See you next year!

Since Addi is sick with RSV and 2 ear infections, we are spending our New Year's Eve at home (probably would be anyway, but that sounded like a good excuse). We rented a movie through Redbox (do you guys know about Redbox??? I will give details on my next FF, which will be next Friday), have cookies, milk and some Reese's Peanut Butter Trees that I found for 50% off and we are just hanging out in our jammies. They probably won't even make it to midnight....I will of course!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. See you next year!

Way back When-esday!

Shannon & Taylor....New Years 2001!

Christmas Wrap Up!

I couldn't possibly post all of our Christmas pictures, so I made this slide show for you to enjoy!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Merry Christmas!

From The James Family! We are knee deep in baby strollers, Tech Decks, tea sets and Ipod Touch accessories....but are having a great day! Hope you have the same!

Way back When-esday!

Ooops, almost forgot to post today! Busy, busy!!! This is Hannah, Drew and Holley.....Christmas 2007, I think!

The 12th Day of Christmas!

The 12th day of Christmas is fuzzy socks!
It’s the TWELFTH day of Christmas.
Here’s something for your toes.
Just relax and snuggle up.
You’re the best…everyone knows!

Have You been Jingled?

We have!!! This is the cutest thing! Just go to this website and print out 2 copies of the poem and the elf. Make up 2 goody bags and then go "jingle" your friends and neighbors. Drew had so much fun knocking on doors and running.
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The 11th day of Christmas is Hershey Kisses!
It’s the ELEVENTH day of Christmas.
We’re dropping off some kisses.
We want to send our love to you….
And warmest Christmas wishes!

Way Back When-esday!

Oh gosh....what year was this? Someone help me out here? This was at Sunbrook. L to R: Beth, me, Santa, Katy, Cindy, Brandi. Back Row: Jennifer, no idea, no idea, Mandy!

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The 10th day of Christmas is a mug and hot chocolate.

It’s the TENTH day of Christmas.
Here’s something nice and hot.
To warm you up and let you know,
That you are loved a lot!

The 9th Day of Christmas!

The 9th Day of Christmas is nuts!

It’s the NINTH day of Christmas.
We say thanks for all you do.
We want to let you know,
That we are “NUTS” for you!

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Another busy week! It started on Wednesday with free carriage rides and Santa pics at the Avenue.

As you can see.....Addi's feelings about Santa have not changed!

Thursday night was our Bunco Christmas party! I have been playing bunco with these girls for many years! We always go out to dinner for Christmas!

I love my gift from Amy! Can't wait to use him!

On Friday, Drew and I were off to Cartersville to see "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". It was a cute, cute play! Here we are making our "grand entrance".

Drew performed perfectly as Randy Richards, Speller Number 11 in "The Christmas County Spelling Bee" at our church! It was sooo cute!!

We celebrated 2 birthdays on Saturday! Shannon turned 22........

......and Miss Bailey turned 5!

We went to my mom's cemetery, Saturday night. They usually have a beautiful service and light luminaries throughout, but it was cold and RAINING so it was canceled. Our family went anyway and decorated with some new Christmas flowers.


My baby is now 9 months old! Time is going too fast!

What a busy weekend! We have one more weekend before Christmas and it will be packed as well! Fun stuff!

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The 8th day of Christmas is a dish towel.

It’s the EIGHTH day of Christmas.
A towel we give to you!
To dry a Christmas dish or plate.
And remind you that you’re great!

The 7th Day of Christmas!

The seventh day of Christmas is a game. I got this for $1 at Walmart.

It’s the SEVENTH day of Christmas.
And we sure are having fun.
Here’s a game for you to play.
We hope it’s fun for everyone!

The 6th Day of Christmas!

The 6th day of Christmas is a movie and popcorn. A couple of the years I have given like a $5 Blockbuster gift card. I finally smartened up and hit the $3 movies on Black Friday and always find a good clean Christmas movie.

It’s the SIXTH day of Christmas.
And it’s time to get some rest.
Here’s a movie and some popcorn.
We think you’re simply the best!

Way Back When-esday! (and the 5th Day of Christmas)

This picture was taken Christmas 2007. Since I am in charge of games and entertainment at our family Christmas get togethers, I cam up with this silly game. Each person had to scoop out a glob of Vaseline and put it on their nose. Then they had to put their reindeer nose on (paper circles) and do different things that I told them to like, run in place, jumping jacks, etc. The person who kept their nose on the longest was the winner. It was a hoot! Every time I see this picture of my dad, I just die laughing! (I may play this game with Drew's class at their Christmas party).

The 5th day of Christmas is chocolate!

It’s the FIFTH day of Christmas.
And here is something sweet.
There’s nothing like a little chocolate
To make the day complete!

The 4th Day of Christmas

The fourth day is a book. I usually send a book that his teacher can read to the class and then add to her classroom library. But Drew's teacher just found out that she is expecting so I found these cute little Christmas board books and thought that would make her happy!

It’s the FOURTH day of Christmas.
We hope you are doing well.
Here’s one of our favorite stories
That sure is nice to tell!

Christmas in the air!

Wow! We had a busy, busy weekend! Friday night we went to the Tree Lighting in downtown Hiram. It is such a cute little town and it looks even cuter all decked out for Christmas! Hannah stayed with us all weekend so she got to enjoy all of the fun things we did as well. Saturday, we went to the Christmas Parade in Dallas. Brrrrr! We froze our hineys off. Luckily, my niece Belinda knew someone who lives right on the parade route so we got VIP parking and could sit in our car and watch the parade if we got too cold. Saturday night, Drew and Papa went to the movies while the girls...me, Shirley and Hannah (Keith and Addi stayed home and watched football) went to the Women's Christmas dinner at church. It is always so much fun to look at all of the tables that everyone decorates.

Drew and Hannah enjoying the festivities downtown Hiram.

Addi looking at the tree all lit up! This picture just melts my heart!

Here we are at the Dallas Parade!

A Paulding County parade is never complete without the 4 X 4 Association!

This is the daughter of some friends I went to school with (Suzanne Willoughby & Ralph McArthur). She is beautiful!

There's Todd, Melissa & Mikah walking with the Boy Scouts!

This was so cute. They had Christmas music playing and they were dancing!!!

The big guy himself even came from Orlando to be in our little ole' parade!

This is Madison, my friend Tiffany's daughter. I can't believe how grown up (and pretty) she has gotten!

Here is Savannah....our youth friend from church! They stopped right in front of us and I was making her laugh!

A shout out to Ragsdale Heating & Air (maybe this will boost their business so they can give Keith some work).

Drew being silly! We were joking that just anyone could get up that morning and decide they wanted to be in the Dallas parade so Drew decided he was going to join in the parade!

And of course, what Christmas parade is complete without Santa!!!

This is the "before" picture of the little girls table at the Christmas Dinner. You will see the "after" picture in a minute!

This was my snowman table. I forgot to take a picture of the table by itself...hopefully someone did! It turned out very cute!

The "after" picture!

And of course, last night we had to put our shoes out for Saint Nicholas to visit (I have too many traditions...they are wearing me out).

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The 3rd day of Christmas is a bottle of Sprite!

It’s the THIRD day of Christmas.
And we wish you much delight
In this season full of fun.
May your days be merry and “SPRITE”