That is German for MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Hey everyone! Hope everyone had a good work week. I swear that it’s been the longest week for me. I guess because I’m so anxious about the holidays. I cannot wait until next Wednesday. I love going to my grandmother’s on Christmas Eve…its always so much fun.

Nothing has really happened in the life of Johnathon this week. Been getting up at 4 am every morning and coming to work. I guess the only things that have happened was that I did get all my Christmas shopping done last weekend. It took me two days to wrap all my presents & I shaved off my goatee. Last night, after I had shaved my head, I thought that I might just see how I would look with my goatee gone. In the process of shaving that off, I realized that I look really good with a mustache. So this morning, I’m sporting an awesome ‘stache. My stepmother said that I look like a 70’s porn star LOL.I don’t know about that, but I’m still not used to it. I’ll try to get a picture of it tonight.

Well, tonight is my friends in Tupelo Annual Christmas Party/Bubba’s birthday party. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. It’s been over a month since I’ve seen them. We are going to be having it this year at Logan’s Roadhouse in Tupelo. We usually have it at Bubba’s house in Okolona, but we decided to have it at Logan’s this year. I hope that a lot of people show up tonight. My friend Justin said that we have reserved at least 20 seats, so hopefully we can fill them all. I’ll make sure to take some pictures and post them on here.

Well, this is probably my last post until after the Christmas holidays. I will be getting everything ready next week, so I can get off at 10 am Wednesday. Whenever I get off work Wednesday, I have got to go to a Christmas Eve luncheon at Mi Pueblo in Ripley for the 2nd Annual Pine Grove High School Class of 1999 lunch. We had it last year, but we had to eat at Subway because Mi Pueblo was closed. This Tuesday, I had called to make sure that they was going to be opened and thank goodness because I eat Subway all the time and I think I want some steak fajita nachos. LOL Well, after that, I head home and gather all my presents and food and head on over to Mamaw Maria’s house. We will start to eat around 5:30 – 6:00 and then after everybody has eaten and all the dishes are washed. We will open up presents. We start with the young ones first and then we open the adult presents. Then after all the “regular” presents are opened, we play a game with our gag gifts. My gag gift this year is AWESOME! I think whoever gets it would like it a lot. Well, after that is done with. Each family there will get their picture taken…that alone usually takes about 45 minutes to an hour, but that’s a tradition that we have done ever since I can remember. It’s funny to look back and see how everyone has changed. Everyone usually says, man look at that hair, or can you believe what I am wearing. LMAO. Well, after all the pictures and gifts, we usually head back into the kitchen and my aunts, Sandra & Julie, will be making our special Christmas punch and we will usually drink that and “graze” LOL As the night is winding down around 11-ish, we are usually playing games or something of that nature. Christmas is always a big deal on that side of the family. We may have our differences through the year, but on Christmas Eve the whole family comes together as one and we have a BLAST. Around midnight-ish, we usually head on home.

Then on Christmas Day, I get up at the butt crack of dawn & eat breakfast at Mamaw Gearlie & Papaw Johnny’s house. It’s always so good. We usually have sausage, tenderloin, ham, white gravy, chocolate gravy, homemade biscuits, eggs, brains & eggs (which by the way is NASTY, but Daddy & Papaw likes them). Brains & eggs are a delicacy here in the South. I just can’t imagine eating brains…nasty!! Then after everyone eats & opens presents, we usually just go on home because Brian & Cortney have to go to Falkner and I will just go up Daddy’s and hang out with Jessica & Red. We are supposed to be going to my great-grandmother’s, Mamaw Newby, at lunch. We used to go there at night, but we decided to have my Daddy’s Christmas at night this year. After Mamaw’s, we will go back home and Daddy will go get the barbeque from Rib Shack in Corinth, and we will have supper. We are going to try to do a Christmas supper like we have at Mamaw Maria’s this year.

Well, that is my Christmas festivities in a nutshell. I will make sure to post my pictures of everything when I come back.

I hope all of you have a GREAT CHRISTMAS!!! May Santa Claus be good to you this year!!

Happy Holidays,
Johnathon

EVERYBODY LOVES THE BABY JESUS!!!