Christmas 2010

We had a very nice Christmas weekend; Mom was with us from PA. For Christmas Eve, we participated with our church at Room in the Inn, a ministry to the homeless. On Christmas morning we woke up to a dusting of snow. We opened gifts and had a quiet morning. We went to Sharon and Brad's late morning to spend the rest of the day at their house. We had been instructed to come up with an activity for Christmas afternoon, so Steve suggested a sugar cookie decorating competition. We baked two large sugar cookies and the guys had one to decorate and the ladies had the other one to decorate. You can see the fruits of our labors below. Since we didn't have a non-biased judge, we were all winners! We had a very fine snow all day and what is usually a 50 minute trip home, turned into a 2-1/2 hour trip home, but we arrived safely so that's what mattered. We had more snow during the night and throughout the day on Sunday.

Jenna models her new Steelers snuggy.

The cookie on the left was done by the ladies; the one on the right by the guys.

Birthday Celebration

We spent Saturday celebrating my birthday. We first met Sharon and Brad at City Limits cafe for lunch. Afterwards we headed out to Opryland Hotel; I wanted to see what changes were made since they re-opened after the May flood. It's a gorgeous hotel and they did an amazing job on renovations and reopening just five months after the flood. Of course it didn't have the same atmosphere as it would if we were there at night, but it was pretty nonetheless. After being at Opryland we went to downton Nashville and had dinner at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville restaurant that's only been open a few months. The atmosphere was fun and the food delicious! We topped off the evening by getting ice cream.