Christmas Act I

Ok, so I am not a very devoted blogger!  :) This year Christmas was so much fun. Let me begin at the beginning. My grandaddy ALWAYS decorates their yard for Christmas. This is a huge part of our family tradition. In recent years he has scaled back a little but, this year's display was one of my favorites. I tried to take some pics at night when everything is lit up- but they don't do it justice.

This summer our Christmas decorations were stolen out of a storage building. ( I am still a little bitter!) So we had to start over on the decoration front. We just did one tree this year and did not do much to our yard.



I was off the week of Christmas and Aaden and I had fun helping my mom and grandma bake and get things ready. Ethan, my youngest brother, and I cut out many, many cookies and Hunter, my cousin, helped to decorate them.

More to come..... maybe!

It is Official!

My original "little" brother, Josh, got married yesterday. He and his sweet bride Rachel were married in Jamacia (rum drinks and reggae!). I got really sad thinking about it. I guess I just still picture him being small enough that I can shove his head under the couch cushions and sit on him ( he could be really annoying!). I know that they will be very happy together in the frozen north of Ohio. They have each started to blog and their blogs can be found on my side bar. They are : All Our Little Moments and The Collected Works. Together they make up 1/2 of my readers! I am not good enough to make a link to their blogs! (Susannah- tell me how please!)

Best Wishes For A Bright Future!

Turkey Day and Senior Citizen Discounts

Well I am offically married to an "older" man. Anthony turned the big 3-0 last Tuesday. To celebrate, the 3 of us pack everything but the kitchen sink and headed off to Pigeon Forge. We had a fantastic time. Did I mention that on the ride up there Aaden wasgetting a tooth (which we didn't really know at the time) and had a terrible cold? Anthony figured out that we should try playing DVDs on the laptop. So we stopped and bought Max and Ruby. Six LOOONG episodes of Max and Ruby, I have never really wanted to harm a woodland creature so bad in my life. It did the trick so I tried to keep my murderous thoughts to myself. I also want to know where the heck are Max and Ruby's parents at? They are never around. Ruby takes care of Max and the Grandma pops in every now and then, but there is no real supervision!!!!

Anyhow! We loved the cabin we stayed in and ate tons of great food. We ate at the Apple Barn twice- yum,yum! We also cooked our own Thanksgiving meal. Aaden was such a little trooper. We knew that he didn't feel great but we were still able to do the things we had planned on. These things included: eating, shopping, eating, shopping, looking at Christmas Lights, eating, going to Roaring Forks, shopping, oh and eating!

I hope that everyone had the wonderfully blessed holiday that we did!