A picture update

Well, I have to say that I have been meaning to post all my Christmas and New Year's pics but I read all my friends blogs and they are all such good writers that I kinda get down on my blogging skills, mostly I do pics and explanations so here they are....... and i just got back my camera- i left my camera in tupelo so these are from the holidays......

The day I got out for Christmas break Bo and I took a trip to New Orleans for the weekend...

We stayed at The Roosevelt Hotel which was so beautiful and decorated so festive! The first thing that I did when we got into the hotel room was open the mini bar and saw a jar of jelly beans- which I love so much so...I reached to grab them and Bo shouted out, "NOOOOO!" and I was like, "What??" I had no idea that once you picked something up it automatically charges your room no matter if you put it back where it was so... we owed 12 DOLLARS for a SMALL jar of jelly beans! But, they were good!


We walked around the French Quarter!

We did a few quarter slots at the big casino but I can't stand losing money!

We had breakfast at Cafe Du Monde!

We went to the aquarium!!

We ate at the Napoleon House, Nacho Mamas on Magazine St., this was our dessert at the Sazerac Restaurant in our hotel!Mr. Jimmy and Charlotte!

Grandaddy, Me, Lollie, and BoAnnual College Christmas Swap!

A few days after Christmas we went to Mountainview, Arkansas with two of our best friends, McLeod and Jason. The cabin was Jason's grandmother's and it was the perfect getaway- his grandmother's rule is no T.V. so we played games, laughed, cooked, went to the little mountain town and made the best memories!

Trying the chilli!

We cooked Ebble Skivers- they are so fun and neat- they originated in some other country- can't think of it- anyway you can fill these little pancakes with anything- vanilla cream, strawberries, jelly, or we used sausage- so good with syrup!!!

In the town of Mountainview- we ate at an old soda shop and walked in all the antique shops- i found an old Julia Child's cookbook!

Happy Christmas Things

Just the fact that the month is December makes me so so happy! I am especially happy right now because I finished my last group of tests for awhile!!!!!! Bo thought something was wrong with me because I was walking around smiling and singing for no reason at all and it is because I was so sick of studying I thought I might die if I had to do it for one more day- not really, but.... I don't talk about school much on my blog because I rather talk about happy things such as......

It SNOWED in MISSISSIPPI!!!!!

My three Favorite Christmas Ornaments this year! A tooth of course, a bassett hound because I buy every bassett hound ornament I see, and a piece of strawberry cake from the Belhaven Garden Club ornament swap!

The Belhaven Singing Christmas Tree! It is the 77th annual singing tree and is recognized as the oldest live singing christmas tree in America. This is the second year that Bo, Kerri, Jonathan, and I have gone- it just puts you in the christmas spirit- we bundled up and took hot apple cider! It is at the soccer field at Belhaven and you have to go down a big hill to get down there and Jonathan had trouble coming back up the hill!!!!





My Mantle and of course my Bassett Hound stocking!!!

30 people from our Sunday School Class all went to Sal and Mookies for a Christmas get together so fun- we were supposed to dress christmasy- I found these five dollar t-shirts at WalMart with a huge santa head that says Believe- hilarious!!!

Kitchen Remodel

I absolutely love our little house in Belhaven and actually am not ready to leave it anytime soon! It is fun to have a house that we can always make improvements too and it is so great to have a father- in- law that can do any project imaginable. I have always loved the Mexican tile in our kitchen but the cabinets and cracks in the wall were not so fun to look at! The cabinets were seriously plain pieces of plywood with some brass and some silver knobs and there was painted linoleum on half the wall- no character at all!!!! Bo's dad hand made beautiful cabinets with so much more detail that just dramatically changed our whole kitchen. My mom came one weekend and we went through about 5 cans of sample color of paints before we decided on a brown called "cork board". We painted all the brown on the walls and even painted the ceiling a mint green. Let me just tell you that this kitchen is small but people have always told me that smaller rooms are harder to paint because of all the nooks and crannies- and boy is that true- i actually hate paint brushes right now and still have not scraped all the paint off the kitchen floor from me being lazy! The kitchen turned out absolutely beautiful! It is so fresh and clean and has an updated look! We hope to in the future to update to stainless steel appliances but for now I love my stove from who knows what decade and my refrigerator that makes a different noise every hour! Thanks Mr. Jimmy for all your hard work and time put in to making our kitchen so beautiful! BEFORE

AFTER

We put wood paneling over the existing linoleom behind the stove- sooo much better!