Prom in December

Our friends Hudson and Amanda Denney throw the biggest Christmas party every year. It always has a theme and you have 2 weeks to plan your outfit. In the past there has been an oyster roast, cocktail party, white trash Christmas and a Camo Christmas just to name a few. This year for the 10th annual--80s Prom! So ...I borrowed my sister's prom dress that literally cost more than my wedding dress and hit the town!

Sooo ...October 2007

We spent a weekend at Bluffs Lodge on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a weekend at the beach and a weekend with the Dilocker's watching the Vols kick some Dawg tail!

A Football December

We started December with the shocking trip to see the Vols play in the SEC Championship where we spent the first 3 quarters making plans to visit New Orleans. I say shocking because--who would have thought it was possible to even be there this year? Or should I call it shocking because of the Ainge interceptions?





And we rounded out the month watching the Demon Deacons in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte. Pretty convenient playing in Charlotte--much closer than their previous choice of Miami. Besides, it is always nice to see a team lay a whoopin' on UCONN.





Still waiting on that trip to the Sugar Bowl ...

May the Force Be With You

So ...the entire family decided to dress up for Halloween this year. Actually, Madison wanted to be Princess Leia and Brennan wanted to be Luke Skywalker.

David decided to be Darth Vader
so then I had to dress up too. I was Natalie Portman's character -- don't know her name.

Camping in the Smokies and Birdie comes home

So the discussion about what to do for Spring Break came up early this year. What to do? Where to go?



We talked about skiing in Colorado, Utah or Montana. We talked about going to Big Sky and Yellowstone (closed in late March for plowing). We talked about going to the beach, New York or the Caribbean. Friends were going to places as unexotic as Litchifield Beach and as exotic as France. The pressure was on.



After hours of research and multiple trips to the AAA office for tourbooks ...we jokingly suggested going camping. The joke grew legs and after lots of talk we decided to rent an RV and go to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Plans were to first camp in Cades Cove, then maybe move to Elkmont and finally finish the week in town and take the kids to Dollywood.



We grew excited talking about black bears, hiking, roasting marshmallows and seeing the butterflies at Dollywood. I was excited about cooking in a dutch oven over the fire. Did you know you can cook anything that you can cook in an oven over some coals?!?!?



Plans changed pretty quickly when we found out that for the first three nights of our trip it was going to be below freezing with snow predicted on Monday.

A campaign to eliminate my status as the worst blogger ever ...

Wow, it is really embarrassing to see the date of my last post!

My goodness ...where have the last six months gone?

I blame this on the enormous capacity of the memory card in my digital camera. It is so huge that I never have to upload pictures to the computer. As a matter of fact, there are still pictures on there from when we got Birdie. Sad, I know.

I do think about updating my blog ...really, I do. It just doesn't happen--only in my head. If only I could blog telepathically. But I can't, so I have to sit and type--which I will try and do this week.