Christmas at Biltmore

 Last Tuesday, Michael and I made a quick trip to Biltmore to see the Christmas decor.  We were about to leave and hadn't took any pictures.  So we pulled over and took a few by the water. 

 

We also swung by his uncle's house...but didn't take any pics there. 

Christmas Day @ Mom's

We snapped a few pictures in Mom's front yard on Christmas Day.  I was happy with how they turned out. 

This one with Papaw may be my all time favorite!

Merry Christmas

From the Joneses...and a poor neglected blog.

Here's to another week off work and (hopefully) some blog updates!

Christmas Play Decor

I just remembered these photos and wanted to post them.  They were some of the scenery from our church Christmas play.  Michael and I were able to help out a little while the majority of the work was done by the Edwards Family and Mrs. Beth. 

The last of my Christmas extravaganzas posts!

    We left the snow covered McDonald and headed to my mom's around lunch time on Saturday.  As usual the house was packed with family. 

     My extremely cool papaw ruppe has a box of used shot gun shells.  He puts a paper into each shell to tell what he killed with it, the date and the time.  Looking at this kept the boys busy for a while.  

 

 My sisters

 Our little family

 

    Most of the cousins.

Christmas adventures part two

     Christmas continued for us on Friday. We spent a quiet morning at home together and shared Christmas as our family of two...and I totally didn't take one picture.


     That evening we drove down to his mom's and dad's and enjoyed looking at Christmas lights with them. We went to bed and awoke to a very white Christmas on Saturday.

Jimmy very intent on making a large snowman!

Michael and Nate having a nerf gun war.  Steve's bedroom may never be the same.

   

Christmas recap numero uno

Our Christmas rush-around-like-mad-men festivities began on Thursday with Christmas at my mom's. 

 Doesn't my mommy look like herself again?

 We were a little confused with this present.....mom might look like herself again, but she still has blond moments of accidentally writing the wrong names on presents. 

 Renee got a really cool gumball machine!

 Renee with crazy eyes doing some balancing acts.