The things we say...

I was playing around on the floor wrestling with little Miss Sid Vicious when I noticed something I had never thought of before.
"You know," I said to Brian, "Sidney's breath really doesn't stink. Don't most dogs have horrible stinky breath?" Of course Brian is only half listening to me as he is currently playing some racing game on xbox. "I wonder why her breath doesn't stink," I continue, "Do you think it's because we only feed her dog food? Or because she has so many bones and chew toys to get the tarter off her teeth? Or because she's still a puppy? Or maybe it's because..."
Brian looks up from his game with the most serious and thoughtful expression on his face and interupts me saying, "Most dog's breath stinks because they eat poop. We don't let Sidney eat poop." With that all knowing and earth shattering fact stated he turns back to his xbox and continues to race his little car around and around the track, while I roll around on the floor laughing hysterically with Sid- our amazingly cute fresh-breathed non poop eating dog!

Gaming!!!

We play Monopoly, which he ALWAYS wins.
And of course he gloats.

Yes Sidney it's very sad that mommy's losing :(

I pout.

Then I get angry and vow to never play monopoly again. (Which of course I will and so the cycle begins again!)

A little late bit of Christmas!

Opening presents with Sidney the weekend before Christmas. She got her own doggie pillow (which she refuses to sleep on!) and a candy cane shaped bone.

This is the best pic of my brother I'll probably ever get- he always hides his face!!

Mom's cat Socks sure is feeling rather festive!

Mom and Dad Christmas smooches!!!XOXOXOXOXO

Sorry about DESTROYING your sweater mom. I promise I'll buy you a new one for Christmas next year or maybe I'll learn to knit and I'll make you one!! Here's a tip for anyone who is laundry illiterate like I am- if a tag says "lay flat to dry" do not for any reason put it in the dryer it usually comes out quite a bit smaller then when you first put it in.

Grandma and Grandpa Overcash- I've come to cherish each and every Christmas with my grandparents because one of these years I know it will be our last Christmas together.

Brian is STOKED about his new tv. And yes Kenny, he already knew he was getting this. I'm horrible at keeping secrets.

Happy Fifth Anniversary!!! (a little late)

Sixteen year old Brian and eighteen year old me!!! (It's not the best pic but it's the oldest of us together.)

December 27th, 2003

Brian and I now... five years of marriage... god willing many more to come!!!

How it all started:

We met during high school in the fall of 2000 when we had fourth period earth science together. At first I didn't like Brian at all. He was loud and obnoxious. A trouble-maker and a class clown. Secretly I thought he was a pothead!!! (If only you could have seen him then you would understand. He had spiky hair with blond tips and probably every other day or so wore this grateful dead tye-dye shirt with cut-off camouflage shorts and shoes with grinding plates on the bottom!!!)One of the first things I think he ever said to me was to sniff me, laugh and say that I smelled like fish. What an endearing compliment. But what can I say, you do and say the strangest things when you're a sixteen year old boy.Yet somehow this strange little creature began to grow on me. I looked forward to going to class and seeing his bright blue eyes shining and hearing his constant laughter and jokes. Our teacher and Brian made this silly bet about him making a hundred on the next test. (For Brian in those days 100's were few and far between) So on my eighteenth birthday he called me and I helped him study for the test. I made a 102 and my loud, obnoxious, smiling, funny Brian made a 103. Of course he found this beyond hilarious and nearly eight years later I still here about that test. After the test in true high school kid fashion we began writing notes back and forth and I wrote this absolutely silly little note to him on December 6th telling him that I liked him. That night he called me up and asked me to be his girlfriend. How cute and innocent our story began. Somehow I doubt that teenagers today have quite the same stories. So since December 6th , 2000 we've been Brian and Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Brian. Hardly ever one without the other. We did have a few on again off again times during our dating days but we're not counting those : ) After eight years together and five years of marriage I couldn't imagine my life without him. And if I were being honest sometimes whenever he wears his favorite camouflage shorts I wish he'd throw on a tye-dye shirt, grinding shoes, spike his hair, and sniff me just for old times sake!

Apart for X-mas :(

Leave it to the Navy to screw up my holiday plans!! Brian didn't put in to take leave over the holiday weekend so now as a result he gets to have duty the week of Christmas and the following weekend. Port and Starboard duty- which means he's on duty every other night. "Duty" only means he has to call in that morning and check in but he could possibly get called to come in which means he's not allowed but so many miles from base and since North Carolina is just over 400 miles away... looks like, for Brian atleast, North Carolina is a no go. I however am still planning on going to the good old NC for Christmas. Considering that my dad's mom just passed away a few months ago and my two remaining grandparents aren't in the best of health I just feel like I need to be there for Christmas. I've never had a Christmas outside of North Carolina... it just wouldn't seem like Christmas if I wasn't there. In 2005 Brian got home 5 days before Christmas. In 2006 he was on the USS Mason in the Persian Gulf. Last year he was home and we actually got to spend Christmas in North Carolina together. But it looks like this year we'll be spending the holiday apart again. I'll be chilling with my family in the lovely little town of Salisbury and Brian will be here in Jax having lunch with his bike club and going to the movies with his friend Stu. Sounds like his Christmas is going to be a blast. So thanks again to the USN- they sure know how to make the holiday season fantastic.

Pics from our last Christmas spent apart. The first pic is Brian helping decorate the shop he worked in on the ship. The second is when he called me and I opened his presents for him and told him what they were. It was Christmas eve for me but already Christmas in the Persian Gulf where he was at. The third picture I took to send him on Christmas day. (Wow. Just ignore the crazy red eyes I'm sporting. )

It's Beginning to Look alot Like Christmas

Sid Vicious- Only the coolest, most awesome dog ever!!