Post Holiday Post

Forgive my palindromic title, but I couldn't resist.

With much on my mind, let's skip the niceities and get right to it...

Christmas was great! Among some of the more memorable presents for myself were: Cranium Pop 5, Scrubs Seasons 4 and 5, and tickets to see John Mayer February 8th in Columbia with Polly!!! Another gift that Polly and I will be getting soon is our newest member of the family, Zoe Riede. We will be picking her up from Camden on January 12th, and we are very excited to welcome her to our home. We would like to thank those that made it possible- you know who you are even though you don't read my blog.

We had a wonderful time with our families this Christmas. We started by hosting a "linner" or "dunch" (probably easier to just call it supper) for my sister, brother-in-law, niece, and my dad. We had a honeybaked ham, mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole and rolls. For dessert, my sister honored us with her famous pumpkin roll which we really enjoyed. That night was spent awkwardly introducing ourselves to strangers and putting in face time with Matt Steele at his parents home for their catered Christmas party. An early night prepared us for Christmas Eve. As good Methodists, we got dressed up and made the early service on Sunday Morning. Next came the road trip, stopped in Columbia, became fugitives from the law after failing to pay a 50 cent toll getting off the Southern Connector near Greenville, SC, introduced our dog to 8 to 11 other dogs over the course of the entire trip, and settled on Pelham Road.

After opening gifts Sunday night, we woke at 5:30am Christmas Day to travel back to Columbia for more family time. After brunch and gifts Polly and I finally came to our final resting place around 4pm yesterday and we slept...hard.

Numbers of the Trip
3 : the number of times Lily crapped in/on a family members' backyard/carpet;
2 : the number of times I found it and flushed it before that family member could find out.

1 : number of single Christmas Tree Cakes Consumed

2 : number of questionably racist gifts received

3 : number of people piled on top of Joey after making the mistake of laying on the floor

590: the number of pounds combined, crushing Joey on the floor

5 : the number of months it took to get our "professionally" produced wedding video - I've seen steadier panning shots in the Blair Witch Project

3 : the number of times I called Lee, Jim or Jim, Lee
1 : the number of time their mom made the same mistake

2: the number of baking mix gifts received this year (monkey bread and beer bread)

5 : the number of days left in the year- Here we come HOTlanta

(pictures for this post will follow)

merry xmas and happy new year to all