Christmas hidden messages

So, i was eating some Christmas M&M's and found this interesting message.


Um, i'm not sure what it means... but then i realized it was just trying to get my attention for the next hidden message...



You know Christmas is getting close when even the candy is celebrating!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good morning.

Christmas 4's

Alright, this isn't very christmasy which goes against everything i believe in this time of year, but Becky requires strict adherence to the rules, so here is the fourth picture from the fourth folder. What can i say, i've been tagged.



Here is a picture of me and Trev early on in the dating years. Neither of us can remember what we were doing or where we were going. Hmmm, it was taken at the back of my house on Alabama. Um what else...i look really tan, that's nice. Ok, yea that's all i've got.

Merry non-Christmas ;)

Christmas Christmas

This has been an excellent Christmas Season for me. As most of you know, I love Christmas and love celebrating it for as long as possible. This year I have had more opportunities then ever before to do "Christmasy things."

Here's a look back on an excellent Christmas season (yes i know it's not over yet).

September 30th--Amy Grant releases yet another Christmas CD, thus officially launching the holiday season

October--listening to Christmas music at work, in my car and at home when Trev's not around (i know my limits ;)

Early November-- Begin Christmas shopping

Mid November--begin decorating 10 trees for work

Late November--listened to Christmas music for 4 hours straight while driving to Florida for Thanksgiving (Trevor was asleep)

December 2nd-- had Christmas outing with Trev, Heidi and Kyle. This included peppermint hot chocolate at Starbucks and picking out our Christmas trees!

December 3rd--we had a branch open and Santa came! SANTA!

December 6th--Trevor's work Christmas party and the Inhabit Christmas party --both tons of fun (ok, so not so much the work one, but the second party was awesome!) we even did cheesy Christmas pictures (oh, that explains the library/pasture picture)

December 7th--Decorated Christmas tree and house

December 8th - 13th-- made about 44 trips to Hobby Lobby working on decorations for our work Christmas party, spent all week doing Christmas decor related work only.

December 13th-- Work Christmas party

December 14th-- Christmas cookie gathering at Heidi and Kyle's with Bethany, Timmy, Heather and Trev and me

December 15th--Amy Grant and Vince Gill Christmas concert in ATL with Emily! it was awesome as expected. Good songs, good stories, and lots of reminders of the reason for the season (next year Heather!!)

December 18th-- Finished Christmas shopping! wahoo, now the wrapping begins

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December 19th-21st--Some non-committed Christmasy time, most likely to be spent making Christmas cookies, wrapping Christmas presents and other various Christmas related occurrences

December 23rd--Head to Virginia for Christmas

December 24th--Christmas Eve! This is the day we have mom's Christmas eve feast and open stockings

December 25th--Christmas!

December 27th--Christmas with all the Harts at Grammy and Grandaddys (first Christmas with Ellen!)

December 28th--Back to Chattanooga

December 30th-- Head to Florida for more Christmas fun!

December 31st--New Years Eve/Taylor Christmas

January 1st--New Years Day

January 4th--Back to Chattanooga


Even though i won't be home for Christmas, i'm sure it will be a Christmas to remember.

Christmas Monsters

Good thing I came home when i did, because Trevor had no idea he was about to be eaten by a wild beast!

Upon closer examination I realized that it wasn't a real beast, only our friendly Zoe laying upside down with her giant fangs hanging out. Ferocious!

I talked to Zoe about her misleading behaviour and she gave me her "who me?" look...

She said it must have been Mia but we all know that since Mia is part bear she is spends all of her free time (that is, time not spent eating or tormenting Zoe) nestled in her warm bed. Hibernating.

see below

Well the moral of the story is to watch out for Christmas beasts who lurk in dark bedrooms and scary forests. We all remember what happened before...

p.s. this isn't the 4th of 4, i need to wait and post that when i'm on my home computer... stay tuned for Christmas 4's coming soon.

Christmas Cheese

Well, here's another instant classic...

this was taken in our newly remodeld library/pasture.

Happy Holidays from the Taylors!

the Christmas flu

got an early present this year, not sure who gave it to me but it has rearranged my schedule quite thoroughly. You guessed it, the Christmas flu. I was given this lovely gift Tuesday night. I spent Wednesday trying to give it back and Thursday i conceded defeat. My biggest accomplishment since then has been taking a shower which of course wiped me out and i needed another nap to recover.

So this has become another lesson on what Briana wants to do vs. what Briana can do.

I want to:
-decorate this christmas tree that's been sitting in my living room mocking me with it's lack of lights and ornaments
-decorate my house with the boxes of Christmas cheer that have been sitting unopened in the art room
-make the glorious gingerbread house that Heidi and I were going to conquer the world with tomorrow
-work on my Christmas shopping
-attend the 3 Christmas functions I had planned this weekend

What I've been able to do:
-sleep
-cough
-sleep
-drink this miraculous invention called a Hot Toddy (seriously it works)
-sleep
-read
-sleep

This has been very frustrating. Grrrrrrrr. I do have to give tons of bonus points to Trev who has taken excellent care of me, which included: getting the miraculous Chicken noodle soup from Panera (which has wondrous healing powers), getting me Whiskey for the Hot Toddys, making the Hot Toddys, rubbing my feet, getting me extra medicine, blankets and tea, grocery shopping, cleaning the house and picking me up movies. Seriously he's great. Just great. I'm impressed all over again just reading that list. Oh and did i mention he's put up with my complaining and overall patheticness?

I guess the moral of this story is Trevor is awesome and learning Christmas patience is good for me.

lists and notes...

things i learned over thanksgiving:

-people from Florida are not at all concerned if there is a lizard in the house and think people who are concerned are silly.

-Christmas music has the opposite affect on me and Trevor
(ok, i kind of already knew that one ;)

-77 degrees = winter clothing for Floridians

-My 3-year old nephew Caleb is Spiderman-obsessed. I asked his twin sister Sammy who her favorite character was and she said "Aunt Bri". Smart girl. :)


Other things I want to mention that don't have an all-inclusive category header:

- It snowed all day yesterday, December 1st (this is big news for Chattanooga)

-Heidi and I are making a world dominating gingerbread house for our St. Elmo gingerbread house competition this Saturday...more pictures to come

-Today we are getting our Christmas tree (one way or another at this point)

- I was feeling pretty good about my Christmas shopping progress until talking with 4 people who are done and seem concerned about my level of progress

-Just found a 40% Hobby Lobby coupon that made me smile my bargain-shopper smile
(http://hobbylobby.com/weekly/weekly.cfm?page=2)

-I put Eggnog on my grocery list today which made me smile my Christmas smile

Merry Christmas wishes to all my blog-peeps out there.