Almost 2009!

Can you believe it?!?!? It's almost 2009! I remember this time last year thinking gosh I can't wait for it be 2008! WOW..what a year!

Our Christmas was so great! SO busy but great!! Christmas Eve started out by going to church with the Hammarlunds at Amie's church in Decatur, Briarlake Church. Then we headed to my Aunts house in Stone Mountain for dinner and visiting! There was 28 of us there for dinner and it was so wonderful!!

Christmas morning we went over to my mom's house for presents there! The girls are getting so big but it's still so much fun! Then we went back to Eric's parents house for presents and lunch there! Then we headed to the movies to see Marley and Me!! It's probably my favorite movie now!!! I loved it! Then Eric and I picked up my sisters and headed to my Dads fiance's house for Christmas dinner! It was great meeting her children and parents for the first time.

The day after Christmas was filled with more packing and getting ready for the big move! And we surprised my family and went to Leslie and Todd's for day after Christmas dinner! I got to hold baby Aidan a whole bunch!! I'm going to miss holding that baby!!! :(

Saturday was MOVING DAY!! We had my mom, all my sisters, Eric's mom, Amie, Brian and Melody all helped us move!! We had a lot of help!! Moving is not my favorite thing but when it comes down to the day it goes by fast and not so hard!

Eric is back to work after the holiday and getting ready for the next holiday! We are so excited because we are going to Baton Rouge for Eric's best friend, Kenny's sisters wedding this weekend!! YAY!

So funny story...Eric and I got keys made yesterday for our new place...so I get up and some things around the house and get ready for the gym. I go to lock the door behind me but the key DOESN'T work. I tried and tried but it wouldn't turn. So I've been stuck inside the house all day! I got all my chores done but I'm ready for Eric to come home because now I'm bored! :)

We've MOVED!

Hello friends!!

It's official...we are residents of Athens, Georgia! Home of them good ole' Bulldogs!!!

I'll post pictures from Christmas and the move as soon as I get my computer hooked up to the internet!!

Promise to update yall about the holidays tomorrow!

Merry Christmas EVE!

O goodness...it's CHRISTMAS EVE!

I hope everyone has a very MERRY Christmas and we will return after the glorious holiday!

Remember...Jesus is the reason for the season!

Merry Christmas, love The Hammarlunds

Santa!

So every year me and my three best friends have a tradition of celebrating Christmas together by going to visit Santa! We go to Lenox Mall and talk with Santa and then go eat somewhere very yummy! Last night was our yearly Christmas get-together! Here is our picture with Santa! I'll share the past two years too! :)

Christmas 2006!

Christmas 2007!

Christmas 2008!

It's such a fun way to celebrate together! Yes, you may think that we're too old to visit with Santa...but you are SO wrong. Santa doesn't come unless you believe! And I'll believe until my dying days! :)

We went to dinner at yummy Maggianos! I was the only one who has eaten there before(and many times!) so it was so fun for all of them to experience Maggianos for the first time!

It was such a great evening! I cannot wait for next year and all the years to come!

Merry Christmas to the FOUR! (And of course to all my readers!)

3 days!!!

O my goodness I'm so excited! 3 days away from Santa's arrival! :)

Eric and I had a wonderful fun filled weekend!!

Friday night we headed to Fayetteville for Lauren's Christmas SURPRISE shower! It was so fun because she had no idea! I'm a little green of all the wonderful Christmas stuff she received! Nothing cheesy or ugly! Everything she got will be so perfect in their future house next year for Christmas! It was fun to have her first shower during the holidays!

This was right when she walked it! SURPRISE!!

Eric would ruin the picture...but it's still cute! The FOUR!

Saturday morning Eric and I woke up to wrap all of our Christmas presents! It was so fun because Eric and I love to wrap...well I think he might enjoy it more than me! But we use lots of ribbon and bows to make them look perfect!

Then we headed to have lunch with my grandmother! We at at the yummy Cheesecake Factory! She wanted me to come get my graduation present from her, she wasn't able to attend my graduation.

Saturday night was Lexie's graduation party! It was such a fun night! We got there early so Eric could make his BBQ Shrimp...they are so yummy! But it was a great night of celebration for Lexie!

Me and Lexie! Congrats to the Grad!

He is just too cute! (Can't have him-sorry! haha!)

Three of the FOUR!

Sunday we headed to Lenox for some last minute Christmas shopping! It was great to spend the day together around all the Christmas craziness! Sunday night we spent eating a home cooked meal by Eric and watching reruns of Extreme Home Make-Over!

This week is filled with social gatherings, Christmas and moving! YAY! :)

Moving...

Hello friends!

I wish the sun would come out! I feel like it's been gloomy forever! I would be okay if it was cold and gloomy but it's hot and gloomy. Eww. Where's the snow anyways??? Who says we can't have a white Christmas in Georgia!?

So it's official...I've started packing for our next move. It's just not fun! Moving, packing, loading...all of it is just NO FUN! I've moved so many times throughout college and I'm just done with it! Hopefully we won't be moving again for a while. Our moving weekend isn't until the weekend after Christmas but I have to start now with all of the holiday festivities that are almost upon us!

Yesterday I spent the day with sweet Lily Kate! She makes me smile just thinking about her. She is absolutely the sweetest 3 year old I've ever known in my whole life. And she has been this sweet her whole life! I think it has so much to do with her sweet parents. They raise her in such a way that she already is caring, compassionate, and so loving! We played Nutcracker and I was the "mouse king" and she was Clara. It was so fun! I hope that one day when Eric and I have children they are a lot like her! :)

(Here are a few pictures from our wedding where she was one of our flower girls!)

I hope everyone is ready for Christmas! We are almost ready...just two more gifts to pick up! :)

Aunt Marie

Marie Hite 1921-2008

(This is with her in 2007-I'm trying to get a picture of her from our wedding!)

My very sweet and dear Aunt Marie passed away yesterday. She was 87 years old, and one of my very favorite people in the entire world! She was basically my grandmother, she treated me and my sisters as though were her grand-daughters. My Aunt Marie had a very full life. She had 6 daughters, who are all very successfull! She is so special to me and my mom and sisters, that Eric knows our first girl will be named after her, Ava Marie. My Aunt Marie lived her life to the fullest, and I hope I can do the same. She was able to come our for our wedding...which I'm so thankful for. (She moved to CA about 10 years ago, so that limited the amount we got to see her. We used to see her all the time when she lived in Stone Mountain.) And she did not get sick until September, which I'm so thankful for. 3 of her daughters were with her when she went to Heaven. We will miss her so much, but I know I'll see her again someday.