Toys for Tots

The Holiday season has definitely started. We had two holiday parties over the weekend and two more this week. We are also getting ready for the Christmas dinner Stuart and I are putting together for our friends. It is so much fun, and as you all know, a bit tiring.

Saturday we went to a Toys for Tots party. We brought a remote control dinosaur(which he was reluctant to give up), a carebear and tinkerbell doll. I was told by the preschoolers at the Rec. Center that Tinkerbell is WAY COOL! The party gathered two truck loads of toys!We enjoyed the spirt of giving and had a great time at the party. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope your holiday season is filled with joy and laughter.

Happy Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving started at 5am with both of us having to get up to go to work. The Recreation Association Annually Turkey Trot Race went off with out a hitch. There is a first year for everything :)

We had 1200 people this year running Thanksgiving morning.

We packed up, cleaned and I was on my way home by 11am. I cleaned the house and started prepping for the Thanksgiving meal. 7 of our friends came over to feast on turkey with home made gravy, twice baked mash potatoes, caramelized onion stuffing, rolls and green been casserole. Pumpkin and apple pie for dessert. Yummy!

After dinner we watched football and some took naps but everyone had an all around good time. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Maybe next year we can all be together.

AFL Grand Final

Well the AFL (Australian Rules Football) Final was on Saturday, September 27, 2008. We had a couple of friends over and watched the Hawthorn Hawks beat the Geelong Cats. Which was a very good thing for our house is a Hawks house. For anyone who has never seen an AFL game, which is very exciting, I have found the highlights of the game on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5CbARay50

Sorry to all of the Geelong Cats fans. GO HAWKS!!!!

29th Birthday

Thank you to everyone who wished me Happy Birthday. Stuart gave me flowers and took me to the beautiful restaurant Red Fish. I still can't believe I only have one more year to go before the big 30.

Golf Tournament 08

Saturday, August 16 the Rec. had it's annual golf tournament held on Daufuskie Island. I had to work it and Stuart got to play. Is that fair? We went over on the Friday night and left after the tournament. Daufuskie is a beautiful place were people mostly use golf carts to get around. Stuart's team didn't win but they were close to the winning score. All in all it was a fun weekend!

Fouth of July 2008

Happy 4th of July to all! We spent a wonderful afternoon at our friends BBQ. We played card games, volleyball, and watched fireworks. Not to mention all the awesome food we ate: ribs, turkey, baked mac & cheese, rice & beans, all sorts of salads, chicken wings, and to top it off a lowcounty boil. There were desserts also but I just didn't get to them.

They went in the morning to catch this crab for the lowcountry boil! The fireworks show was fun, though some didn't quite go where they were suppose to.

Hope you had as great a day as we did!

the simple things

It's the simple things in life that make you smile. I saw these ducks when I was walking home from work. I hope they brighten your day like they did mine.