Goodbye 2007

We hope you all have a fun and safe New Year's Celebration!!

Hail, Dear Old State...

Congratulations to the Mississippi State Bulldogs for their victory in the Liberty Bowl and to Derek Pegeus (a South Panola alum) for being named the player of the game!!

GO STATE!!

Christmas Part II

Charles and I traveled to Batesville for Christmas lunch with Mama and Jerry. We had a delicious lunch of ham, candied sweet potatoes, creamed potatoes, corn, butter beans, pink salad, deviled eggs, rolls and dessert of pound cake with strawberries and ice cream. After lunch came the really fun part...opening presents...

Mama always knows exactly what to get for me... She even traveled to the Delta to get the Peter's pottery tea pot I wanted (and a few other pieces)...
Mama always asks if we want presents and/or money.

I always say presents...and Charles always says money. Mama usually buys Charles a present or two anyway, but this year Charles got all money (and a little extra since he didn't get any "little presents"). That was just fine with Charles...
Mama opened her presents from me and from me and Charles (I think we did a good job this year)...

and then opened her presents from Charles (who always buys her something or two which she just loves and which I have no idea what it is until she opens the box)...Mama's presents out numbered Jerry's presents (sorry, Jerry), but he, Mama and Peanut had a good Christmas...After leaving Batesville, Charles and I went to Southaven to see what movies were playing. We were hoping that Juno would be showing but no such luck. We ended up seeing Walk Hard; it was okay. Then we drove all over town to see if any restaurants were open. Lucky for us a Chinese buffet was open.

Charles really enjoyed his Christmas egg drop soup! The whole time we were in the restaurant, we kept thinking of the scene in A Christmas Story were the family has to eat dinner at a Chinese restaurant...We left singing Fa, ra, ra, ra, ra...

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Morning

While Charles is enjoying the 12th or so hour of the 24 hour Christmas Story marathon, I thought I would share our Christmas morning...

Even though I am firmly into the age of adulthood, on Christmas (and Charles would tell you at other times too), I am still pretty much a child. I woke up at 4:30 this morning but willed myself to go back to sleep and slept until 5:30. I then waited (un)patiently until 6:00 to wake Charles up so that we could open presents.

I played Santa and divided our presents into our 2 piles, and Toula investigated to make sure it was done properly... Then she decided to play the part of the elf and help unwrap presents...
So, Charles and I decided that she should get her Christmas present first...
After Toula began nibbling on her Bunny Salad Bowl, it was time for me to open my gifts...

Charles always buys the best gifts, so while I am always surprised, I never have to worry...
Although I do have to be careful when opening each gift because a phone book, brick or other disguise may fall out of the box along with the gift...

This year the disguises were pecans (so that the rattling would throw me off), heavy magazines and newspapers...
But all of the presents were great!

Next it was time for Charles to open his presents...
He got his usual...a couple of shirts...
Something from Santa to the Willoughbys (which is always pottery or something for the house)...
And this year's "unusual" gift...

Tickets to Seinfeld who is coming to the Orpheum in March
After unwrapping our presents, Charles cleaned up all the paper and boxes and then cooked a yummy Christmas breakfast -- cheesy scrambled eggs, fried wienies, biscuits with butter and jelly and icy chocolate milk. Delicious!

Our Christmas wish...

We wish you all a Merry Christmas filled with joy, peace and happiness!


Merry Christmas from Charles, Megan and Toula

Dinner (lunch) and a Movie

After early Church this morning, Charles and I checked the movie schedule and found that several movies we wanted to watch were playing, so we had a yummy lunch at Guadalajara and then saw National Treasure 2. It was really good!! We both enjoyed the first movie, and this sequel was not a disappointment. We would definitely recommend seeing it!

Christmas, Part I

Last night, Charles and I went to Batesville for Christmas with Mama, Jerry, Shane, Donna and Jordan. We had a great time, and playing with Jordan was so much fun! Jordan loves to bounce and jump, so our arms and back got quite a workout!!
I forgot my camera, so I don't have any pictures of the get-together or any playful shots of Charles and me playing with Jordan, but here is the cute picture of him from their Christmas card this year...