Cleaning Week

This week we are having cleaning week at the Motts. We have all been cleaning out our rooms and other rooms in the house. Laura Cameron decided to paint her room this week.  She still has a lot of things to get from her house in Auburn.

This is how it looks now. We are trying to decide if we are going to keep it white or paint it yellow or green.

Elizabeth has been catching up on her sleep over the entire holidays.  She should be well rested by the time she goes back.

We went to Prattville on Tuesday night to eat and Laura Cameron went to see William. We made a major purchase...our first FLAT SCREEN TV! We are soo proud...Britt said instead of Glendale that we would just settle for a new TV!  We are loving our new TV and can't wait to cheer on our Auburn Tigers to a National Championship!

We are getting ready for the New Year!  Not sure what we are doing yet though.  Hope you have a Happy New Year!

For Unto Us A Child Is Born

Happy Birthday Jesus!! "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."


We have had an amazing Christmas this year. The Champion side of the family celebrated Christmas at my sister's house (Carol). We all gathered at their new house in Hayneville and it was lots of fun catching up and sharing memories from past years. Unfortunately, our photographer was unable to attend (she was at the Rockettes with William); therefore, we do not have any pictures from that Christmas celebration. 
There are two parts to this post because our photographer had too many photos that she wanted to share.
PART I-

After having a photo shoot with Laura Cameron's new camera, we headed to the Christmas Eve Vespers service at our church. After the service, we went to Nina's house (Britt's aunt) in Sardis to celebrate Christmas with the Mott family. Everybody was there!

Nina gave the boys these toboggans and we had so much fun watching them show off their new hats.

PART II

On Christmas morning, Laura Cameron, was the first one to wake up.  Once we got Elizabeth to get out of the bed, we opened gifts.

We got Britt a Garmin watch that he has been wanting for a while. His new hobby is running and this is something that all of his "running gang" has...he was VERY surprised so we were happy that we kept it a secret!

Laura Cameron's favorite gifts were probably all of her new teacher supplies that she got. She is in love with buying teacher/school supplies. Elizabeth is sporting her new vest that she loves and she also got GLEE season 1 (which has kept her occupied since Christmas morning).

After opening presents, we ate our traditional Christmas quiche breakfast. Britt made this while the girls were opening presents.

For lunch we headed to the Mott's(Granny and Grandaddy) house for yet another Christmas meal. When we got back home, everyone crashed for their afternoon naps.  Elizabeth and Laura Cameron had fun watching Glee episodes, while Britt watched the SEC Championship game again and I read my new book Playing with a Purpose:  Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, and Colt McCoy, my favorite boys.  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Today has consisted of eating and sleeping. Mom woke up sick this morning and has not felt good all day. Dad saved the day by cooking us an amazing breakfast.

I woke up to the smell of bacon, biscuits, eggs, and grits.

Dad voluntarily took KP (kitchen patrol) and the girls went to cleaning. Elizabeth and I cleaned our rooms while listening to GLEE Christmas (our new obsession) and helped mom around the house. That lasted for about 30 minutes until Aunt Beth came to visit and saved us from cleaning (I guess we will get back to that later:)).

Dad is currently playing "yard man" outside. He keeps begging me to come help because I actually did a few weeks ago when William was here...although we both weren't very happy about doing it!

Mom and Elizabeth are taking naps and I am currently reading old journals from my college math classes. I already knew that those years of listening to lectures about HOW to teach kids did not help me as much as my lab experiences where I actually taught the kids...I just wish we had more practice with children and applying the math techniques rather than hearing our professor tell us about them...oh well! I am now going to read, "The First Days of School" by Harry K. Wong. This is a great book that we studied in one of the ONLY valuable classes I ever took in college. I will be posting more pictures later tonight from my cookie party I had yesterday...I'll get around to doing that after I stalk a few wedding websites:) Hope you are having a wonderful Christmas Eve! -LauraCam

My little elves

Laura Cameron and Elizabeth were very busy tonight. Laura Cameron has been interested in cooking recently, so I let her be in charge of making these new cookies that I found in Southern Living.

It was a pretty simple recipe to follow and I only had to help her a few times:) While Laura Cameron was baking, Elizabeth was busy wrapping presents. She was not in the mood to bake, so wrapping presents was a good job for her tonight.

She did a great job helping me and acting as Mrs. Claus for the night. These are a few pictures from Laura Cameron's new treat. We are loving using her new camera to capture all of our baking moments.

They were delicious and we are looking forward to making them again over the Holidays. Finally, I wanted to share what Britt was doing while we were devouring cookies and cheese straws..

Family Fun

My mom and dad came in town today to eat lunch.  Laura Cameron and I met them at the Golden Ranch.  Aly came too.  After lunch, they came by the house to visit.  Daddy stayed out in the car reading his Birmingham News while Nan came inside to visit with Laura Cameron and me. Laura Cameron showed Mom her new camera, which she bought with graduation money from the family. Before Mom left, she grabbed her a few chocolate kisses.

When we went outside to say goodbye, Daddy had fallen asleep in the car.  When Mom opened the door, Daddy jumped up and acted like he was reading the newspaper. 

Elizabeth returned from the Justin Bieber concert soon after they left. I think we all had a little too much "Bieber Fever" because we all three crashed for about two hours. It felt great to catch an afternoon nap.

My new blog

I have created this blog for my mother. She is obsessed with blogs and she has always wanted her own blog. She is a wonderful writer and is too shy to ever admit it. I hope she enjoys her blog and is able to show off her true talent. I did this as part of a birthday present for her because her birthday was yesterday....happy late birthday mom!! -Laura Cameron