This past weekend was a fantastic time in Gatlinburg, TN with my sister Lynda and her husband Bill. It was about the best trip I have taken yet. We arrived on Friday morning, did a bunch of shopping in Sevierville and walking around, and truly enjoyed the Dixie Stampede Christmas show in the evening. The enormous amount of food was delicious, and since they do not supply eating utensils, it was definitely finger lickin good! The show was a beautiful show with lots of snow, fun, and an emotional moving live nativity scene with music and live animals.

This picture was taken from our balcony of one of the buildings where we stayed. Like all resorts, the buildings are all identical. Very nice accomodations. Wal-Mart about 1/2 mile away!


Saturday we rode three trollies to get ourselves to Gatlinburg. We spent the day there mostly walking around all the quaint shopps. Did not buy anything except a few sourveniers. In the evening we took a trolley tour of lights through Gatlinburg. That was very pretty and we got a nice brief history of the area. The weather Friday and Saturday was quite chilly but no rain. There were plenty of places to duck in for some warmth.

Some of the attractions along the trolley rides were quite interesting!

Gatlinburg had some unusual decorations that filled the air with the Christmas Spirit.

So pretty, but looked so cold!

Everything is decorated in Gatlinburg for Christmas.

It is always fun to try silly hats on!

Not sure what these lizards had to do with Christmas!

There were also some serious moments!

Sunday was the end of the vacation and time to come home. We drove home in a light rain all the way, which was only 2 hours from my sister's house. Did not do much for the afternoon except unpack my car, went to see my niece's silent auction items at her church. She is trying to raise money for a new curriculum for the day care.

All good times in this season always end with Santa Clause!

My message to all - HAVE A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS!

This will be a quick blog entry today. This weekend Melissa and I decorated the doll house for Christmas. I did get my tree finished, and that is all the decorating I will have time to do. A couple of these pictures are a little blurry, but you can at least get the overall of it all. We had so much fun doing this.

Have a wonderful Holiday Season!

Have a blessed Christmas!

Myrtle Beach

Thanksgiving at my mother in laws was a very wonderful day. All the family was there, and the food was great as usual. Friday, all of us women left for Myrtle Beach for a weekend of fun and relaxation. As you can see, the beach was not quite summer weather, but we had fun. Cobii built sand castles.


Melissa and I were trying not to blow away.

Cobii and her best friend Kitty kat.

More strolling on the beach just before we left to come home.

Carrie -

Kat got Cobii the cutest tea set at the Disney store. Boy did we have tea parties.

Patches - doing who knows what. Think the girls were getting ready for a trip to the pool - indoor heated of course.

Our weekend was a lot of fun. Everyone had a great time, and we were all safe on the road.