Birthday/Christmas photos!

I mooched these pictures off my mom's Kodak Easy Share website! Thanks, Mom!



My birthday (27, getting up there) - thanks for the awesome backpack, Mom and Dad!



Bea's birthday (22) - pretending we are Japanese.



Phil explains a play to Austin



My nephew is too flippin' cute for words to describe!

Dora and I enjoyed some quality snuggle time on the couch on Christmas morning.

Christmas dinner with the whole fam.. Bea, me, Phil, Dad, Mom, Steph, Austin, and Ben

Romans 5:15

"But there is a great difference between Adam's sin and God's gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ."

I am so grateful to God for the greatest Christmas gift of all, Jesus Christ! And I am listening to Christmas music until at LEAST New Year's!!!

Merry Christmas!

We just returned from Germantown, where we had a fun-filled Christmas with my family. I was there for 10 days because I lucked out and got assigned to a project where the client is headquartered in Memphis. So I actually spent my birthday with my family while Phil was still here in Dallas. Phil flew out on Saturday because he had to work all last week.

My 3-year-old nephew Austin cracked us up the whole time we were there. On Christmas eve, he spent a lot of time playing around while we read from the Bible. Afterward, Steph asked him if he had listened to the Bible verses. He looked up with the most innocent face and carefully enunciated: "I did not." The next morning he got a beautifully decorated sugar cookie wrapped in cellophane in his stocking. It was a Christmas tree cookie. My mom asked him what it was and he replied, "A Twismas twee tookie."

Sadly, I don't have any pictures to post yet... our camera is broken so I am waiting on Steph, Brittany, or Mom to email a few for me to post.

Merry Christmas with love from Courtney, Phil, Ruby, and Dora, and here's to an awesome 2008!!!

More fun with Photo Booth

Thanks for the awesome sweatshirt, Mama Roxie and Daddy Phil!!!

A Christmas lesson to remember...

Ruby and Dora are going to love this!!!

Peabody ducks

I have been in sunny Florida all week. Great, huh? Except that pretty much all I've seen is the dreary inside of the facilities at the Orlando Convention Center! They might as well make us have training in South Dakota or something. Don't torture me by sending me somewhere sunny and nice and then make me sit inside all day!!!

We did stay at the Peabody Hotel, though, which was very nice. One afternoon I got out of class early enough to see the ducks march from the fountain onto the red carpet and into the elevator. Very cute. (Although the fountain at the original Peabody in Memphis, as I recall, is much bigger and better!)

And if any Bogott family members recall the "incident" with the amorous ducks in Memphis, well... it happened while I was watching the ducks here, too. Unfortunately I didn't capture a picture of it on my camera phone, but it was hilarious.

But, here's someone else's YouTube video of the marching of the ducks at the Orlando location - enjoy!