Fa La La La La

It is that time of year again, Christmas! We have our home decorated with our traditional non-traditional Krinkle tree. There is a story behind this wonderful creation of a tree. My mother and I started collecting Patience Bruster's Dept 56 Krinkles several years ago. They were sold at Macy's and other department stores, but were somewhat hard to find. One day my grandmother, in Nashville, ran into Macy's to look for some of the ornaments. Instead, she walked out with the Krinkles display tree. She wrapped it up and gave it to me that Christmas three years ago and thus, our non-traditional masterpiece, with a high heel base, graces our living room every year. It is so fun, I love it! While we do have pretty simple stockings hung now, we are currently collecting the very scare Krinkles stockings. They will be hung next year in their full glory; I can't wait!

Last year we spent the holiday with the Bovines in Dayton and thus, this year we are headed to the Stanleys in Colombus, GA. I can't wait to experience the traditons of my husband's family. It will also be Buckley's first Christmas! My little precious baby will get to chew open his own rawhide and cute t-shirt. So fun, I love Christmas!

Giving Thanks

Today is "cyber Monday". I actually didn't know that until the Today's show revealed this little known fact. It is characterized by online bargain shopping the Monday after Black Friday. That also means that Thanksgiving has come to a complete close. It was a terrific holiday. Brandon and I traveled to Dayton and Nashville to spend some well overdue time with the Bovines. I realized I hadn't seen anyone at all since our wedding, which has now been over a year. We kissed over pumpkins, but that's not all...

We cooked, ate, drank, played and ended the night with the new Indiana Jones movie.
Worst movie, ever. It was pretty terrible; we should have turned it off after the first 5 minutes. We did however, have fun. My grandmother has re-done her house and it is beautiful. My second cousins, Emi-Lee, Jack and Lilly, are precious and so grown up. My cousins are wonderful except they seemed to have left the Kentucky cold down here after the mild Thanksgiving day we had. Mom, Mamaw and I went shopping the day after Turkey day; they wore me flat out. It was great! After we came home from shopping on Friday, Brandon, Dad and Nate went for a quail hunt Saturday morning.

They loaded up in the dark in the truck and off they went..
This is what the many hours in the field produced: 23 dead quail

When Tucker got home we had to get another picture:

My mother and I experimented in the kitchen while they were gone with goat cheese and almond stuffed dates wrapped in bacon, sausage balls and Harry and David chip dip. Everything turned out wonderfully. Those boys were hungry when they got back. Everything was eaten even the birds.

We have a lot to be thankful for. Thanks Mom and Dad for having us all (even Nate's laundry) come to Dayton for all festivities, we had a great time. Thanks Mamaw for letting us stay the night with you and to Uncle Robert and Aunt Barbara for the great food.