Mov'in on Up ...

Well, it is finally here. Spanx is moving to its new home in Buckhead. We are so fortunate to be moving to one of the most luxurious new high rises in Buckhead, the Sovereign.

We are occupying the 17th and 18th floors.

The ribbon cutting ceremony was Thursday evening with champagne for all to celebrate this historic occassion.

Here are Sara (owner) and Laurie Ann (CEO) standing at the main entrance on the 17th floor ready to cut the ribbon and let us see our new digs.



We first stepped into the main entrance on the 17th floor...made are way around and then snuck up to 18 to see the rest.

My team, product development, will live on the 18th floor. It is soooo nice!!!! Can't wait 'till Tuesday, our first day.

Here is my new cubie and the really pretty light fixture above:



Here are Michelle and I in our new cubie's:






A room with a view ...




This is the view from our design room. WOW!


More pics to come when I have a real camera with me. These were taken with my camera phone.

Four Christmases ...

Literally!
I have yet to see the movie, but if it is anything like the Christmas we had this year...then I pretty much know the plot. Don't get me wrong, we had a wonderful week "at home" eating, spending time with family, eating, spending time with family...BUT, we were pooped. Here is our week in review.

It all began on Monday, December 22nd. We left Atlanta and headed to Birmingham.

December 23rd
We spend the morning at Grannie's (my parent's house) before heading to Trussville to spend the evening with Nick's family: Kathy (mom), Alli (sister), Rob (brother-in-law), John (nephew), Mitchell (brother) and Brittany (Mitchell's girlfriend).





We had a steak dinner along with shrimp which Kathy prepared as they do at the Japanese Hibachi Steak restaurants. I have included a video for your enjoyment. She has potential.




December 24th
We headed back to Trussville to have Christmas with Nick's extended family. We had dinner together, the young children opened presents, we read the Christmas story in the Bible, and sang Christmas carols by candlelight.






This was my 10th Christmas Eve spent with Nick's extended family at his grandparents home. It is always one of my fondest memories of the Holiday. His family is much larger than mine and now that there are little children that makes it even more exciting.

After all the gifts were opened and everyone had dinner we read the christmas story in the Bible (Luke 2: 1-20) and we also sang Christmas carols by candlelight.


These pictures are of John listening to the Christmas story being read and waiting on his candle to sing along with the Christmas carols. Mema provided real candles for the adults and little battery powered lights for the children.






We left Mema and Big Daddy's house and headed back to my parents house. When we arrived to my parents house we decided to watch National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. My family watches that movie every Christmas and it is always fun to laugh at Clark and especially Cousin Eddy.

December 25th
We spent the day with my family. We headed to Tuscaloosa around 10:30 after we had opened our gifts and ate breakfast.

We decided not to exchange gifts this year with my extended family. We were happy just spending the holiday together.

Nick and I had to leave my grandmothers house a little early so we could be back in Birmingham in time to have dinner with Nicks dad, Alan, and his family.

We made it and we were able to have a nice evening with them.

Happy Holidays ...

Baby it's cold outside ...

Have you ever just wanted to snuggle up to a fire and drink some hot cocoa, but couldn't because you don't have a fire place? Well, I have a solution ...We have a fire to keep us warm this year.

We discovered the Yule Log and thought we would share our fire with you. Enjoy!

Comcast On Demand offers this feature along with other fun tv backdrops. They even have options that play Christmas music. And doesn't it look festive on our new TV.

Deck the halls ...

Nick and I went to pick out our tree on Sunday night. We had just returned home from our Thanksgiving holiday in AL. I knew he was going out of town and I wanted a tree so we would at least have a few weeks to enjoy it before we went "home" for Christmas.

I was going to tackle the decorations myself, but my friend/decor savior, Michelle, came over and helped me "deck the halls".


She prides herself on being a professional! What do you think?

I LOVE IT!!! and my decoration scheme is going on three years old!