Christmas with the Earnest's

Last night we had the Earnest Christmas get together at my cousin Janet's house. We all bring an appetizer/dessert and we played dirty Santa this year. This is always one of my favorite Christmas get togethers because I love appetizers...I could eat them all day! We always have a good time and its great seeing everyone! Wes, Granny and me

Amanda and Allee

Getting ready to play dirty Santa... (Haley in my lap)

My cousin Dewayne's little girl, Haley. She is absoultely precious!

Wesley and me

Aiden just being Aiden...too cute!

Riley's Birthday Weekend

Last weekend for Riley's birthday we went to Birmingham for the night. We stayed at the Highland Hotel in Downtown Birmingham. The hotel was so nice and everyone that worked there seemed to be too! We walked to the restaurant and had what Riley says was the "best meal he has ever had," but he says that a lot. It was very good! It is a place called 26 and it has a sister restaurant called Oceans that we have eaten at several times before and liked it as well. The atmosphere was so much fun...I wished Tuscaloosa would get a few of those restaurants!! The next morning we had made plans to walk to the Original Pancake House to eat breakfast. Oh wow!!! If I wasn't full the night before, I was definitely full then!! Riley had the bright idea that because it was his birthday and it didn't know when we could get back to Birmingham for breakfast that he wanted pancakes and us to split an omelet. I know, I know we shouldn't be so wasteful and this time of year...I felt so bad about it. But we usually don't do that and it WAS his birthday so we did. He ordered pancakes and I ordered hawaiian pancakes and we split the omelet that we didn't know ALSO came with pancakes!!! SO let me tell you people were definitely looking at us and our table full of food! A lady walking by looked down at our table and started whispering to her husband who then also looked down at our table! I was quite embarrassed but it didn't seem to bother Riley he just kept eating. He ate a good portion but I couldn't get much of mine down and because it had pineapple and powdered sugar, it was sweet so I felt like I was eating a big cake. I know how to please my husband....lots of good FOOD! :)

Happy Birthday Riley!

Tuesday was Riley's 31st Birthday. Hope you had a wonderful birthday!

I couldn't ask for a better husband!!! I love you!!

Triplet Update

Riley and I went to visit Wade and Mandy and to hopefully see the girls on Sunday. Well, because they were in ICU there is odd times that you can see them and we had just barely missed it and the next time wasnt for 4 hours. But, we did get to see Wade and Mandy and they released Mandy while we were there. She is doing great and looks awesome! We did get to watch videos of the babies and see pictures. The babies are doing fabulous! Audrey, the one that weighed 4-7 has already taken her first full bottle by herself! They other girls arent far behind either. In the videos you could see them laying on their stomachs and pushing up on their toes...almost like they were doing push ups. The doctors said Audrey may be able to go home soon and the others hopefully before Christmas. Sorry I don't know which is which in the pictures...they sent these to me.

Look how long!

Annual Christmas Party

This past weekend was our Annual Christmas Party. I love this time of year. I have been having a Christmas party since college and it just continued and is now a tradition. We always have TONS of food which is my favorite part (I mean other than the good company! :) This year we didn't have as many people as normal because of the game and so much going on as it always is in December...but we still had a great time! It was so great to see everyone.

Riley's sister, Amanda and our friend Elaine

The Triplets are here!!!

Our friends that I posted about earlier, Wade and Mandy that were expecting triplets just had them today. She did great because she went what is considered full term for triplets (34 weeks). Yesterday they had scheduled the C-section for today at noon. I got a text message around 1:15 that said all the babies were healthy little girls. They weighed 4-7, 4-5, and 4-2. She named them: Audrey Kate, Caroline McColl and Emma Grace. We are so happy for them! Please pray for them that they keep doing well and also for Wade and Mandy as they make this transition with 3!!!
** We plan to go to Birmingham to see them Sunday after church so I will post pictures then.

Iron Bowl 08

I first have to start off by saying ROLL TIDE!!! I am so proud of Alabama this year...they have worked so hard and it has payed off! We had a great time Saturday even though it was a messy day. We had several people to tailgate this weekend. Becca's family was able to come out and it was great seeing all of them! My friend Cyndee and her husband Dan came and so we were able to catch up since I had not seen her since her or talked to her much since her wedding in October. One of my favorite parts of tailgating is not only just watching Alabama football, but seeing and spending time with friends also...but watching the game and being in the midst of other fans is a plus too!

After the game Cyndee, Dan, Becca, Zach, Riley and I went to Chuck's Fish to eat. It was so good! It is one of my favorite places to eat. It was fun to because they had a Motown band playing so we got to listen to the band while we ate.

The tailgate

Rileys brother Brian, Slim, Robbie & Riley