My year in review.....2010

JANUARY and FEBRUARY

Jan brought lots and lots of snow...which I love. We no sooner cleaned up from one and then another hit! My kind of winter.

And on Jan 7th my mom celebrated 5 years cancer free!

MARCH

I attended my first arena footbal game and was able to score nice tickets to the CAA Tournament!

I also had my 500th blog post!

APRIL and MAY

Spring brought a lot of family gatherings and a very special trip to the beach....where our daughter became engaged!

JULY and AUGUST

These 2 months brought a few beach trips, canning a lot of tomatoes, cook outs, new camera lens and sadly, the return of cancer for my mom.

SEPTEMBER

We celebrated our daughter's engagement with a big ole engagement party.

Johnny's sisters from Georgia and Texas came into town and we all traveled to the beach after the party!

OCTOBER

I really started booking lots of photo sessions in 2010 with Sept Oct and Nov being my busiest months. I also did my very first doggie photo shoot!

NOVEMBER

We got our new puppy......Miss Bella Boo!!

DECEMBER

and as always celebrating a wonderful Christmas season with our family and friends.

It's been a great year with a lot of life's usual ups and downs but we got through it.

I feel so very blessed to have my family, friends, job and health. Life is good in so many ways and I really look forward to 2011.

We'll have a wedding and lots of fun times. And we'll all continue to pray for my mom's continued improvements!!

Lots of love to all of my friends out in blog land!!

I so enjoy keeping up with all of you and especially hearing from you. And you know me....I'll just be enjoying life!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Tacky lights......

Johnny and I went riding around last Thursday looking at lights

these are from the neighborhood beside our's

at least Johnny doesn't go this crazy with our lights...yet

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Bella's first Christmas......

Our new pup Bella Boo enjoyed her first Christmas

she didn't quite understand the unwrapping of gifts like Chrissy girl does

but she sure did enjoy getting a new bed for Christmas

here she is enjoying it.......



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Christmas 2010....

We had so much fun on Christmas!!

The fun started with Christmas eve.......family and friends over for dinner

And then Christmas morning..........up at 5:20 am!! yes, 5:20!

Now, my kids are grown...they are 28, 23 and 22 yrs old

Nicole is 28 and no longer lives at home

Jacquelyn is 23 and no longer lives at home but did spend the night on

Christmas eve

Our son Jake, he is the youngest at 22 and is still home with us

and he is the one that walked into our bedroom Christmas morning at 5:20 and said to me........"Mom, I can't help it, I can't sleep. Can we get up now"

haha.....

Johnny said he thought once they grew up we would be able to sleep in some on Christmas morning. Guess he's wrong on that.

But it was lots of fun and we're still enjoying it! We all got lots of electronics and here we are all sitting around Christmas night, watching the Dallas game and playing with our new stuff.



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Snow...

We were warned all week of an upcoming East Coast snow storm

but then on Friday, our dreams of a white Christmas was gone

they changed the forecast!

nothing....maybe a dusting but no storm

Then on Christmas eve when I went to bed at 11:00, I turned the news on

and everything had changed........totally changed

we were sitting pretty for a snow storm heading up the coast

all major news reporting were giving out 3 different forecast

no one could agree

then on Christmas day it came together and started to snow!

so beautiful

as of Sunday we had 4 inches on the ground and so beautiful to wake up to

Bella Boo has really enjoyed it

she uses her face as a plow

I forgot to put hair conditioner on her and the snow balls clung to her so bad it took us about 30 min to get her cleaned up



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Christmas 2010...the aftermath.....

 My house is a mess

every available floor space is stacked with opened gifts

But I will try to stifle the neat freak part of me and enjoy just one more day of relaxing, playing, eating and drinking coffee all day

But tomorrow........the clean up begins!!

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Merry Christmas......

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and Happy New Year!

I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas and a year filled with the love and happiness that is the magic of Christmas

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Christmas eve....

there's magic in our home on Christmas eve

I hope it's in your home too!

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone from The Delaney family!!

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Jake....

I bet he's hoping Santa brings him some more games.....

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Cookies.....

I don't usually make too many cookies at Christmas

mostly just making candies

But we love these little cookies

they look like little snowballs

some call them Russian Tea cookies..

I'm not sure what they are called but they sure are good!!

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Maddox.....

Maddox, our 5 year old grandson....the love of our life

so precious and really growing up!



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Bella Boo........

I think Bella Boo belongs in the circus......

the amazing flying dog



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Lights....

Christmas lights look prettier in the snow.......

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Snow...

People that know me and blog friends who have followed me know that I LOVE SNOW!!!

Love it.........I turn 10 yrs old when it snows!

and Thursday, we got some snow!!

not much....only 2 inches at my house but whatever, it was snow and it was beautiful. So many times it snows at night in Virginia and we never get to see it falling but not Thursday.......it snowed all day!

I worked from home so I sat at the kitchen table facing the french doors so that's all I looked at all day!

Chrissy girl normally loves the snow but she had been sick the night before so she just didn't want to be bothered with it.

But little Bella Boo had never seen snow so she was loving it.

she would look up to the sky and squint her eyes as the snow fell on her face.



haha...look at Chrissy girl......she knows it's smart to stay by the fire!!

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Dec 17th....

oops....looks like someone shot Johnny's fake deer.....

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Christmas treats.....

Every year I make goodies to give to friends and neighbors

this year is no different.......well, except that I usually have Jacquelyn and/or Jake to help me. They haven't been over to help this year....yet!

here is one of my favorites......Buckeyes!!



here they are ready to put the toothpicks in and put in the freezer for a little while. And see that awesome red candlestick holder....love it! Found it at

Home Goods.

and now they have been dipped and are ready to wrap in candy wrappers.



all ready to be packaged and given as gifts!

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Dec 15th...

We are expecting snow tomorrow........

again, more snow!

woo hoo!!

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Doggie haircuts....

Both Chrissy and Bella Boo are now all ready for christmas with their new haircuts!

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More decorations.....

Just some pictures from around the house of our Christmas decorations......



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