Just call me Sassy...

I have now determined that I am not Martha, Betty, Nancy or Boo...I am Sassy Montgomery. Yes, I have an alias...I named myself Sassy Montgomery a few years ago after many, many karoake filled evenings in Melbourne. Well, Sassy Montgomery has totally revamped herself into a Suzie homemaker that stays in on Saturday nights rather than hitting the karoake bar.

I have really been trying to step up my "craft" and "cooking" to show my sweet little girl that if you practice and don't give up, that your weaknesses can be overcome. Though lots of practice may not have helped my singing, it really is helping my cooking. I must say I was really proud of the chocolate dipped strawberries that I prepared in the name of Valentine's day for Summer's class and teachers.

(Did I mention, that I whipped these up between work, workout, feeding child, taking shower and heading out to girls night in time to have a glass of wine).

1st...wash and dry strawberries


Melt 2 cups chocolate with 1 tablespoon crisco shortening

Dip strawberries and let cool on wax paper

NANA

Summer is getting to be a "big girl." One of her new tricks is to take the step stool, drag it to whatever she is trying to reach and catapult herself up to grab whatever it is that she has laid her eyes on.

Well, I was doing laundry and had one eye on her and the other in the soapy filled machine when I hear a squeal of delight and a loud "NANA!" I realized that she had grabbed the banana's off the counter and kind of laughed at her as she handed them to me. Upon further review it seems she wanted just a nibble. If you look closely she actually took a bite out of the bottom banana. Skin and all...

Needless to say, we have our hands full with this curious little girl!

Kissy Face

I could just eat her up! When you ask her to make a "fish" face she puckers up...this is the face I got at Liam Ferguson's party when I asked her for a "kissy" face.

Say "Cheese"

Playing with Emily

Cute pictures of the girls playing this holiday season...They love to go on the "paygrun" (playground). They just love each other so much, and I am really thankful that we got to spend the month of December with Amy, Dane and Emily.
Kissing :)



Playing on Memaws bed

Bubba and Summer

Keith's 21st Birthday

Keith is my "double first cousin." This sounds very weird, but really it just means that my mom's brother married my dad's sister. (Kind of like twins, marrying twins). Needless to say EVERY holiday celebration is celebrated with both Keith and his brother Sean as they are on both my mom and my dad's side. I am very lucky to be very close to all my cousins. I love them all and love their girlfriend's too!

We hosted Keith's 21st birthday celebration. We had a cooler full of beer, bottles of liquor, and plenty of oysters and food in honor of his big day. The most fun of all HAD to be us singing and dancing to Guitar Hero and Rock band.

Ivette, Amy, Me, Kirsten

Amy and Sean

Keith-the birthday boy!

Christmas 2009

Christmas. Where to begin. We are so blessed that we have so many family and friends to share this precious time of year. We did like 9 Christmas celebrations in 4 days. I will kind of layout our timeline. I get exhausted every time I think about all that we do throughout the holidays, but I also wouldn't trade or change a thing, as I realize what a true blessing it is to have all these special people in our lives.
Here is a run down of the week...
December 19th-Girls Annual Christmas Party with Necklace Exchange

December 23rd-Lunch at Granny's
Dinner at mom's to celebrate with her side of the family

December 24th-Lunch with my Dad, Brenda, Austin, Amy, Dane and Emily
Christmas Eve service, dinner at mom's (Steven went in nice clothes, and no complaints...see July post:)

Christmas Day-WHEW here we go
7am Up for Santa at our house
9am Celebrate with my mom, Gary, Amy, Dane & Emily
11 am Arrive at Gran Gran's (my granny) for the Blanton celebration
2:30 Home for nap, relaxation and finish opening our presents as we were so rushed to open them all in the morning.

26th-Drive to Destin to celebrate with the Atwell's -Stay till the 28th

29th-Keith's 21st Birthday shabang at hour house with all the cousins

30th-Zoinks with the younger 2nd cousins

Here are miscellaneous pictures from that week...Enjoy.(At some point I will learn how to do a slide show).

Let the present opening begin

Smile for Papa and Nana

Santa's been here (side note, she only cared about the new cups)

Meemaw got her a "car" to match mommies

Precursor to when she is 16, daddy will teach her to drive

My two favorite people

One happy family

Emily "EMMY" enjoying Zoinks

Summer figuring out if she likes Zoinks any better this time

Austin Pratt and Brett DeGloet

Emily hating the ride

The girls in the bouncy house (check out Summer's face)

You don't look sick...

So the stomach bug hit Summer on Friday morning, infected daddy on Saturday and gave mommy the plague on Sunday. It lasted till Tuesday and was terrible. We went thru 19 loads of laundry and 7 rolls of toilet paper. I love that Summer was so sick, but was still her charming, laughing and happy self.

Sweet sicky baby

Nope, I'm not going to eat the saltines

Snuggling sickies...Gosh I love these two!

Snuggling with daddy in the sleeping bag