Festivus

A tradition was started in the year 2006 when we celebrated our first Festivus among family and friends, at my house. This year there was more food than ever! We couldn't even begin to make a dent. We followed the traditional Festivus rules this year which included the unadorned Festivus pole, the airing of grievances, and the feats of strength.


In the feat of strength the head of the household must wrestle everyone til they lose. Mike wrestled Jim, Wes, Katy Mac, and he thumb wrestled Watkins. I wrestled Kate and Katy Mac. I think we both lost to Katy Mac.







The Festivus pole, is neither beautiful, nor festive. In Festivus' origin which I date back to Frank Costanza on Seinfeld, Frank finds tinsel distracting, thus the unadorned pole.

Happy BDAY CARRIE!

For my cousin Carrie's 25th birthday, her mom (my aunt) Lisa decided to throw her one HELL of a party! The theme was island tiki and the cake was bright pink with a flamingo! It was great. The whole family and all of Carrie's friends turned out for great food, great fun and great WINE!
You only turn 25 once!

Lisa and Carrie looked super sexy!


















Everyone came out in their Hawaiian finest!

Simon and Owen and Santa

We took Simon and Owen to get their picture made with Santa, and as you can see, they loved it!

Christmas Parade (year 4)

This year was Kate and my 4th annual appearance in the Christmas Parade. We started out by getting awesome matching outfits to go under our boxes. We also had some pretty jammin' hats that I got at Earth to Old City. Kate came over to my place, as usual and we got to work wrapping our boxes and sampling some fine whiskey that Kate brought. The wrapping paper and boxes looked better than ever. I went crazy this year and got wrapping paper with a print...WHOA! It wound up looking the best.


This year when we got down to the parade we scouted out the scene, as usual. We walked all the way to the end of the line where Santa was but we weren't really getting a good vibe from that end of the parade, plus Cotton Eyed Joes was asking us to carry their banner, and we were like, eh not so much.




We finally found a spot next to the Farragut High school marching band. We started out behind them but moved our way up to the front. We got between them, and the habitat for HUmanity float and eventually they both kep spacing away from us because each thought we were with the other. This worked out perfectly because then we had our own spot.

While we were marching along a man came up to Kate and we thought for sure he was coming to kick us out. We he wasn't. He was with the newspaper and wanted to know our names for the newspaper article! Kate told him our names and he wanted to know who we were with. She thought for a second and then spit out, "THE HUMANE SOCIETY?" To which he interpreted as habitat for humanity, probably because that is the float we were behind. Anyway, this was the best parade ever, and we are getting really good at this! News paper photo below

Best Legs Contest

About a week before Thanksgiving, Kate was driving down Kingston pike when she saw a sign on the marquis of the Palace saying that they were having a best legs contest.

Well, she called me right away and told me to enter, which of course, I did.


We invited many friends who came to support my cause and I dressed up in my sexy school girl outfit...








AND WON!!!

FIRST PLACE!!!!

AHHH! Hottes legs baby!!!

Simon November Update

Simon is the cutest he has ever been in his life, which is saying a lot because he was already quite cute. He is soooo close to walking this month. He can pretty much do it, but is still just choosing not to. He can cruise really fast. Also, he is eating everything, thank goodness! He loves spagetti, vegetables and most fruits. Put a cupcake in front of him, he's not interested, but give him a green bell pepper, he will eat it. What a weirdo!
My favorite think Simon is doing lately, is signing "more". The sign looks like he is clapping his hands but let me tell you he definitely knows what it means and if he really likes something he has eaten he will tell you "more! more! more!" It is great!
Simon isn't quite talking besides mama and dada.
His main skill is organization. He spends hours organizing blocks, shoes, etc.
This weekend he is getting his picture made with Santa and Owen in Chattanooga!