOooo. It’s awesome. Except when he means it. And I guess he usually means it.

5. My super smart hubby was inducted into a national honor society. I’m so proud! He’s way smarter than me! It’s Phi Theta Kappa, the 2 year version of Phi Beta Kappa. They invite the top 10% from each university to join each year.

6. I had to google Phi Beta Kappa to make sure I didn’t have it confused with Phi Beta Sigma. That would rock if he was inducted into Phi Beta Sigma…

7. At the induction ceremony, we ran into a family who’s son was being inducted. He’s a dual enrolled high school student and happens to be majoring in computer science. When I told him where I worked, his mom asked if they hired interns there. I told him we do and gave him my bosses contact info. I’m pretty sure I made his day… It would have made mine 7 years ago…

8. The big auto bailout is scaring the bejeezus out of me. Since my Dad is retired UAW, his benefits would drop to nil if Chrysler filed for bankruptcy. Hopefully they’ll take the bailout! Candi, your Dad is a retired autoworker, too, right? Although it sounds like GM will definitely take it if it’s offered. Chrysler said they might be better off filing for bankruptcy and Ford said they might be able to get by without it.

9. I sent these to a friend of mine for her birthday…

Bangerang Bake Shop

She said they were great!

10. I’m knitting John something for Christmas and the yarn just came yesterday. I’m so excited! I hope it turns out well, and more importantly, that I get it done in time! It’s an easy stitch so I’m more worried about finishing it than anything. I’m a horrendously slow knitter!!