Thanksgiving Update

Our Thanksgiving was very busy but fun!!! We started on Wednesday night by eating at my uncle's house. Patrick had to work on Wednesday so he did not get to come to this dinner because he did not get home until 9:00. It was a great dinner and a great way to start the holiday. Click here to see pictures!
On Thursday we started by watching the parade at my parents house and then headed to Patrick's grandparents for lunch! This year I ate TONS of food!! After lunch we had a family picture made! It was great to finally get a picture with all the wives and new cousins!

After lunch we came back to my parent's house to have dinner with my dad's side of the family. My cousin was home from Alaska so it was nice to see him as well. My family attempted to take a Christmas card picture. Check it out here!

On Thanksgiving our cousin, Anna Camille, turned one and her birthday party was yesterday. It was so much fun!! She got many cute things and we had so much fun! After the party we went back to Patrick's parents house and he helped around the house. We then went to Cracker Barrel for dinner! IT WAS SOO GOOD!! My father-in-law was very surprised that I cleaned my plate. (Before I got pregnant I NEVER cleaned my plate) After dinner we had fun just hanging out at their house and of course Mary Alice got some BEAUTIFUL outfits!!! :) Thank you so much Pam, JuJu, and Alice for the wonderful gifts for Mary Alice this weekend!

Today, I am getting ready to go pick up the two cutest kids in the world(of course until I get to see Mary Alice) and take them to Target and Chick Fil A with my mom. After that is it time to watch the greatest game of the season! CLEMSON VS. SOUTH CAROLINA!! Last night my team won, GO BYRNES, so I am hoping this will continue today!! GO GAMECOCKS! :)

I hope everyone has a great day! We are going back home SOON to get start putting up Christmas decorations!

Thank You!!!

On this Thanksgiving Day, I want to say Thank You to God. He has blessed me so many things and I don't think I say thank you enough.

Some great blessings in my life from God are:

My husband - I know I get on his nerves, especially these last 6 months but he still comes home everyday with a smile on his face and loves me!

My mom and dad - Wow.. they do so much for me. Words cannot express how much they mean to me!

My sister and Andy - I am very lucky to have a great relationship with my sister. She is my best friend. I also have a great relationship with Andy. I know I can talk to him about anything!

Caroline and Eli - I love these two kids more than I can imagine. They can put the biggest smile on your face!

Alice and John - I have really been blessed with great in laws who will do anything for me! They are the best!

Sally and Ben - I love it when all four of us get together. We never stop laughing! :)

Patrick's extended family - They are so wonderful to me! They welcomed me as one of their own and they do so much for us!

My extended family - I cherish all of our memories together and love that when we get together for the holidays we get to catch up!

Our church family - Patrick and I have been blessed with a great church family. They have helped make our home an actual home! :)

Last but not least, Mary Alice, I am so excited about meeting this little girl and God has really blessed us with a wonderful daughter. It is hard to believe that in 4 months I am going to have someone in my arms that will call me Mommy. I am very lucky to have so many wonderful moms that are great role models for me!

So, Thank you God for all your blessings. Also Thank you everyone for everything you have done for Patrick and I.

WE LOVE YOU!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Thanks Summer!!!

Thank you so much Summer for my blog award!!!

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Sunday Six

Six things going on at the Graham household...

1. This weekend I went home for a baby shower for a good friend from high school. In high school I was part of a group of four friends. Every weekend we usually spent the night with someone. We were all at the baby shower! It was so great to see each other again! It is hard to believe we are all grown up!

2. Patrick and I had a great date night on Friday at Yamato's and then to finish our registry at Babies R US!

3. You can now see Mary Alice kick me if I am laying down. She is also becoming a great soccer player! I don't think she ever sleeps!

4. I am trying to convince Patrick to put the Christmas tree up before we leave for Thanksgiving so all we have to do is decorate it when we get home.

5. We are both VERY excited about eating Thanksgiving dinner and need some prayer that we don't get sick! Everyone in my family has had the stomach virus for 24 hours during the past two weeks and I pray we don't get it as well! :)

6. We are both very excited for the two big games this weekend as well!! Byrnes/Dorman and Carolina/Clemson. :)

Have a great week!!!

Random Things

Saturday afternoon the Laney's came to stay with us. It was so nice to be able to catch up with them. We took the girls to the park near our house and they had a great time swinging and sliding. Although I think Brandon and Patrick had just as much fun swinging!

We also went to our favorite restaurant, Hudson's, for dinner. It was great!

Today we heard a great sermon at church on stewardship. Our minister compared stewardship to the good Samaritan parable. He explained that there are three attitudes of stewardship and there were three attitudes in the parable. The first is what yours is mine. This was the attitude of the robbers and how we do not need to have this attitude with stewardship. The second attitude was what's mine is mine and I don't want to share. This was the attitude of the priest in the parable. This is also the attitude of many people in the church when they hear the word stewardship. The third attitude is the one of the good Samaritan where she was willing to give up all she had to help anyone. This should be the one for us when it comes to stewardship.
He also explained that even if we give alittle God will bless us with so many blessings. He explained that stewardship is not just about money but about time and services.

After church we headed to the Carolina basketball game with Katie and Justin. It was a great time of fellowship and fun. It was also great because Carolina won! If you know me well then you know I LOVE BASKETBALL SEASON! I am so excited that it is starting!

This weekend we also bought the new Josh Turner cd, which I highly recommend. This is a video of one of my favorite songs on the cd. Hope you enjoy and have a great week!

My How My Belly Has Grown

19 weeks

22 Weeks

Wow what 3 weeks will do! :)

I have to Brag...

Ok I know I brag on my husband ALOT but yesterday he really did well! :)

Today the Laney's are coming to stay with us so we knew we needed to clean and get everything ready. While I was at work yesterday my husband CLEANED our house. I mean he did everything! He cleaned out the kitchen cabinets, refrigerator, closets, laundry room, dusted EVERY inch of house and then made it smell well.

I felt so bad because when I got home he wouldn't let me help him and told me to take a nap. Throughout the whole 5 months of being pregnant I have only had to clean my house 1 time. My husband is the BEST! He is the best cleaner in the WORLD! :)

Thanks honey.. I love you!

Things are finally looking up!!!

Well after almost a week of going crazy with my cold, I am starting to feel better. I called the doctor and told them that Tylenol was not working so they told me to try Dimetapp and a humidifier at night. IT WORKED!! Who would have know that my favorite medicine from when I was little would work now! :)

I am going to keep taking the medicine but I think things are starting to look up! Thank you to everyone who prayed for me and for the advice! Mary Alice and I appreciate it!

This is for my Mom! :)

HELP???!!!?!?

Does anyone have any advice on how to get rid of a cold and get their voice back without taking medicine?
I am willing to try ANYTHING!

Thanks! :)

Prayer Request

Please say an extra prayer for me tonight. I have had a terrible cold since Saturday. I have tried not to take too much medicine because I know it can't be good for Mary Alice, so I am just trying to ride this one out. They only problem is that I cannot afford to take days off work, so I don't have time to rest.

Please pray for me and for Patrick's sanity! :) I am not a very good sick person!

A fast weekend!

This weekend feels like it has flown by for us!

Friday night we went to the mall to meet my brother in law, and Corrie with our friend Katie(who started a new blog for her little roo) for dinner and shopping.

Yesterday we tackled the big Babies R US to register for Mary Alice. I was overwhelmed. I am just glad my sister was sitting by her phone for the million of times I called her. We didn't find everything we needed but we got a good start!

Last night we went out with Matt, Crystal, and Emma. It has been forever since we have had dinner with them and we enjoyed catching up with them!

Today we went to church and then came home and have done nothing! I have a head cold so I am trying to not do too much and I slept all day! I am hoping it will go away soon because I feel like I am blowing my brains out. :)

Even though we didn't do too much we had a great weekend! :) Hope everyone else did as well and have a great week!

How am I going to Survive!!?!?

Today on my way to work I started thinking about how great it would be to be home to play with my computer all day and I started thinking about how when we get something new at our house it is so hard to go to work because I want to stay home and either play the new game or enjoy the new item that we have bought.

Well this got me thinking about next August and how in world am I going to leave my little girl to go to work. I have a feeling it is going to be really hard to get through the day. If I am that excited and ready to get home to play a crazy playstation game, how will I be to come home and play with my precious child. I really had a different view of a working moms and how they have to have a strength to make it through the day.

So how am I going to survive!?!?!? I hope that I can find an answer next year but until then I am going to enjoy every moment I can with Mary Alice, even the wonderful moments of her kicking me everyday! I still enjoy feeling the little movements all the time! We definitely have a child that loves to move because she never stops!

WE FINALLY DID IT!!!

Since I started teaching at my school last year I had a laptop that I could bring home and use. It was not the best laptop by any means. Some of the many things wrong with it were: we could not get on many webpages, if your blog had a great design our school blocked it, also it was VERY SLOW!!! Well this week it decided it did not want to corporate with our internet so I decided to start researching different laptops.

I found a great deal at BEST BUY so I am now typing on my new computer!!! I am so excited because now I can actually see every website that I try to find! The only problem is that I am having to get use to Vista and that I need to buy Word and Powerpoint, but oh well! :)

I promise to update more now that I have a great laptop to work with! I will even try to post more pictures. My belly is getting bigger! :)