A sneak peek

Well I've uploaded all the Christmas pictures and will now attempt to commentate and relate the holiday with words. It may take some time but this week I'll be posting some for sure.

North Carolina will be next. Here's a sneak peek of NC.








We had so much fun! Lots of words for that too!

Uploading pics is awful

I am pausing the uploading of pictures briefly to state that I HATE uploading pictures to my blog immensely! HATE! HATE! HATE! It takes forever to do as well as decide what photos are worthy as well as edit photos as well as trying to make sense of all the photo bombing!

As of this moment, ALL photo bombers are grounded!

Grounded I say!

It may be DAYS before another post.

Mood:disgusted

Even though Christmas 2011 came and went in a flash, we had such a fun time. Becky and Keith arrived in town on Friday and Carrie flew in on Christmas Eve evening due to a Scrooge. And once we all gathered for our official roll call, there was only one missing this year.....disease. Thank the good Lord it was booted out of our festivities. It felt wonderful not to be achy and chilled with fever this Christmas. The only thing that tried to dampen our spirits was a rainy night, but despite the drizzly eve, Carrie was fetched from the airport just in time to make it for our annual Christmas Eve communion at our church. Then once again we got in our 100 car caravan (OK maybe that's an exaggeration) and gathered together at Grandma's for our Christmas Eve breakfast, visiting and inevitable goofiness. There was much goofiness. There's always much goofiness. This year due to my well health I was able to help cook breakfast along with Becky, Olivia and Whitney, who by the way cooked 68 biscuits for 22 people. But they were delicious! No pictures were taken of the cooks which I now realize is and always has been a terrible oversight. Maybe we'll start that next year!

Anyway while the four of us cooked, many goofy people took many goofy pictures starting with the following.

Addy, Addy, Addy

Since I've been home I've been trying to catch up on my clothes washing and house cleaning. I wash clothes fairly regularly, yet the baskets of clean clothes may sit in the den for days until I get motivated to fold. I hate folding. Well, today I decided to not procrastinate and fold because even though I hate folding, I hate looking at baskets full of clean clothes even more. I'm not even gonna address the fact that I was gone for almost a week and yet I only found 3 pair of clean underwear belonging to Owen. I have no idea what the two Herrock males did while we were gone, but I'm pretty sure it didn't involve cleanliness.

One other thing, you gotta love Louisiana weather if you aren't a person that loves lots of coldness. Yesterday it was 44 degrees. Today, it's 64. LOVE IT! So I opened my back door to enjoy the sound of my wind chimes singing in the breeze as I began the folding of the clothes, while Addy came in and out and looking for mayhem. After I finished, I busied myself doing something else and then sat down at the computer for a bit. When I finally looked up, I noticed some clean clothes were missing. After IMMEDIATE further inspection, I found all my underwear strewn about the living room AND the backyard! When I checked all the clothes, I discovered MY drawers were the only target of Addy's relocating. After "discussing" it with her, this is the attitude I got.

A picture of her indifference.

One more Addy story.
Yesterday morning as I was waking up, I heard Addy bark in the den so I knew she was in the house. Not long after, John let her out into the backyard and as he was about to leave for work he came and asked me if she was with me in the back of the house. She wasn't. He said she wasn't in the backyard, and so the two of us ran around the house and yard yelling for her but she wasn't to be found. John quickly grabbed his keys and jumped in my car to start looking through the neighborhood for her. Our yelling woke Emma and Olivia up and the three of us continued to yell and look for her. I decided to go look outside one more time and as I walked to the back of the yard, I saw her lying down hidden by some flower pots. We were immediately relieved and as I got closer, I discovered she'd gotten caught by a vine in a place where we couldn't see her. She looked rather sheepish as I pulled her free and quickly bounded off to Olivia. WHATEVER. I just saved your life you ungrateful brat but you run to Olivia! She's ridiculous. The MOST ridiculous thing is the goofy dog talks ALL THE TIME but when she gets in trouble, she became silent. After hearing this story, Carrie commented that "Obviously she was speechless." I guess so.

She was so disturbed, she was unable to rest at all yesterday.

A picture of her uneasiness.

I'm off to work wearing backyard underwear!

Home is so good

We are home after a successful trip to North Carolina where we watched some basketball, drove and drove and drove, and then drove some more. If the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area is 600 square miles, then we rode over every single inch. And I'm not even kidding. I've got lots to blog about with Christmas as well as our trip, but not tonight. I'll work on it as fast as I can.

For now, have a look at Addy's new collar, a present from Caitlin. Maybe they need a super cute pupper for a mascot.