Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

This Christmas was very different for us. We decided to have it be just the three of us at home. What a change from the past few years!! Unfortunately, Elijah got really sick on Christmas Eve, so we had to rearrange some plans, but he was up and back to his normal self on Christmas, so we got up, opened presents and later that day went over to the Ryan family's house for a yummy Christmas dinner with all of our friends. It was great!

We didn't do much for New Year's Eve, but since we're not big New Year's Eve party people, it wasn't a big deal! We had planned on going to the beach with a bunch of friends, but since I had to work (yes! I am now officially back in the working world!!) we decided to keep it fairly low-key. We had dinner at Outback and then watched a movie and saw the ball drop at midnight. Then we were in bed! Probably by 12:05!! It's a good thing too, since Elijah was up at 7:00.

2009 looks to be an interesting year. Chris is officially back in the 'fleet' so he will deploy sometime this year (since this is a public blog, I will not be posting anything other than this regarding his deployment. If you want updates, be sure to give me your email address as I'll be sending out emails as often as I can). We'll still be in North Carolina and I'm working again, so I plan on staying very busy this year! I do plan to travel some this year. I'll be heading to Charleson in February, and again in April for the Cooper River Bridge Run. Then we'll be heading back up to Ohio for Beth and Sean's wedding!! My cousin, Katy, is getting married out in wine country in March, and I'm really hoping to make that as well.

I'll try to keep the blog updated as often as I can! So keep checking back! I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 2009!!!!

Christmas in Ohio!

Since we decided to spend the holidays at home, we wanted to visit with Chris' family before he deploys, so we flew up to Columbus the second weekend in December to celebrate Christmas. Elijah did pretty good on his first plane ride! He had a fit on the plane leaving Atlanta, but he was just tired. We got to Ohio early afternoon on Thursday and left on Sunday morning. We had a great time spending time with Dianne, John, Hope, Aubrey, Beth and Sean. We hated having to leave! Well, I have to admit, I was glad to get back to warmer weather! It snowed while we were there and it was 70 degrees in North Carolina!!!!

Everyone is doing great! Hope is due with baby number 2 within the next few weeks, so we look forward to that! And Sean and Beth are getting married in April! It's coming up so fast!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Ok, so it's been another long while since I've updated this blog! But it's been pretty busy around here, so I'll start with Thanksgiving! We have decided that this year we were spending our holidays at our home in Jacksonville, NC. We have friends here that decided they were going to do the same thing, so we all decided to celebrate together! So off to the Parrish's we went, along with the Ryans, the Burgess's and the Ulmer's. There was a good crowd and no shortage of food! Everything was great and we left stuffed. Chris had his traditional turkey leg (no shortage of those either, we had three turkey's!!) and of course, tons of deserts!!

The next day (yes, Black Friday!!!) Brittney and I got up at 3:30 in the morning to hit the after Thanksgiving deals. Destiny joined us around 5. We went everywhere and were back home by noon. We had such a good time and I can't wait for next year!!!