Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

We had such a great holiday season this year. After Crew's first birthday we had non-stop holiday traditions to keep up on. First we had our annual Odom Kids Party. The kids love it so much! This year we made hygiene kits. I think we made almost 80 kits! It was so fun to see all the kids in the assembly line, putting everything in bags and knowing they were helping someone in need. Here are all 19 of them with grandma and grandpa Odom. (#20, Baby boy, is on it's way due in March! Thanks Britt!)


Nick and I went to "The Christmas Carol" at Hale Center Theater. We love it and it puts you in the best Christmas mood!Next fun holiday outing was the Nutcracker! My beautiful niece, Courtney, was the main dancer, Clara. She did such a great job. I am so proud of all my nieces and nephews! Way to go Court!

Next was Christmas Eve! Since the Odom side is so massive we all get together for Christmas Eve, and leave Christmas day to the family! Every year we have dinner, a reading of, "Jake's Orange" from grandma, and a talent show. It is the best tradition. The kids get really excited to show off their "skills"! This year we got a treat from Dave Odom. He wrote a song, sang it, while playing the guitar! It was awesome! Super funny! We also got the karaoke machine out and sang Christmas songs! Every year the kids get pajamas from grandma and Grandpa Odom. They all match and it makes a perfect Christmas picture! Well this year to our surprise the adults got matching pj's as well! SO FUN! We all changed right away into our pj's and ended the night with gift giving between all the cousins! We went home and had an early Christmas for our little family. We opened up all our gifts early because the next day, Christmas Day, we are flying to Las Vegas! Crew LOVED every second of opening the gifts. He didn't really care about the wrapping like we thought he would. He wanted to be ON TOP of all his toys! He was so funny! We had a great Christmas Eve. together as a family! The only bad news was that my family cat of 15 years, Copper, had to be put to sleep that afternoon. He was almost 80 in cat years so he lived a great life. He was sick and needed to be put out of all his pain. We love you Copper and will miss you dearly!

Christmas morning we woke up early and headed off to the airport. Crew got sick in the car and threw up all over his new clothes, blanket and car seat. Needless to say we cleaned up what we could changed his shirt and headed off to catch our plane. We got in about 30 minutes late due to bad weather, but we made it there! We had a fun afternoon as a family with my side opening gifts, watching movies, and playing Guitar Hero! We feel so blessed to have such amazing family and friends to spend these precious moments together! Thank you to all for the love and support you have given us this past year! It has been hard for everyone but with faith and support from all around we can all make it through!

New Years Eve. was spent with some of our dearest friends! We went to Benihana's restaurant. It was a lot of fun. Except crew was not feeling well and was cranky the ENTIRE TIME! He was not having it at all! So after that we went to The Evan's and watched the countdown to the New Year... 2009 BABY! I can't wait to have another year of great memories together with my husband, Crew, Booduh, family, and friends! Here is to a ROCKIN' 2009!!!!