Christmas Party Weekend-Part 1

Friday a girl I work with threw a party at her adorable townhouse. We went there and had a great time meeting new people and hanging out with my work friends. Then Saturday night was my work Christmas party at the boss's house like usual. We again had fun, they made a great dinner and we did the Chinese Christmas gift exchange. They were very generous as far as gifts this year and I just feel so blessed to even have a job right now. I love my little work family!

Brooke and I at the work party.

The girls with Kay and Gary

Kelli, Brooke and I at Kelli's party.

Josh was with me both nights like a trooper but I didn't get any pictures. This is really all the pictures I took all weekend, I'm not sure why...I must be sick or something.

Thank you Josh for coming to all my work functions with me :)

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Last night Josh and I attended CFA's IT Christmas Party. It was held at Anthony's Fine Dining, an old historic house that is now used for events like this. Dinner was great and we had a fun time but the best part was.....he won an award!!!!! (see below)
Anthony's-I just got this pic off the website but of course last night it was decorated for Christmas.

I made Jason take a picture after we got home, I didn't want to be the only blogger loser at the party taking pictures so I have none from there.

So excited about his award!!!! Let me explain. Every year the CIO does these award. There are categories that stay the same and then there are awards created just for that year. What's cute is that he makes every award in his garage by hand to represent the achievement and presents them at the Christmas party.

This year Josh played a major role in getting all new voice over phone systems set up. He was part of the network side of it. Well this year this award was created because it was a huge project and a very successful one. To explain the award, the dinosaur represents the "old" phone system that was 18 years old. Then the CFA cow (Josh) is using the rolled up phone users manaual to fight off the dino. I thought it was real cute and clever. So congrats Josh, I'm very proud of you and so happy that you were recognized for your accomplishment!!!

Catch up...

So here is what we've been doing lately. The weekend after our friends came in, my Mom came to stay. Trips to Atlanta mean even more to my mom now that Jason is here too. We had pretty relaxing weekend, decorating for Chirstmas, shopping at Garden Ridge and going to a Thrashers Hockey game. Thanks for coming to stay with us mom and for cooking and cleaning while you were here too ;)


At the Thrashers game

I love this sequence of pictures. We got everything done and I asked Josh if he would put the star on the tree so this is him doing just that.

Then here I am fixing it...hehehe...look at his face :). It's got to be perfect right??

And here we are glad to have the house decorated.

We didn't actually put these up that weekend. Josh wanted to surprise me when I got home on Sunday from Thanksgiving but he ended with a stomach virus so while Josh was laid up in bed his dad hung these for us. Thank you Bob, that was so sweet of you and it looks very festive. Sorry the picture isn't better.

Here is the tree. I wish you could see all of the color on it because I just don't think this picture does it justice but we love it! I think I want to get a bigger one next year :)

The kitchen is decorated with all of my blue snowman stuff to match the Christmas china Karen got me years ago. One day I will have a dining room to put all of that in but until then...

Here is Josh's man tree. It has Georgia Bulldog ornaments and other sports stuff.

I finally have some place to string garland. Yay!

And I finally have a mantle, even better Yay!

Moving on to the next weekend which was Thanksgiving. Jason and I went to Knoxville while Josh stayed in Atlanta to hang out with his family. We got home on Wednesday night and stayed pretty busy from there on out. We went to my Grandparents on Thursday and had the delicious tradional feast. Later that night we helped my mom put up her decorations since she was such a big help to us. Friday Mom and I did our traditional "black Friday" shopping. I haven't been shopping in Knoxville in years!! Friday afternoon we had lunch and Dad and Robin's and I got to see my Granny that I don't get to see often. We had a great time catching up and laughing at old stories. Friday night I went to Erin's to see all of Hayley's wedding progress and just to hang out with the girls (this is where I start getting tired since Mom and I got up at 3:45am to shop). Saturday was a pretty lazy day. We were going to go to the game but the weather was gross so we opted not to. It was so sad to watch Fulmer that night. I don't care what people say, I'm going to miss him :(. Overall it was a great time at home and I think I gained 10 pounds. Here are some pics.

I got almost all of my shopping done in one morning. THANK YOU BELK! The only person I didn't get was Mom and that's because she was with me. It was a very successful day!

Mom and I at her parents on Thanksgiving day.

My sweet Granny. We also celebrated her birthday at Dad's on Friday.

Posing with Granny

Jason and I with Robin. I look like I just ate a whole turkey in this picture.

Well that's about it for now. I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving. I know I have so much to be thankful for right now!!

Boys Weekend

I thought you would like this one of Josh, he's wearing Dozer's jersey.

Well I'm really behind on blogging. We've had to lay several people off at my company so I've been a little busier than usual. Three weekends ago our best guy friends came in town, Travis and Mikey. We have all been friends since middle school and we always have a blast together. We didn't do a whole lot, weent out for tapas on Saturday night and just hung out the rest of the time. Here are some pics. I promise I'll get updated soon. I have pics from my mom's visit to ATL, Christmas decoations, the joys of having large trees full of leaves over your yard, Thanksgiving and more. Stay tuned!

Me and the boys-Josh, Me, Travis, and Mikey.