Ho...Ho...Ho... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Happy Birthday JESUS!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!! Josh and I enjoyed the time with our family and friends. We enjoyed eating sweet potato casserole, brown sugared ham, dressing, dumplings, broccoli casserole, and soooo much more. We definitely enjoyed opening all of our presents, but most of all we enjoyed celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ. I was telling Josh on the way home that Christmas has just flown by and now we are starting another year. He told me that Christmas shouldn't be and wasn't over, and that we should carry the gift of Christmas with us everywhere we go!! This is so true and I wish that every person could get excited everyday about Jesus as much as they get excited about Christmas. I will have to admit that opening presents is sooo exciting and fun, but why don't we give people who don't know Jesus, the real gift of Christmas! It is the best gift anyone could give or receive. So even though Christmas is over (based on our calendar), let Jesus shine through you and keep giving the greatest gift of all, JESUS!! Have a blessed holiday!!!

Pictures to come later of our Christmas!!

Happy Birthday Dad!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WONDERFUL DAD!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU AND MANY MORE!!

LOVE YOU LOTS!!

HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL DAY!

Parties, Parties, and MORE Parties

Josh's Christmas Party- singing christmas carols.
Mrs. Brenda wasn't happy about her dirty santa gift!!!
Aunt Kathy got some singing and dancing reindeer!
Josh and I gave the lovely hostesses a nice GAG gift!
My Christmas Work Party!! (All the Wedding Divas)
All the Wedding Divas and their husband/boyfriends and children!!
Helping Luke make his snowman!!
Josh helping Jacob make reindeer food.
John Luke with his reindeer food!!

John Luke, Jacob, and Luke.

We were missing Ty, Maggie Ruth, Tanner, Kadin, and Joseph.

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas!! Josh and I have been busy with one party after another. We had Josh's work party last tuesday, Ladies Prayer Meeting/Party last thursday, Sunday School Party last saturday, Puggles Party Wednesday, my work party thursday, and Josh's cousin's party last night. I wish I had about 5 more, because I love christmas parties and playing dirty santa. Plus there are so many fun treats to eat during christmas. I just wanted to post a few pictures of our parties!! We had a great time at all of them and can't wait till Wednesday for some more family time!! Well until next time, We hope you have a Merry CHRISTmas and a Blessed New Year!!!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Mom's 50th Birthday Our little family about 21 years ago!! I just wanted to wish my mom and dad a HAPPY 36th ANNIVERSARY!!!

I love yall both and hope you have a wonderful day!!!

Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day!

We take a picture in front of this tree every thanksgiving!! It is so beautiful!!
My Aunt Cindy's Fall Decorations!!
Thanks Sherry for getting me my turkey decoration!!
More of my Aunt Cindy's crafty decorations!!

My mom and me

My Dad and me

My brother and me!

Hello Everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It has been quite busy around our house. I was over the Elba Christmas Pageant this year and it consumed almost 2 months of my life. It came and went and was a great success. I am now on the road to taking the GRE for PT School and trying to get my application finished and turned in. Boy, will I be ready when that is all finished!!! Josh celebrated his 24th birthday last friday. We helped him celebrate with peanut butter pie, peanut butter cake, and his Grandma's wonderful chocolate cake. He had a great birthday and got to share his family party with his brother who finally got to come home from Fort Stewart wednesday.

After begging Josh for a week or two now, he finally decided he would give in and get all of my christmas decorations out!!! YAY for Christmas time!!! They are up and I am still debating on where to put a few things!! I had a different house to decorate this year, so I had to rearrange a little.

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful week and happy shopping for those who haven't already bought all their gifts. I am definitely not the shopper who gets up bright and early in the morning. I need my sleep too much. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE to shop, but it can wait until atleast 8 o'clock.

Hope you enjoy the pictures from our fabulous Thanksgiving!!!

Sorry Mrs. Brenda, I didn't have any pictures of my other family on my camera. :D

My New Blog

My boss decided that it would be a good idea for me to start a new blog of all the fun and exciting things I do at work. This is definitely my favorite time of the year because it is our slow season and I get to play and create lots of new designs. I absolutely love using my creative side and creating new invitations, programs, birth annoucements, enclosure cards,etc. Please check out my new blog at http://www.invitationstation.blogspot.com/.
I would also like to ask you to please add our websites to your links. http://www.wiregrassweddings.com/ and www.programsandbulletins.com.

Happy Halloween!!!

Here are some pictures from Puggles and Trunk or Treat tonight!!

It was a blast and the kids were all adorable!! The soon to be President and Vice President made a special

appearance as well. I present to you John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Our sweet class watching Boz!

TRICK....

OR...TREAT!!!

Jacob the Builder, Tanner the Cowboy, Ty the Army Boy, and John Luke the Dog

One year ago today...

Josh and I were saying "I DO."


We cannot believe how fast time has flown by and the fact that we have already been married a year. It has been a wonderful first year and I wouldn't trade him for anything in this world. I can't even begin to imagine my life without him. I can only think back to almost 7 years ago, when God had everything so perfectly planned out. Josh walked into Ino Baptist to play for the True Love Waits Rally, and just something about his beautiful blue eyes (and of course the way he strummed his guitar) made me know that he was the cutest thing ever and I wanted him to be my boyfriend. :) After talking with him and going on our first date only 2 weeks later, you would have rarely found us apart. Now 7 years later, we have been happily married a year. He is truely a blessing to me and I can't thank God enough for sending me such a wonderful husband and amazing friend.

Introducing....

WESLEY COLE JOHNSON!!!
Cole finally decided to come into this world on Friday, September 26th. He was born at 12:40 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce and 20 1/4 inches long. He looks just like his daddy. Brandi and Wesley are sooo excited and can't wait to bring him home. They had him all dressed in his Alabama attire as soon as he arrived, ready to help cheer Alabama to a victory over Georgia. Sorry, I don't have any close up pictures of Cole, just ones of us holding him.

The sign Josh and I had made for Cole!

He was sooo precious!!

Josh (all grins) after meeting his baby cousin.

Mr. Perry and Baby Cole.

Mrs. Brenda and Baby Cole!

Pictures from our back window!!

Ever since we got a hummingbird feeder at our living room window, we have seen many visitors. Josh and I have been keeping the camera beside the window to get some of these fun shots. I hope yall enjoy looking at the pictures as much as we enjoyed trying to catch them on film. Our squirrel friend!!

The HUGE spider we spotted today while washing Josh's car! CREEPY!!!

Our sweet little squirrel friend again!!! He comes around the same time everyday!!
Our hummingbird friend!!
Our sweet bird friend!!

Sweet Blessings

As most of you know, Josh and I have the wonderful privledge this year of teaching the Puggles in Awanas. They are the 2 and 3 year olds and they are such a blessing to teach. I just wanted to post a few pictures of our first, good, organized night. We finally got a room that we could stay in ALL night, so we don't have to pick up everything and move from room to room. It was GREAT!!

Doing our lesson, "God made the sky"

Josh just finished helping Ty with his art.

They were saying "Cheeseburger".

It's Beach Time!!!

Our Trip!

Reggae J's Island Grill- We ate on the very top of the restaurant, overlooking the ocean and pier.

Just another sweet picture!! Don't you just love pretty pics on the beach!!

Our Good Friends, Mark and Misty!!

My handsome honey!!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this picture!!!

Montego Bay- the best blackened amberjack in PCB

Pier Park

This is a cool picture of us and our friends taken from a man on stilts in the restraunt.

Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville

Petting the Stingray!! They were very slimy!

I loved the penguins!

I love this picture of the sea lion!

The beautiful flamingos!

Josh was even a little scared when trying to take a picture with the bird!

I thought this bird was really pretty!

I was just a little scared about getting too close to the bird!!

The dolphin being friendly with the crowd!!

Josh and I packed our bags and headed to PCB last Thursday. My wonderful great aunt and uncle let us have their beach house for the weekend and we had an absolute blast with some of our good friends from Auburn. Our friends, Misty and Mark, didn't get to the beach until Friday afternoon, so Josh and I had a nice night by ourself on Thursday. We decided to be kids for a day and go to Gulf World on Friday. It was so much fun and just a nice time to spend some quality time together. Mark and Misty arrived Friday afternoon just in time for a couple of hours on the beach! Considering the double red flags, we took the risk and enjoyed riding the waves and throwing frisbee. After enjoying a very good meal at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, we shopped at Pier Park!! Due to the rain on Saturday, we didn't think we were going to be able to go to the beach, but it cleared up right after breakfast and we were able to net fish, feed the seagulls, and even argue over whether we saw a shark or a dolphin. Which we think ended up being both, VERY CLOSE TO WHERE WE WERE!! We didn't think we were getting any sun, because it was very cloudy, but of course you know what they say, "You get the most sun, when it is cloudy." We believe this to be very true. Saturday night was great as well, we enjoyed some Jamaican music at Reggae J's Island Grill. We ate our appetizers on the very top of the restaraunt. It was amazing!! So overall we had a great weekend. Josh and I almost decided to stay another night and just call in, but we thought we better not!! AND LET ME NOT FORGET THE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING THOMAS DOUGHNUTS!! Chocolate glazed, I think I ate 10 of them this past weekend. :) But they were FANTASTIC!!!

Sorry for all the pics, but my slideshow wouldn't work!!

I still have plenty more, but don't want to bore you! ENJOY!