Christmas, Lida's 24th, New Year's Eve, One YEAR, Gatlinburg...and MORE!

I'm not really surprised that I haven't written since December -- because life is kinda NUTTY ... but that's no excuse!
Christmas went by in a flash between getting everything ready, redoing our kitchen, purchasing and wrapping gifts for 16 of my foster children, wrapping gifts any way, getting sick on the 22nd of December through my birthday (12/30) ... woof...as Buddy would say! I would also say that we all did REALLY well for Christmas! I delivered Santa's gifts on the 24th of December to all of my foster children and I KNOW they were surprised! Between all of us, we had the BEST Christmas ever. Kenny's SANTA was a pool table, which he flipped out over! A word of advice, in the even that any of you want one of those....order it 3 years ahead of time! Kenny's was ordered before December 1st and he got it on the 29th of December!! He's played so many games on it and absolutely love love loves it! We are excited about a new year!

I turned 24, but I don't claim much happiness, sometimes seeing where you were a year ago and where you haven't gone is pretty depressing. Although, I had an AMAZING time with my family & got the BEST gift ever - a TOM TOM for my travels! If any of you guys travel a lot....get one of these TOM TOMs (or SUE SUE -- that's what we call her b/c her voice name is Susan) - they are usually correct & good at telling the directions before the turn...which sometimes you don't get from an actual person!

New Year's Eve was fun except for the part of dealing with some pretty sick friends...YUCK..I'm glad that wasn't me! Had a great time with fireworks and enjoying ourselves! Happy New Year...BE GREAT IN 08!

Our Gatlinburg trip was AMAZING as well -- Kenny, Harper and I piled into Kenny's car and Mr. Lynn and Ms. Donna piled into another until we hit Knoxville (stopped in Birmingham) when we picked up Clif and Richard and headed to Gatlinburg....details on the next post! We had a great time even though the trip back was very very long -- and by Thursday I had received 14 phone calls on my cell phone from work (not that I answered them) -- at that point I was NOT excited about returning to Pineville.

Our 1 year anniversary was spent traveling back home, seeing our beautiful babies and family, and then cleaning up. I tried a Rachel Ray recipe and we went to bed early...we were exhausted from the 5 1/2 hour drive that day! We had a couple of bites of the cake -- still lacked moisture but oh well! The next day...we went to Outback and ate our cake -- had loads of fun. Can anyone believe it has been a year already?? Whoa...

Well, the next blog will be of our trip to Gatlin...love all of you guys!
Miss you!
Kenny & Lida