Christmas time

Steven and I have gotten a heads up on the Christmas decorating this year. We actually completed all of our decorating just 2 days after Thanksgiving. Our tree is so beautiful. I think that picking out our Christmas tree is probably the most fun activity and most looked forward to activity of the year. We got the tree home and discovered that our vision was a little bigger than our house. We had to cut the top off of the top of the tree to get it to fit in the living room. You can tell that we've finally settled into our home this year b/c we bought garland and red bows to decorate the front porch. It's been a great, festive weekend of Christmas preparations. Steven is such a good sport about decorating, he really loves it - which I'm truly blessed to have a husband who doesn't mind helping. And he's truly blessed to have a wife who hates to shop. We're going to work on our shopping list tonight and I hope to get everybody taken care of in a day or so, I might even try online shopping this year.

Also - saw RENT today with my bestest friend, Andrea. The music was awesome and I would totally love to see it on Broadway. There are so many shows that I'd love to see on Broadway, but I don't see a trip there happening anytime soon. Ah, how I wish I had the money to sweep Andrea and me off to the Big Apple to take in a few Broadway shows. After the city that never sleeps I'd want to go to California to be on the Price is Right. All my biggest dreams involve show biz in someway. Ah, I'm such a daydreamer.

Birthday bash

Had a great weekend celebrating my mom's birthday. My brother and I spent the whole weekend at my folk's house - mama absolutely loved it. It was sweeeeeeeeeet! I tried to get some video of mama and daddy, just to get some good memories. It's a shame that I've waited this long to get good footage of daddy. Daddy's so far gone now, it's pitiful. But, he did say he loved me, Joey, and mama and I got it on tape - it was awesome. And, Joey made daddy laugh Friday night, I didn't get it on camera though. It was so great to see his smile. I want to remember every moment like that. Worked on Meredith's garden today. That's one garden that I'll never complain about working in. Lots of good memories this weekend, lots of good times.