The Winter Wonderland

This is the first snow we've seen in North Carolina. We had about 3 inches total. It was so pretty this morning when I woke up. As you can see, it was still snowing quite heavily. And in true North Carolina fashion, it is supposed to be in the low 60's on Friday. Welcome to NC!!!

Birthday Parties

To celebrate the birthday girls in December and January, we had a joint birthday party at the house. We had several of our closest friends over and enjoyed the evening. Lou enjoyed her cake, her friends, and all her presents. All in all, we had a great birthday celebration to which Lou exclaimed "this is the best birthday ever!".



Lou and I opening presentsJosh and Lou opening her presents.

Eating her birthday cake

Blowing out the candles

Lou and I preparing dinner for the party. She likes to wear my apron!

Our Merry Little Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. We spent most of Christmas in West Texas visiting Grandmom and Grandad. Then we returned to North Carolina to spend the days following Christmas with Lou. While the Christmas in West Texas wasn't exactly a "White Christmas", it was filled with lots of good food (as you can see below) and great family stories. There are entirely too many pictures to post from Christmas so if you have time, you can stop by our Google Picasa page and check out the Christmas album.

Lou enjoyed her scarf from cousin Barbee.

"It's Veggie Tales". This is one of Lou's favorites!


Ed and I gave each other only "As Seen on TV" gifts. We found it quite entertaining to do a theme Christmas. And as a result, Ed got the "Ped Egg" as one of his gifts. I don't think it was his favorite. haha!

I got Ed this great t-shirt. Not sure if you can see it in this picture but it says "I love my wife". At first, he looked at me like I was crazy. But then he was brave enough to wear it around family. Go figure.
Grandaddy cooking the world's largest steaks! They were good!

Tis' the Season

We have been busy over the last couple of days getting the house ready for Christmas. This is a special Christmas because it is my first Christmas with a real tree. Living in Texas growing up, we never really had real trees. So we were sure to get my first real tree this Christmas. I can honestly say that at this point, I enjoy the fake, pre-lit trees as putting lights on the real thing took much longer than expected. Meanwhile, Ed worked on the outside lights. In doing so, he has almost broken his big toe. That's right...he kicked a brick, broke it in two, and is now limping. All in a day's work in hanging Christmas lights! Here are the results of our efforts this past weekend. Hope each of you are enjoying the holiday season!

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great Thanksgiving with all the works. We had Mom, Larry, Fern, and Carla at our house for Thanksgiving. We cooked for what seemed like days. I successfully messed up the pecan pies but I figure if that's all I messed up, then it was a successful Thanksgiving. You can check out more of our pictures on our Google Picasa page at http://picasaweb.google.com/edandjody/Thanksgiving2008#

Larry doing what he did best all week - eating!

Fern and Ed fishing at sunset. Brotherly bonding!

The candid shots of the chefs! This is scary that Mom and I were the head chefs for the big day. Luckily, Ed cooked the turkey.
This is what turkey and a few beers does to Ed.
We scheduled an appointment for family portraits during the holiday week. This is Lou getting ready for the pictures. Stay tuned for those pictures!

The final hair product! How can a little girl have that much hair!?! I'm so jealous.
Lou roasting smores. As the afternoon progressed, her "smore mustache" grew.

The Spartans

It has been brought to my attention that I failed to post a picture of my Halloween Spartan costume. Well, to those of you who actually care to see my poor choices at Halloween, here you go. By the way, Halloween is one of my least favorite holidays because we all look ridiculous the following day. Nevetheless, here is one of our NOT FINER moments. -Ed and Jody, The Spartans

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween, complete with lots of candy and great costumes. Lou was a Southern Belle. The best part was hearing her tell you she was a "Southern Belle". She can't really pronounce it so it comes out with about 6 extra syllables in "southern belle". It's hysterical. Ed and Jody were "Spartans". Ed was the Spartan off of the movie 300 and Jody was a Spartan cheerleader off of the SNL skit.

Lou getting all decked out....

The prettiest Southern Belle and pumpkin dog!
Off to trick or treat, with Biscuit leading the way.

Lou and Scooby Doo
Looking over the evening's loot....

The Spartan and his southern belle

The Priest and Poon family (our great neighbors!)