Scaredy Cat

So I'm now over at Timothy's house (soon to be mine and timo's house), and I have a confession.  I'm a scaredy cat.  I have a tendency to have a small fear of at least... everything.  I don't know when this started; because I used to be absolutely fearless.  I would try anything!  But now, not so much.  I know I shouldn't be scared of anything because I should put all of my trust in God, but obviously I have not put all of my trust there.  I think maybe this happened when I started college and had to completely rely on myself; now I just trust myself to do things, and I have truly been trying to let it go. 
Last night Timothy nonchalantly tells me that there have been a lot of burglaries lately in Florence, so I need to be sure to lock the doors today when I am by myself.  I absolutely flipped out.  A break-in and flying are two of my biggest fears.  When I'm at home in Scottsboro, I could sleep with all the doors unlocked and a sign that says "Come on in", and I would still feel safe.  If I'm anywhere else I think something is going to get me!  I even dreamed about it last night after Timothy mentioned the burglaries.
In my sunday school class at First Methodist, we are doing a study with Max Lucado's book Fearless.  This book talks exactly about what I was dealing with last night.  Obviously I haven't read too much of this or I would have some back-up talk in my mind about how I am crazy for being so paralyzed by my fears.

Does anyone else have something in their lives of which they are very frightened?

Monday Mom Interview

What is your name?  ...paused due to mom's obsession with a clean home.
What is your name? Do you not know it?? I don’t want this to go on the airways. Vicki Lankford.. I swear, you don’t even know my name.. My ear hurts. My left ear. Put that on there too.. OWW… and my belly hurts.


Oookay, What is your favorite day? Of the week? Year?? Oh gosh, I have so many. I like Thanksgiving.

Why? But I like spring too, I like Thanksgiving because I love the time of year, and I love that it’s a time when we have a good time together, and not have any expectations without gifts and trees. We can just eat and be together.

That was a long answer. Okay, who is your favorite singer? OOHH, my favorite singer.. besides me?

Yes. Elvis was the best singer in the world.

So, do you like “Blue Christmas”? Mhmm.. yes. A hunka-hunka blue Christmas.

If you were to get a new piece of jewelry, what would it be? LOOK PAULA!! PAULA IS GOING TO BE ON WEDNESDAY!!  (Mom spotted that Paula Deen was going to be on the Bonnie Hunt show on Wednesday, complete excitement.)

Okay, did you hear me? Katie – look at that dog playing the piano. Look. Look. Look at his tail. Hehehehe. Look. Ooooh.(There is now a piano playing dog on television) Okay what?? My favorite food is spaghetti I guess. It may not be, I don’t know.

Mom, I didn't ask what your favorite food was.  If you were to get a new piece of jewelry, what would it be?  hmmm, I guess…um… I need me some bigger bling earrings. I still have the earrings I got when I turned 16. I need some middle age bling going on. What did Jessi have to say?

We aren’t talking about Jessi Gross right now, we’re interviewing you.
Okay. Tell me about yourself.Oh I can’t tell you! Theres nothing to say! I don’t want to talk about myself. This is too uncomfortable. I’m going to go put some clothes in the laundry. Are you writing that? You little crapper.

Interview over.

Quotable QWednesday

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Washington Irving

I'll pass on the fruitcake.

There are so many things that go hand in hand with Christmas that are so fun, like:

1. Christmas carols
2. My mom's pumpkin cranberry bread
3. Decorating the tree
4. Laurie's birthday (hehe)
5. Watching Timo get way too excited about eggnog

But with the good comes the bad...some things I'm not crazy about:

1. Wal-mart (it's a flippin' slaughterhouse)
2. Fruitcake
3. Too many dirty santa parties
4. Its a Wonderful Life (An entire box of Kleenex later, it's not such a wonderful life)
5. The song, Christmas Shoes

But all in all, this is the second most wonderful time of the year because Jesus Christ was born, our Savior.  He saved us all from our sins, and that's why Easter is the most important holiday for me.  All the fun traditions we celebrate are wonderful and important, and a great time to be together with your family.  Below are some of the fun things that Timothy and I did to decorate his house for Christmas.  Mom and I aren't doing a lot of decorating this year - we have too much junk in the house already (I know that's a terrible excuse).

So... we got off to a rough start.  I decided to jazz up the mantel with Jackson Vine and Magnolia leaves.  EPIC FAIL.  Wild Kingdom was inside our house.

Okay, I worked with the extremely difficult Jackson Vine, and it ended up looking okay!

I go outside, to check on Timothy stringing up the lights (because evidently its a nighttime Wakefield family tradition? I didn't know that...Seems like a cold tradition to me.)  Mr. Wakefield was so cute draping the lights "Just so".  Too bad they alllll went out as soon as he finished.... Sad day..

Cutie..

So.. Timo is outside, and I am inside decorating the Christmas tree.(worried that he is going to electrocute himself)   I think it turned out pretty good!

Scout said " Ehh, take it or leave it..I'm going to go find some cookies you left out"

I  hope y'all enjoyed the Christmas pics.  Here is a picture of Scout from the SEC Championship.  Yes, that's right.  She does have red toenails.  Roll Tide!

Not talky.

Sorry that I don't have anything to post about today.  I'll just put up some pretty things that have caught my eye lately.  Maybe I'll post about Christmas decorations later.  We'll see.

anthropologie, grapefruit sugar bowl

anthropologie, branch-to-bough ornament

j.crew, starlight glitter ballet flats

style me pretty

martha stewart "garland moss" at macy's

over and out.

My Singing Career is Over.

Yesterday, I was driving in my car to do some wedding junk.  Josh Groban came on the radio, so of course I had to make it a duet and began singing along with "O Holy Night."  Every word that I sang, I really meant it - so I sang with emphasis and feeling.  A red light stopped me, and I found this a good time to crank it up, and sing over the music.  I looked to my right... there was a German Shepherd in the backseat of someone's car barking and growling and jumping at my car.  I guess that I should kiss my dream of being the next Dolly Parton at the Grand Ole Opry goodbye. 

I almost got that squirrel

For those of you who have not talked to Scout before, please read this in your head with a lisp like a 3 year old. - She's almost three.

What I do everyday is like this: wake up, use bathroom, make dad chase me around the yard, chase squirrels, hide in the brush, go in when I feel like it, eat dog food, sleep till dad gets home, then go outside and play some more and eat human food when I can. 

A lot of the time while I'm at house by myself I hunt the squirrels from inside of my house.  When I watch them play and shake their tails at me, I get really mad and want to get 'em.  They are making fun of me because I can't go outside.

 

The other day, my mom and dad were eating human food and told me that I couldn't have any, so I decided to go hunt squirrels.  If I can't get a belly rub or the human foods, then I hunt the squirrels.  So there was one really really mean one outside on my swing.  He was shakin his tail everywheres.  I barked and growled at him, and told him to "Get outta here squirrel!"  Well he didn't listen, so I jumped up on the window.  When I jumped up, the window kept going!  My mom said I broke the window and was really mad at me.  She said I couldda got hurt, but I thought, "If I could just get outside, that squirrel will get hurt." 

I hate the squirrels.  I gotta take a nap.

December 1st. It's official.

The turkey has been eaten.  The Bama game has been won (by the skin of our teeth). The peppermint chocolate chip milkshakes are a-flowin'. - You should really try one from Chick-fil-A.
Hey guys, it's CHRISTMASTIME!!!!!

Sorry no posts last week, I was at Timo's house getting ready for Thanksgiving.  Wow, I never knew how much work went into it!  We cleaned, painted, cooked, and partied.  What happened was Mom came over from the Boro with cranberry relish and casseroles, Timo's Mom and Dad brought the turkey and dressing, and Luke brought his appetite.  Everyone had the best time!  So fun.  I hope this becomes an annual tradition.  Maybe next year turkey and togas?  Just a thought..

We also had fun having a lot of our friends over for the Alabama/Auburn game. We missed you friends that couldn't make it!  For those of you who were not there, listen to this little story.  Timothy pays a stupid amount of money on Direct TV because of his HD sports package.  He has it sent to his brand new television in the accomodatingly large living room.  Because of all the bells and whistles this combo has, the satellite takes longer to project onto this particular television - about 7 seconds.  By the end of the game, every single boy that came to the party was piled up in Timo's bedroom watching the game because it is 7 seconds faster on the blurry tv.   Boys are dumb sometimes.
Prime example: Cousin Eddy (a little Christmas humor)

I wish I had pictures from this past week, but we were all so busy I didn't even think about taking pictures!! Boo!! Sorry!  But the good news is that Scout told me she was going to put up a new post a little later tonight.  Until then, here is a picture of me and Mom at Mamma Mia last week.  We had a GREAT time!

Love you Mom!!