Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a little in between!

Wow! What a month! Thanksgiving was great! Christmas wonderful as well.. Since I wrote last time, I've hardly had too much time to breathe. The family hasn't had a weekend since that we haven't had something going on. Shortly after Thanksgiving, we did a little redecorating in our house! We had new carpet and Pergo (fake hardwoods) installed and it completely changed the look of our house! It looks great, but my advice is that if you want carpet, be prepared for a mess. We had 26 1/2 years worth of stuff in our house, and it ALL had to be gone through and cleaned out. We found things we hadn't seen in years. There were several trips to goodwill, and 2 trips to the dump of stuff that couldn't be salvaged. After getting the carpet and floors installed came the unpacking. Which lingered for weeks. Finally about 2 weeks ago we finished getting everything back in the house, then we spent time unpacking and getting things back how we wanted it. My room is almost back where I want it. I still have one bookcase to be painted and put back in its proper place. I'm super excited about something that came from all the cleaning and everything and that is I have a place for my scrapbook/stamp stuff. Now I can work on a project and leave it out if I want a break instead of having to pack it all back up so its not in the floor in my room. I hope I can get busy on some over due scrapbooking!!

We had our family Christmas with dad's side of the family the 2nd weekend in December. That was nice to see everyone together. It's pretty much the only time everyone gets together. It is nice though to have this weekend set aside to see each other!

The next weekend a family friend got married!

Then came Christmas! On Monday, last week, Dad and I drove to Raleigh to pick up my Aunt Faye so she could spend Christmas with us! On Christmas Eve, mom, KC, Aunt Faye, Will, Margaret, Em, and Garret all went to breakfast at Cracker Barrell, this is a new tradition of ours. Then Mom, Aunt Faye, and I went to Walmart so mom could finish her last minute stuff, she's such a procrastinator.. I know where I get it from.Lol! Christmas day was nice and relaxing. Mom, Dad, Aunt Faye and I ate breakfast then went and saw Em, and Garret and what they got for Christmas, then we went back to the house, and just relaxed until Rob, KC, and Will got there. We then opened our presents. Rob cooked our steaks and mom did the rest of our traditional Steak and Shrimp. Bill and Donna arrived for dinner! Then we just enjoyed each other and being a family!

The day after Christmas, Aunt Faye and I drove to SC to see one of my cousins and spend the day with him and his wife. It was nice seeing them, I don't know the last time I saw them. maybe I'll have to go down another time for a visit. We ate lunch, went to a Clemson store, played Guitar Hero, then went and ate dinner! Kristin came over when we got home and saw Aunt Faye and exchanged our gifts! She got me a game for wii!!!

OH yea! On Sunday Dec. 29th, I celebrated my 2 yr anniversary of finishing chemo!!! YAY!!!

Now here we are entering into 2009 in a little over 24 hours. I can't believe that the year is almost over.... Well til next Happy NEW YEAR!!