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little patient






















Now, that is one cute little man patient if I've ever seen one! And it looks to me like he may even be a bigger kid at the dentist than his Aunt Perryn...no tears.

happy birthday to you!

The one thing I didn't mention (since it was a surprise for GG!) in my last post about the wedding this weekend is that I was planning in a small pitstop in Tuscaloosa for the day on Friday to celebrate GGMaw's 85th birthday. Happy happy birthday GGMaw!!! I'm so glad I got to enjoy lunch with you and your special day!

poignant thoughts

My sister-in-law said it much more astutely than I ever could, but she took the thoughts right out of my brain. Snow is pretty but winter is no fun. And it is colllllld in the Northeast, especially this winter! I can't stop laughing at these texts I got from her yesterday.

tradition

It wouldn't be a Pettus gathering without a performance from Mayce! As her grandmother said, she's the next Taylor Swift...

peace, joy & a reason to celebrate


"This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.'"

Luke 2: 12-14, NIV

May you have peace and joy on this wonderful Christmas day and rejoice in the real reason to celebrate. Wishing you a Merry Christmas to you and yours!

visions of sugar plums


...are dancing in my head this Christmas Eve night as I remember all the wonderful memories during the Christmas season of the past month. I hope you're celebrating in a most memorable way and savoring the fun of the season. Now I'm off to bed in hopes that Santa won't pass by this house! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!

gingerbread man


Chase him old woman, chase him old man,
Now chase him, chase him, fast as you can,
Through the garden and out of the gate,
Chase him, chase him before it's too late
The Tate-gingerbread man is out of the pan!

[the whole poem.]

25 and 88

As you saw in my post a couple weeks ago, my granddad and I celebrated big for our 25th and 88th birthdays! Pizza party lunch, ice cream cake, and being together when we're usually thousands of miles apart! It doesn't get much better than that! And, I even got a special treat: beautiful flowers delivered all the way from NYC! Thanks b-stud!

25 years of celebrations

I was born three weeks early, so my granddad had no inclination to expect he would have a granddaughter for a birthday present since my mom was due mid-December. In fact, the night I was born, it took my dad a few hours to get in touch with my grandparents to tell them I had been born! But ever since, we've been having big celebrations every year. Since this was the "25th Anniversary" of our celebrations together, I decided to pull out all the pictures of our birthdays over the past 25 years. I was partially successful... there were only 13 years missing out of the 25. My mom is still apologizing profusely (since she found pictures from every year of my oldest brother's birthdays), but being the youngest child of 4, I think having 12 years worth of birthday pictures is still pretty good. And you'll still get the idea:

1985
1986
1987
1990
1992
1999
2000
2002
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010, still going strong...