Category Archives: Holiday

December 14, 2010 · 3:17 am

Christmas Quiz

I saw this adorable Christmas Quiz on Southern Cinderella‘s blog last week and I thought it was a cute idea!

So here goes!

1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate?

I love both! I can only drink a little egg nog at a time though it’s way too rich to drink a huge glass.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

Santa wraps presents and puts them out when we are sleeping Christmas Eve!

3. Colored lights or white lights on tree/house?

We use white lights so I tend to prefer white lights, but some people have really pretty displays with colored lights!

4. Do you have mistletoe?

Nope can’t say that we ever have

5. When do you put your decorations up?

Usually the weekend after Thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?

Dang desserts are my favorite…I would have to say deep fried turkey or roast and of course mashed potatoes!

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?

I always loved getting dressed up to go to church on Christmas Eve then going over my grandparent’s house. We would eat and open presents and we would always fall asleep on the way home! I also loved my aunt reading The Polar Express…it’s one of my favorites!

8. Do you open a Christmas gift on Christmas Eve?

Yes we do! Usually immediate family gives gifts to each other, then Christmas morning is Santa’s gifts

9. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

There’s no Santa?!?!?

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?

We use white lights then decorate with all the ornaments we can fit on it! The ornaments all have some type of meaning, like things we were doing the past year or something that we love. I get a lot of Gators ornaments or Bulldog ornaments or Elvis ornaments

11. Snow! Love it or hate it?

HATE IT! I live in the south for a reason!

12. Can you ice skate?

Barely! I’ve been a few times but normally hug the sides of the rink for dear life.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

Sure do-my stuffed zebra from my grandparents. I just loved him and I still sleep with him! I’ve had him for about 15 years.

14. What is the most important thing about the holidays for you?

The past few years it’s been getting to see my family. I don’t see them as often as I used to so I like traveling home and visiting for a couple weeks! I’m really grateful I have the opportunity to do this every year!

15. What tops your tree?

A glittery gold hummingbird in memory of my grandfather

16. What’s your favorite holiday tradition?

Christmas Eve. The girls bake all day then we all get dressed up and go to mass then come home and eat! After supper we make mudslides and open gifts from each other then watch a Christmas movie!

17. Do you prefer giving or receiving?

GIVING! I love seeing the look on someone’s face when they really love a gift!

18. What is your favorite holiday dessert?

Tollhouse pie!! Recipe here !

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?

I would say Angels We Have Heard on High. I just love that song! It’s beautiful.

20. Candy canes! Yuck or yum?

Yum!

21. What is your favorite Christmas special/movie?

This is a hard one! I LOVE Elf! That movie just kills me. I also love The Santa Clause and Home Alone.

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December 6, 2010 · 3:57 pm

A Floridian Christmas Tree in Mississippi!

I was thrilled to pieces the other day to come home and find this gem waiting for me:

A light-up palm tree!

I know how silly they are but I love them. I have no idea why. So when I was in Bealls Florida in October, I told my mom how much I wanted one and she sent one to me last week!

So being Christmas season, I decided to decorate it:

Merry Christmas y’all!

A lovely gold sparkly hummingbird and my “We wish you an MSU Christmas” ornament

I have several others on there including a Gator, a Bully, and some orange and blue streamers!

I also got this fabulous Christmas palm tree 40% off at Bealls in October. Yay for bringing a touch of Florida to Mississippi!

In other news…my Florida Gators are going to the Outback Bowl in Tampa this New Years Day, which is exciting, and my Mississippi State Bulldogs are going to the Gator Bowl in my fabulous hometown of Jacksonville the same day!

I thought Florida would go to the Gator Bowl, SC would go to the Outback Bowl, and Mississippi State would go to the Chick Fil-A Bowl…I feel like Miss. State deserved a “better” bowl than Florida (I hate to say it sorry Gators I love y’all!) since they finished 8-4 and Florida finished 7-5. But hey both of my teams are bowl bound so yay! Who were y’all rooting for in the SEC Championship? I personally was going for Auburn. I love seeing SEC teams in the National Championships!

Happy Monday!

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December 1, 2010 · 4:37 am

My favorite Christmas recipe/Rivalry Weekend!

With Thanksgiving comes Rivalry week in college football! I was able to watch the Auburn-Alabama game on Friday (Go Auburn!) as well as Boise State-Nevada. Both were great games to watch. As y’all know, my Florida Gators play the Florida State Seminoles during the rivalry week…

Obviously, I am NOT a fan of Florida State Noles…or the ending to the season they gave my Gators…
I still believe in the orange and blue! In all kinds of weather we all stick together for F-L-O-R-I-D-A! Go Gators! At least we are still bowl eligible…I just hope Coach Urbs gets it together for next season…maybe with a different quarterback? Just sayin’

In better news, my Mississippi State Dawgs played Ole Miss (known as TSUN-That School Up North in Starkville) at the Egg Bowl. This year the game was in Oxford.

And the Dawgs shut down Ole Miss!!

DAN THE MAN!! (It’s b/c he used to be a Gator

haha )

Hey Ole Miss! We just beat the hell outta you!

Mississippi State is also Bowl Bound this season!

And now for one of my all-time favorite holiday recipes:

Tollhouse Pie!

Ingredients:

9″ deep dish pie shell

2 eggs

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup butter (=1.5 sticks, softened)

1 cup (or more!) Nestle toll house semi sweet morsels

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees

Beat the eggs until foamy

Add flour, sugar, brown sugar, and butter. Beat.

Stir in the chocolate chips, and pour into the pie shell

Bake 55-60 minutes

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream!

We store the pie in the refrigerator

Enjoy!

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November 1, 2010 · 2:44 pm

Weekend Recap!

Gameday weekend and Halloween! Friday after working at school MC, George, Matt, Kevin and I set up the tailgate then went to supper at The Grill in Starkville (Liza had to work). They have the best cheese sticks! Then Matt, George and I went to my house and carved pumpkins!

Matt and George discussing the different hues of oranges of our pumpkins.

Cleaning out the guts

Poor pumpkins

The Carving Queen haha. Btw excuse my outfit. I was cold and we were getting pumpkin guts all over us.

Liza made it just in time to see the finished products!

From left: Matt’s “Beat Kentucky” pumpkin, my cowbell pumpkin, and my Bully pumpkin

Here they are again, but showing the other side of the cowbell pumpkin- MSU and paws

After Matt, Liza, and George left I baked for the tailgate and called it a night. Tailgate started bright and early at 8 am!

It was FREEZING at 8 am when we got out there. Pretty chilly fall day in Northeast MS!

Here are the pumpkins at the tailgate! Bully is dressed up like a ghost!

As y’all know, my fabulous Florida Gators had a big game Saturday vs. Georgia. Here I am cheering on the Gators from Starkville!

Girls at the tailgate

Matt and Liza

We were able to hang out, watch some football on the TV, and grill before we headed into the stadium! When I went into the stadium, the FL-GA game was 21-7. I had to rely on my phone to keep me up to date with the score! I about had a heart attack when it was 31-31 with 0:37 left on the clock! God must have known the Gators needed a win really bad! 34-31 GATORS!!! So proud for my orange and blue!!

Here’s a video of our stadium at MS State before the game! You might be able to hear me talking! I hope my voice isn’t as annoying as it sounds on the video!…but then again, no one sounds like themselves on video!

Pictures from inside the stadium!

3 Girls

Matt and Liza

George!

After an intense game with some horrible play calling, MS State got a 24-17 win over Kentucky. Go DAWGS!!! 7-2 so far this season!! I’m so proud that MS State is finally having a great season!

After the game we headed back out to the tailgate to make smores and watch some more football before heading home. It was so cold out! Hope y’all had a great Halloween weekend!

Also as a comment from my post about cowbells and respecting traditions: I am in no way comparing the noise from a cowbell to a vocal cheer like Roll Tide or Pig Sooie. I know how loud cowbells can get, especially when you’re not used to them (I had to get used to them too-remember I was a Gator first). It was just a post about respecting traditions. I was not comparing the noise factors.

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July 8, 2010 · 3:21 pm

Weekend Fun, Blog Awards, and Day 4 of 30 Day Blog Challenge

I had a great holiday weekend celebrating the 4th of July and my birthday (23—dang!). Here are some pictures from the weekend!

Some of our spread…we had hamburgers, hot dogs, corn, watermelon, red white and blue angel food cake, fried green tomatoes, and smores (with some red and blue Jello shots and other adult beverages haha!)

Matt and Nathan grilling!

Making fried green tomatoes! I love fried green tomatoes and I always look forward to summer so I can eat them!

Liza, me and Matt with sparklers!

Sparkler and firework fun!

Mary Catherine, me, Matt and Liza with smores!

Diana, Kevin, MC, and Abdul with smores!

My funny friends while we were shooting off fireworks and playing with sparklers!

Diana, me, Liza, MC!

Birthday girl! Headed off to lunch then the pool! Then we decided post-lunch to create our own pool…

…the beginnings of the “Redneck Waterpark”! Matt and Liza filling up the pool

Matt and Liza with Daisy in the pool! The pool was actually comfortably big enough for all of us!

Slip and slide!

I had such a fun birthday! We went to supper later then watched a movie and had ice cream cake!

Erin at Everything According to Erin was so sweet to give me this award!

The “You’re going places award”! Thanks Erin! For this award I’m supposed to share where I think I’ll be in 10 years. See my response to this award here!

Joanna at Dance and Dream 4Ever and Nicole at That’s Life both gave me The Versatile Blogger Award!

The rules to this one are thank the person who gave you the award (Thanks girls!! It means a lot to me!!), share seven things about yourself and pass the award on to 15 newly discovered bloggers.