Winter Wonderland

This is what we woke up to this morning!

Poor Little Birdie

When we went out yesterday to the barn we saw this poor little guy stuck in the feeder! after taking these pictures we lifted the lid and he happily flew away!

Our Trip to Kentucky

We left the morning after Christmas to go to Kentucky for a visit with Alan's Family, it was a 5 1/2 hour drive to get there, we saw some very pretty sights as we traveled through Western Maryland and West Virginia. Ryan slept on the way down and on the way home!
We got to spend a lot of time with the family, Wednesday night we went to church and the family sang for the congregation, Alan's Family is so talented, Jodi played the Piano and the family sang together so beautifully. we went to see the Christmas lights around Ashland and sang some Christmas Carole's to some people that Alan's Mom and Dad knew.
We played games like Monopoly and pass the cup, we watched Facing the Giants and Fly Wheel and we ate a lot of food!
It was so great spending time with everyone and Alan's Mom and Dad did such a wonderful job coordinating everything and making us all very comfortable! It was hard to say good bye and we hope to get together again real soon!

Ryan sleeping on the way there!

Taking a break at a rest stop

Alan's Mom and Cameron

Alan and Cody Playing around!

Trying to give us all a heart attack!

Ryan and Shayanna were inseparable!

and Shared everything!

This is the Family, Debbie, Lawrence, Tori, Josh, Me, Alan,Robin, Ryan,

Gordon, Hettie, Shania,Shayanna, Frank, Cameron, Caleb, Cody, Shadawn and Shanda was taking the picture.

There were 18 family members who could not attend and we missed them all!

Ryan sleeping on the way home!

Merry Christmas

This is the last post I will be able to make until next weekend, We will be Celebrating Christmas with my Grand mother tomorrow and then we leave Wednesday morning to go spend a few days in Kentucky with Alan's family.

From our home to yours, We wish you a very Merry Christmas!

May the Blessings of Christ shine upon You and Your Families as we celebrate the greatest gift ever given to us,

The birth of Jesus!

Christmas with Dad

Dad and Debs Christmas tree!

My Dad and Cierra


Ryan Opening his gifts!
Ryan would not throw any paper on the floor, he would tear off the wrapping and place it in a trash bag!

Amanda, Linda, Kelsey and Bernie

Cierra opening one of her gifts!

Mamaw and Debbie

We Celebrated Christmas at my Dads Last night, I really enjoy the Family all being together, Debbie had everything looking very nice and we had more food to eat, than what we could handle!

Alan got a new jacket and I got a wonderful smelling candle in a perfect country arrangement and a very neat picture of Ryan that looks like the cover of a magazine!

Robin got a similar picture of Ryan and a Necklace which she Loved and some money!

Ryan was so cute opening up all of his gifts, he tried to be neat and would not throw any paper on the floor and he has been enjoying playing with his new truck and tools that he got for Christmas!

It was a very nice evening and Thank You to Dad and Deb for the wonderful gifts but, most important... Thank You for the time spent together!

A Few Christmas Crafts

I thought I would share a few Christmas Crafts that I made for My Self this year! I can not yet put a picture of the crafts I made for my family until after Christmas is over but, these I made for me!

Miniature Mittens for my small country trees!

The pictures did not catch all of the detail though.

I used vintage lace from an old dresser scarf that had seen better days.

And a few have buttons from Ryan's old baby clothes!

This is my first attempt at a crocheted scarf!

I will try to post more pictures after all the gifts have been given out!

I got some awards!!!!

Angelina at Country life gave me not 1 but 3 awards!!!!

These are the very first awards that I have been given for my blog and I am just so happy!

Thank You so much Angelina, I really love reading your blog and you have just made my day!
Here are the awards that she gave to me!

I would like to pass these on to;

Peggy at Hidden Haven Homestead, I always look forward to reading your blog!

Kristie at Insomniac Scrapbook theater, My pal through Peggy's stocking swap!

Loretta at Nooks and Crannies My Best Friend for many, many years!

Woody at Woody's Rocky Ridge, who's writings are always a joy to read!

I would have given them to more but as I see some of you were already tagged, I love all your blogs and I look forward to visiting all my blog Friends every chance I get!

Thank You again Angelina, I am very honored!