Top 10 from 2010

Here's 10 of my favorite pictures from 2010!

 Playing in the snow!

 A random stop in Australia.  

 Loving my friends in New York City!

 A fun summer afternoon on Beaver Lake!

 My toes in the sand!

(and what beautiful toes they are!:)

  

My friend Mike and I batting at Miracle League!

Ma, myself, Mom and Hadleigh June on the front porch!

Two of the LOVES of my life!

Bryan and I at the Bellagio for our anniversary weekend!

Sweet time with my bestie.  It's hard being so far apart.  

 2010 has been a year of learning, seeing, and doing!  I'm learning how to be a wife, how to be a better friend, a better listener....and how to hold my tongue.  I fail miserably frequently.  I've also seen and experienced things this year that have changed my life.  I have held, hugged and loved on children....from my niece and nephew here in Arkansas, to children in orphanages half way around the world.  I have seen "need" and I have seen "excess" this year.  

I have bought a house, circled the globe, vacationed, visited friends, laughed...and cried along the way!  

I really, really love New Year's! It's such an exciting time to make plans for a fresh year.  And I love any holiday that involves champagne.  I also love a NEW planner (yes, the paper kind you use a pencil with....) and a new calendar hung on my wall!  So clean and new.  It's right up there with new school supplies, which also make me very happy.   

I can't wait to see what 2011 brings.  

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?

For auld lang syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,

we'll take a cup of kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

Princess Shoes....

It was a great Christmas weekend.  Lots of family, eating, and relaxing.  And did I mention, eating? 

On another note...Santa knows me too well.  I was very excited about my new sparkly shoes.  Someone else also really liked them, and she got her own pair of princess shoes for Christmas from her Aunt Katie.  

And here she is showing Papa and Grandad the princess shoes.  I love Grandad and Papa's expressions.  Pretty priceless.

I told Had today, to make sure her foot grew to a size 9, because she was in line to inherit my shoe collection when I'm too old to wear them.... :)    

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Christmas fun in pictures!  More to come...

 Hadleigh and I in front of my crazy pile of glitter tree! :)  I've given up on her looking at the camera most of the time...she's too busy.  

 I LOVE having a house full of friends!  I'm blessed with lots of good ones!

 Bryan and I, and I am sporting my "carrot top" earrings, a special gift made for me by my friend Greg!

 Jami, Monica, Lindsey and Shawn!  

 My Carmen, myself and Kate-o!

My sweet friend Jarah!

 Myself, Kati and Whitney at the Bullington's...

TEAM party! 

I LOVE these ladies!

 Having fun and being silly at the TEAM party!  

Amanda, myself, Kelly, Whitney and Kati!

Cuddling on the couch at Mamaw's with the pups and my girls! :)

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, and takes time to slow down and remember Jesus, and the miracle of his birth.  This Christmas season I have read and heard several things about the shepherds.  I have never really given them TOO much thought, they were just out in their fields, watching their flocks...and then an angel came and gave them the good news of the Savior's birth!  But I've really been thinking about what it must have been like for them, going to see Jesus, and then spreading the word about Jesus' birth.  They weren't religious leaders, or mighty influential people....they worked in the fields.  And God picked them to tell first.  I love that he picked the common, lowly people in society's eyes, to tell about the birth of Jesus.  A great reminder of no matter what your position or place in this world, you can do mighty things through Him.