Bowl Bound

In a few hours we are headed to Charlotte, NC to watch WVU play UNC in the Meineke Car Care Bowl at 1 pm. Go Mountianers!!

Christmas- Christmas Day -Part 3

These are some pictures from Christmas Day. We started the day of with reading Luke Chapter 2 and prayer. Then Tracey, Ben and I talked about what we could offer to Jesus this Christmas. Starting the day off like this made it seem the best Christmas ever!!! Then we opened gifts. We did not buy much this year. It was more of things we needed. We did get a new tv for the living room and Ben's room. They are flat screens so they take up less room, plus they are energy efficient!!! What a way to go into 2009- getting greenier!!! We went to my parents around noon and ate dinner and exchanged gifts. My whole family was there. We came home and crashed. I watched Ben play a video game and we had a few visitors. I hope everyone had a blessed Christmas!!

Christmas-Christmas Eve -Part Two

This year we hosted a small dinner for Christmas Eve. My parents and youngest brother came by. We had lots of good food. At 6 we watched a little of the Midnight Mass on TV. I am not catholic, but I always enjoy watching the mass on Christmas eve. At 7 we headed to Christmas Eve service at the new church we have been attending. I am shocked by how many churches in our area did not have a Christmas Eve service. Any way my parents went to the service also and it was awesome. It was called "The Christmas Offering". The pastor asked if we had put Jesus on our list of people to give presents too. He asked what were we offering Jesus this Christmas!! It was great. Here are some pictures from that.

Christmas-The Most Wonderful Time of the Year-Part One

This year we decided to make our decorations simple. I was really wanting to do "a laura ingles" type so we could spend more time on the meaning of Christmas. We put up our tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving so we can enjoy the weeks after with out rushing around.

Tawney Christmas Dinner

On Saturday we headed to Giles for The Tawney's Christmas dinner. It was a great time to see everyone, share a meal and have some good clean fun. There are new additions to the family with more on the way next year. Praise God for family.




This is how we felt after eating way to much!!


The kids had a blast with so many things to do and with so many uncles to play with.


This is a group of the cousins in the family. Mine son is the tall one in the back.


This is Tracey's siblings minus one.



Ben was having fun on this as was everyone else.

We all had a blast. Thanks Linda for hosting this.

Winter Wonderland

Last weekend we took my dad to see his mom in WVA. When we got to Fayetteville, they had 5 inches of snow. Since we are not going to have snow this Christmas, I thought I would share some pictures from the snow we saw.