Day Off

In case you were wondering what Daddy has been up to? Well, he got to go see Buck Cherry on New Year's Eve. It's OK, if you don't know who Buck Cherry is. I don't know them either, but the important thing is that there are bands and entertainers that take time to go overseas for our troops! Daddy is way more than ready to come home and we are finally able to start counting down weeks instead of months! 

Camden and I spent our Holiday Monday off from work and school by watching a movie together. It was Smurfs and it wasn't on my top ten list of things to do, but is was kind of cute, for a kid anyway!


On Saturday I took Camden skating with his friends. He had such a great time and his skating skills have improved somewhat from the one foot shuffle that Daddy taught him! He can now skate with both feet except he spends most of the time running instead of skating. Maybe we should get him started in speed skating! Ha! As soon as we got in the car to leave the skating rink Camden let me know that "his boob hurt!" I thought, oh my, this can't be good!! Through some questioning I was able to find out that he had fallen down and hurt his chest. The fun never ends when a child is involved!!

Way Too Cold

Well, since it was 16 degrees the other morning, I knew I would start daydreaming about this soon. It is the only way that I can survive winter!  We love the beach!!! This is Camden from 2009.

My little surfer dude! And if you ever wondered what Santa did when he wasn't making all of those toys....He spends time at our beach!! HAHAHA!

Play By The Rules

Many of you may not know this, but I met Justin Bieber last summer. He was, of all places, at Belk!!! He was much skinnier in person, kinda like cardboard! Ha! My very nice friend Stephanie suggested that we get our pictures made with him. Sales Associates were laughing at us, but I was the only one that had their picture made. Stephanie decided that she didn't want her picture taken. Imagine that! We didn't buy his perfume, but I did take Camden to see his movie last year.

I always tell Camden at the table to stop putting his hands in his hair. He eats everything with his fingers (no need for forks in our house) then puts his hands in his hair with food on them. Last night at the table I put my head down on my hand just because it had been one of those days. Camden said, "Get your hand off your hair mommy. You have to play by the rules too!!" Always practice what you preach!

New Year's Day

We had a relaxing New Year's Day which was a great way to start out the year! Camden enjoyed a little Wii Dance first thing in the morning, like at around 6:00. Who wakes up at six on a weekend? He told me to do it too because it would make me "more skinnier." Really?

Then we took off to Granny Sue's for her famous breakfast. She makes the best breakfast in the world and I am second according to Camden. We ate ourselves into a stupor which was bad because that meant New Year's Resolution #1 had already been broken! Yes, this is my child with a whole plate full of grits!

Can you say homemade biscuits?

How about some tomato gravy and eggs?

Some grits that are just right!

Real gravy?!?! Perfect with the biscuits!!

This was the special secret that Camden was working on the phone on New Year's Eve. We had such a great time visiting with friends and eating some awesome food!! Besides I have the rest of the year to diet and Wii Dance! Ha!

Bring Your Child To Work

What do you do when your day care closes on a Friday without much notice? Well, you take your child to work with you because you have such a nice boss and all!

Then you put him to work and make him decorate cupcakes for Amanda's son's birthday party! This is Amanda doing some mad frosting.

Here is Camden showing his mad frosting skills. He may be a Pastry Chef when he grows up?

Miss Amanda gave Camden some cupcakes so that he could "help."  He actually came up with this idea below on his own. He is pretty good! Got his talent from Mommy! Ha!!!

Here is the finished product for the party.

And this was just another hard day at the office! Ha! We really did work hard that day. The cupcake frosting bonanza happened on our break time!

Broken

There are things in this world that we will never understand, but I wanted to remember my family today that has suffered a horrible loss. My nephew, Nathen and his wife, Beth lost a Gift from God before it was ever received. Their baby daughter, Lillian, was born still. She got her angel wings before she ever entered the world. She is in a happy place but I want to lift up the Mom, Dad and brothers and sister that will never know what might have been. Only God knows and understands.  


As I was getting the news from my Mom last night and then passing it on to Tim, I didn't realize that I had little ears listening to me. So Camden's prayer last night was, "Lord thank you for taking baby Lilly up there with you because it was the right thing to do. She might have had a broken body part or something." 


Lord please bring Nathen and Beth peace and comfort as they begin to heal from the enormous pain of their loss.

Happy New Year

This is a list of things Camden said that we needed to do before Daddy comes home! I don't know why he wants us to get a Samsung TV?? Strange! We went to our friends to celebrate the New Year. We had some good food and some good laughs! I didn't take any pictures of the food but my awesome dip was there and some fabulous sugar cookies by Kerry!

This is Camden on the phone asking a special person for a special favor. More on that later....trust me, people will be jealous for years!

Cheers!! Yes, Camden is sweating. He had been outside playing with the dogs. We are going to have to get him some serious deodorant in a few years!!!

I hope that everyone has a very Happy New Year!!