First Deer

Our nephew, Houston, came by tonight to show us his first deer that he killed. It's a doe and she was a good size. He was grinning from ear to ear. We were very happy for him!

Abby chooses.....

Well, the verdict is in, Abby is a Clemson fan! How do I know this? Well, for Christmas Abby got 2 Gamecock tennis balls from my parents. We gave them to Abby when we got home and immediately she started tearing them apart. Then the other day I was throwing the ball with Abby and she continued to tear it apart. Now, she does like to tear up a tennis ball, but she hasn't done this in a long time. So I decided that she doesn't like the Gamecocks and she was showing us how she felt about them.

Christmas Unwrapped

Well, its hard to believe that Christmas is over! All that shopping and planning and now it's gone and another year is about to come to an end. Here's what our Christmas was like: Last Sunday night it all began with a Sunday School party. We had good food, lots of laughs, and Kevin did Karaoke and sang "Grandma got run over by a reindeer". He thinks that his musical debut will led to MCA records calling. But honestly, he didn't do that bad. Tuesday night, we celebrated with Kevin's dad's side of the family at Grandma Kitty's cook house. Again, there was more food and lots of laughs. Grandma Kitty got our nephews this air gun that can shoot out ping pong balls and that got a little out of hand. As you can imagine. She did say that for Easter she was going to buy enough for everyone so we can all shoot one another. Kevin and I headed to Greenville on Christmas Eve. We got together with my dad's side of the family in Anderson that night for again, more food and laughs. Christmas day we exchanged gifts with my parents in the morning. At lunch, my mom's side of the family came over and we opened gifts. Then that night we went up to my cousin's house for again, more food and laughs. After dinner, we spent the next few hours watching and playing the Wii. Friday morning, Kevin and I headed back to Blackville to exchange with each other and our precious pooch Abby. Then we headed over to have Christmas with Kevin's brothers and sisters, and nieces and nephews. That was a crazy time, but it always is when you have 8 kids and 10 big kids. Which included the big boys shooting a fake deer with a bow and arrow, while the women cooked breakfast for dinner. While the little ones wondered about the gifts under the tree. But Kevin and I were so blessed to be able to be surrounded with family for Christmas.

This is our stockings for Christmas at

Kevin's parents house.

Our nephew, Geoffery, watching t.v.


Our nieces: Autumn, Taylor, Layla

Our nieces: Kayla and Lily Kate

got horses for Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the McCormicks!

It's Christmas Time! Last year was so special because Kevin and I were engaged and it was my last Christmas at home living in my parents house. This year, is exciting because it's Kevin and my first Christmas together as a married couple. School ended at 11:30 Friday morning for Christmas break. I am so excited about the break and not having to worry about lesson plans and grading papers for awhile. My Christmas break will be busy. My parents came down this weekend. Today is my dad's 60th birthday! Tonight we have a Sunday School Christmas party to go to in just a few hours. Then Tuesday we have Christmas with Kevin's dad's side of the family. Christmas Eve we are headed to Greenville. That night we are getting together with my dad's side of the family in Anderson for presents. Then Christmas Day we will get up to find out what Santa has brought. Then at lunch time we will get together with my mom's side of the family for presents. Christmas Day night we are headed over to my cousin's house to eat. Then we will head back to Blackville Friday around lunch time. Friday night we will get together with all of Kevin's sisters and their children. Sometime in between all of the family things, Kevin and I will get to celebrate Christmas together and of course Abby is included! So, I don't know if I will have a chance to blog much this up coming week.



Kevin and I wanted to wish everyone a joyous Christmas and enjoy being with your family, friends, and remember the reason why we celebrate. God gave us the greatest gift of all...our Savior, Jesus Christ!


The perfect Christmas tree! And yes, it is real.






This is our fireplace, as you can tell.

Want to Exchange Gifts with Jesus?

This morning our pastor talked about exchanging gifts with Jesus. The verse was Matthew 2:1-11. He read us the Christmas story. In the Bible it tells us that the 3 wise men brought Jesus gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh.

1. Bring God your GOLD at Christmas. Your gold is something that you treasure and is something that is the best of life. God wants you to give it to Him. He wants you to serve those that He served, to love those that He loved, and to get out of your comfort zone.

2. Give God your CIRCUMSTANCES at Christmas. Give Him all your dreams and aspirations. Give Him everything that is going on in your life whether its good or bad.

3. Give God your MUD at Christmas. Give Him all your sins and mistakes and repent from them.

With this gift exchange, He will gladly, willingly take it all and in return He'll give you the gift of salvation and everlasting life. Can't ask for anything any better for Christmas, now can you?

Our Anniversary

Today, is our 6Th month anniversary of being husband and wife. It's hard to believe that it has already been 6 months since our wedding. What is even harder to realize is that yesterday was a year that Kevin proposed. Here's our proposal story....

Once upon a time...............

It was December 20, 2007, Thursday. Kevin was coming up that next day to spend the weekend with me and family and we were going to have Christmas. Then I would come down that week to spend Christmas with him and his family. Anyways, I knew that a ring was on it's way, but I thought that it would come that Friday. Well, I was babysitting my cousin Emily for the day. We were hanging out and doing Christmas things, like making a gingerbread tree, which wasn't the prettiest thing in the world when we got done with it, but it was very colorful. Well, earlier in the week my mom had said that on Thursday, we would do something special for my dad's birthday. See, my dad's birthday is on the 21st of December. We always go to eat at Red Lobster for his birthday, that's his favorite place to go. So, my mom said that instead, let's do something different and go down town Greenville to eat. She told me that I had to be dressed and ready to go by 4:30. So I get home, get dressed and we leave. We get down town and were riding around looking for a place to park and a place to eat. I kept on suggesting places, but my parents kept on turning them down. Well, we pulled up the Westen Poinsett Hotel and we stopped. There were some people crossing. All of a sudden my car door opens, and my dad says "hop out", I looked and it was Kevin. I was in total shock! Well, silly me, I thought for some reason that he was going to get in the car with us and go eat somewhere. Nope, I got out and my parents drove off. I asked Kevin where were they going, and he said to eat a Red Lobster. Well, then it hit me as to what was going on. We stopped in front of this hotel, because during Christmas and New Years, they have carriage rides. They will take you down town and it's so pretty because everything is all light up and glowing. The carriage wasn't there yet and it was so cold. Then it started to rain, so we stood inside this flower shop to wait. I had figured out why were were standing there and noticed that it was raining. I new what Kevin was up to, so I started to pray that we would still be able to go on the carriage, because I knew that he had put a lot of thought and work into this and I didn't want it to be ruined for his sake. And of course I was excited too, but also a little nervous. Finally, the carriage shown up. The man made us wait, and he put up the top, which made it look like Cinderella's carriage. Even though it was raining it was still perfect, because now the carriage was more cozy. We went along down main street and when we got to the bridge that goes over the park, Kevin got down on one knee (in the moving carriage) and proposed. And of course I said "yes". We finished out our carriage ride. I found out that Kevin had already arranged this with the man, and that he knew it was a proposal, and even though it was raining he let Kevin use it. It was so sweet and so romantic! I couldn't have of thought of anything any better. We had been on that carriage ride the first Christmas that we were together, so I guess that's where he got the idea. The other twist to the story was that the ring came in the day before Kevin proposed. He got to Greenville 3 hours before he was going to propose to pick up the ring. Thankfully everything was okay with it, because it was a special order. I am so excited about our first Christmas together as a married couple!

Wild Backyard 2

As I have mentioned before, we have all kinds of creatures that live in our backyard. Yesterday, Kevin was clearing off some land to burn it. While he was doing this, he had all kinds of animals that he was running out of their home, like rabbits, and wolf rats. The most exciting one, was an armadillo. Kevin has been seeing this armadillo for awhile now and has tried to get a picture of it. Well, I was at the house and Kevin called me to hurry down there and I could get a picture of it. So here is my dad, Kevin, and myself running down this armadillo to try to get a good picture of it. The whole since I am sure looking pretty funny. But here's a picture.

And believe it or not, they are very fast little runners!

We also ran out a opossum. Well, actually Mr. Tim ran over it with the tractor and I think it was still dazed because it didn't move very fast

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