HAPPY ENGAGEMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry guys, I almost forgot some wonderful things that have been happening.  Two of my best good buddies are now ENGAGED!!!

1st proposal

Trent proposed to Carrie right before Christmas ( I knew it was going to happen that night).  Here is their sweet picture.

August wedding - SO excited!!!!!

2nd proposal

Dallas popped the question to Laurie right after Christmas.  That Dallas, such a romantic.  Congratulations Larry and Dal!!  Here is their sweet picture.

July wedding - SO excited!!!!!

And listen, these girls are faster than lightening with wedding planning.  I can barely keep up!  I love you sweeties!!! So excited for you both!!! Can't wait to be part of your special days!!!!!!!!!!!!

MWAH!

Back in the swang of thangs

Good morning all!
I would like to say that I am sooo happy to be back in the swing of things.  I finished the showroom job last week.  I wish that I had slept in the showroom because I could have gotten more work done; however, I doubt everyone else would have appreciated my unshowered scent.  This week holds a lot of fun wedding things.

1. MY DRESS IS IN!!  Smeller and I are going down on Tuesday to try her on, and see how she fits.  I'm SO excited y'all.
2. Mr. Bruce is coming by on Thursday to walk the grounds with me, and figure out what we are going to need to rent for the big day.
3. I'm going to slam Timo if he doesn't do the things I've written down for him to do on his wedding list.  (This might or might not be a joke - stay tuned).
4. Going to help Carrie-Berry pick out bridesmaid dresses on Saturday.  Whoop-Whoop!!  I can't wait to see her in her WEDDING GOWN!!!
SO! That is going to be my week in a nutshell, but I'll get back to you on pictures, etc. from the past two week's hiatus.

Tupelo Travels

I am going to say officially that I will be MIA for the next two weeks while I work on a showroom in Tupelo, Mississippi.  I hope you all (meaning the 2 people that read this) are having a cozy, cuddly winter season so far!!!!!!MWAH! I'll be back.

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!