Christmas Morn at Home Sweet Home

Our first Christmas in our new home.
2009

It's not the place, it's the people.

It's not the outward, it's the inward.

OH WOW!!!! Cale gave Scot a cordless drill.

Hmmmm, I bet his mind was going wild about now with all the things he could do with this!

Noelle gave Scot jeans and I gave him 2 new outfits.

Cale got needful things. We couldn't get his puppy until New Years Eve, and we wanted him to have some gifts to open. He needed new shirts and warm ups, so that's what he opened on Christmas morn. Noelle gave him 2 new shirts also.

Noelle found lotion, mirror, chap stick, bubble bath, and favorite candies in her stocking.

What is in the stocking? This year it held Sudoku books, favorite candies, lotion, chap stick, etc.

Noelle is hugging her books! She also got a coat, scarf, and gloves. Cale gave her 2 cd's that she had wished for.

Christmas morning, Cale got money to go buy this sweet baby!

Noelle loves her coat, scarf, and gloves!

This is my surprise gift from Scot. (notice the small long gift duck taped on top) (screw driver!) He got me a coat, but I tried it on, so I knew I was getting it. Scot's rule for Christmas is that you CANNOT know everything you are getting; there has to be a surprise. You'd be SURPRISED to hear all the stories I could tell from the past 25 Christmas's and birthdays that involves Scot's surprises! Rolls of duck tape and paper, rocks, and locking me out of the house are just a small part of all the PRECIOUS memories!

"Oh, you made me something!" (yea right!) lol. Inside the cardboard box was a wooden box, SCREWED TOGETHER! What a guy!

Forget the screwdriver; I'm sure glad Cale bought Scot a drill!

Lodge cast iron skillet

Don't think Scot did me bad! ha. I had wished for one of these. He was with me when I was looking at them. I had one when we married, but didn't appreciate it like I should have and sold it in a yard sale years later. My mother's corn bread was always cooked in one of these, and it was ALWAYS delicious! I will appreciate this one and take very good care of it. Cale gave me pink fuzzy house shoes and Noelle gave me some new Winter wall flower refills.

What a woman can do with a drill and a fryin' pan!

Me and my sweetie!

Our new coats!

And a Merry Christmas was had by all....because of LOVE!

Christmas Day at Ma Ma and Pa Pa G's House

Ma Ma G sporting her monogrammed mule apron!

After a delicious lunch, we opened gifts...

and the kids dug into their stockings...

and smiled...
(Cale, Meagan, Noelle, Chrissy, and Tristen)

and laughed...

and played...

and played monopoly...

and this!
(Scot and his sister Kim)

Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve, my parents came to our house to open gifts and eat supper.

Our menu was Pork chops (bbq and plain), Dotty's green beans, purple hull peas, corn, creamed potatoes, baked beans with bacon, english peas, corn bread, rolls, and chocolate cake.

Ma Wanda and Pa Pa James, Noelle, & Cale

Gift time

Scot is always up to something when it comes to gifts!

We had bought daddy a jacket...

The jacket was neatly wrapped in a box, but Scot took the hanger it came on and wrapped it too!

Mother got a Westinghouse Solar Light set.

Noelle is zurping her daddy!

Happy Birthday Dear Jesus!

Yummy cake

After we opened gifts and ate supper, we played Chicken foot dominoes.

Mother was hyper!...she had us all rolling with laughter!

Noelle was also hyper and in a giggly fun mood!

I am so very thankful for my family and for God allowing us to celebrate another Christmas together.

Pounders Family Supper

Some of the Pounders family met at Jack's in Red Bay for supper Dec. 22,09

Uncle Dexter, his wife Sharon, daughter Anna, son Brian, Anna's husband Aaron, and Brian's son Nicholas.

Sharon's sister Brenda, Anna, and Nicholas

Scot and Mark (My cousin Susan's husband)

Me and Susan

Mark and Cale

Jennifer and me
When Jennifer was a little girl, she told her mother that she didn't like her middle name (Rose) and that she wanted a middle name like Liesa's (Jo), so I told her that we'd swap. From then on, I called her Jennifer Jo and me Liesa Rose!

Jennifer's baby girl Marieshah Lynn

Noelle is holding Alex Nathaniel, Jennifer's baby boy.

Alex was born on our Grandmother Claudie Pounder's birthday.

Freedom's Christmas Program

Our Youth at Freedom presented a Christmas program Sunday night, December 20th. The program included scripture readings from Luke telling of Christ's birth and several Christmas songs. After the program, Bro. Scot gave a short devotion and invitation. Our night concluded with a fellowship meal of pork loins, pulled pork, ribs, deer tenderloin, baked beans, potato salad, Cole slaw, and desserts. The young people did a wonderful job singing. We were all so proud of them.

I called this "The Young people and Liesa!"
Front row from left: Matt, Cale
Middle row from left: Dani, Ty
Back row from left: Erin, Brooke, Me, Jessie and Noelle

It was a blessed evening with Christ as the main focus.