Oh Christmas Tree I forgot

I forgot to post these pictures. Sorry we have been crazy busy and I have been letting my blog posting slip.

All before Christmas, we randomly bought our Christmas tree one day and didn't have any twine or rope to attach to the top of our SUV. So I said lets have Christmas in the CAR! Kate and I jammed this thing in the car right between all the seats so we could get it home. The tree was sticking out the back hatch, and people were giving us strange looks as we drove away. We thought it was so hilarious I took some pictures of what it looked like inside the car. Hope you get a laugh out of these!

Here is a picture of Braily not amused by 9 foot tree she has to ride home next to.

My view of Kate

Kates view of me!

Lets hit the slopes!

Doesn't she look excited!!

I can hear her saying this while she looks me "Dad, why did you dress me up like a blueberry to go outside in the snow?"

Braily, three shades of purple, a one piece snow suit, and a blue hat! Not too many can pull that off! Ha!

His and Her Walk in Closets

What a freaking great idea!

Random shot of Friends

I found this shot of a get together with all of our friends one night, I meant to post about it but its a month or so old so I'll just post the picture. I took it with my phone but thought it was a good picture.

Michelle, how about you organize this whole outfit again?

What??????

So, Katie has not been feeling well these past couple days, and she was telling me yesterday that she had some of the same feelings as when she is pregnant. OH NO I SAY! This can't be, three in a row? IMPOSSIBLE! She snuck off to the bathroom and took a freaking pregnancy test just to be sure.

Not Pregnant!

I can live another day folks.

What a week!

We had a crazy good time this past week with family for Christmas and New Years but it was exhausting! I think this picture sums it all up. My sister inlaw Kristy captured this with her iphone in the car.

Ellie, Lexi, & Braily

Merry Christmas to All!!!

One Early Christmas Present!

So my two brother in laws Ben and Nate, went in together to get me BROWNS tickets for Christmas! Its great to get early Christmas presents! It was really, really cold but the seats couldn't have been better unless they got me on the actual field. We sat in the Dog Pound where there was a lot of drinkin and yelling! Ha! They said the temp was at 9 degrees without the wind chill, and let me tell you that wind was strong, so it had to be in the negatives out there. You can see in the photos it was too cold for a lot of fans towards the end of the game, but we made it till the end. I had Kate all dressed up in my hunting gear, and I was wearing my snowboarding gear to stay warm. I took some photos with my phone so they aren't the best of quality but you can see how close we were. Thanks for the tickets guys! It was a BLAST!!!

Bundled up and ready to go Hunting, wait! I mean to the Browns game.

One jump away from playing Quarterback myself!It's cold baby!

Photo Shoot

Audrey, girl you did it again! We had another photo shoot with my sister-in-law Audrey over Thanksgiving and she blew it out of the park!! This girl is A-mazing! She was trying to capture a new family photo for our Christmas card, and some good shots of Jayla. Well she rocked it all and then some! She even had this crazy idea of taking a few shots with just Jayla and her DAD aka ME!, with Jayla being NAKED and me with my shirt off! WHAT! If you remember a few posts back i mentioned we fried everything for Thanksgiving, yeah this was the day after. So I was in my top physical form! HA! I was a little sceptical at first about these shots, then I had some of these amazing tequila Christmas cookies then I was all for it! Ha!

So, if you have any sense at all you know that baby stuff can come out of baby at any given moment! I was praying that wouldn't happen and lucky for me (and everyone else) it didn't. Audrey got some really great shots and I posted a few below.

Check out her website at http://www.audreyhabeck.com/ and you can see Katie, and Braily on there also. So call or email her up and book her NOW!

You'll have to wait till Christmas to see our Family Photo. I'll post it soon!

P.S. If you want a poster size picture to hang in you house, let me know I can hook you up!!

Tequila Christmas Cookies

I know you all will be looking for recipes for cookies this Christmas season.

Give this one a try.......

Tequila Christmas Cookies

1 cup of water

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup of sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cup of brown sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

4 large eggs

1 cup of nuts

2 cups of dried fruit

1 bottle of Tequila

Sample the Tequila in a large glass to check quality

Take a large bowl, and check the Tequila again, to be sure it is ofthe Highest quality. Pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer, Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffybowl.

Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this point, it's best to make sure the tequila is still ok, so try another cup.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit and damm cup off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers,just pry it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something.

Check the Tequila.

Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven.Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.

Put the bowl through the window, finish off the booze and make sure toput the dirty stove in the dishwasher.

CHERRY MISTMAS TO ALL!

HO HO HO!

WOW! I never thought I would be in one of those Christmas pictures where the kid looks miserable, and is crying. Guess what? I did it! We took the whole family to see Santa last weekend and everyone was in a great mood. It was snowing outside and the Christmas music was playing inside the store, there were kids running all over the place, yep it's Christmas time. So, we waited only about 5 minutes in line then it was our turn. We all walked up and just had the plan to stick Braily up on Santa's lap and take a photo. Ha! She wanted nothing to do with this old, fat man with glasses. I tried to tell Braily that he looks just like Grandpa in a red outfit. Just kidding! So since Braily wasn't about to sit there by herself, we all joined in the picture and took a quick shot.

Braily still looks miserable, it makes me laugh every time I see this.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

From: The Collards

:Random:

So my sister in law Audrey tagged us to share 7 random things about ourselves, since I have been doing all the post so far on our blog, what a perfect opportunity to have Kate write a little something on here. Besides it gets me out of spilling my guts for all you snoops (Ashley). HA!

So, for the very 1st time introducing the love of my life, the beautiful, the stunning, the you know she's got it goin' on, KATIE!

OK, so I'm not real great at the whole computer thing! i can pretty much check my email and turn the computer on and off (most of the time:-) ) 7 random things about me...

1. i have a slight form of OCD! like, i might put the girls' diapers on 3 times to make sure it is perfectly lined up with Elmo! BUT, my underwear and sock drawer is totally a disaster!! i mean, i don't even know if any of the socks match!

2. i have a look-a-like that lives in Nashville! (she's more of a look-a-like from when i was skinny in college!)

3. my Starbucks order is a grande vanilla latte, with an extra shot of espresso, 2 of those regular, 1 decaf. 1/2 soy milk, 1/2 non-fat! (sorry to be annoying!)

4. i speak Spanish

5. when i'm alone in the car, or just with the girls who are too young to know the difference, i sing so loud to the music that i get a sore throat...seriously.

6. believe it or not, when i first met Derek (way back my sophmore year of college when we were working at outback) i told all my roommates that i had a crush on this guy i worked with, but i didn't know why because he was so grumpy!!! ha haa!! you would never know it reading this blog...geesh!! (i'm a lucky girl!)

7. i secretly love McDonald's "nugs"!!! (don't tell...i'm currently on starvation diet to lose this baby weight!)