Christmas 2009

We started our Christmas festivities back in November with our first trip to the Silver Dollar City Christmas Festival. The first time you hear "The Tree" it all begins! Our first gift exchange was this last weekend and was such fun for us. We enjoy watching all opening gifts, of course we had lists to guide us, so I think they were all happy! I know I was with mine, each specially chosen for me by those I love, Thank You

 Have to say The Nutcracker was a highlight and will look forward to it again sometime. And that was only the beginning! Will have more pictures and stories as we grow closer to the end of this year

Fun Weekend

After a long work week we headed to Silver Dollar City to meet David, Casey and Boys! It was a beautiful evening, we are getting spoiled as far as the weather for this years Christmas Festival. Even Henri enjoyed the night. We stayed till closing. I had to work till noon on Sat but we were still in Branson by 1:15! We got to spend the afternoon with Aaron and William. It was another great day and so we played golf. They are a lot of fun and we had a great time. We ended the day at Branson Landing with dinner on the deck at Texas Land & Cattle, one of those evenings that will be remembered! Thanksgiving is next!

Christmas at Silver Dollar City

It was 76 degrees Saturday but

we had planned on going to the Christmas Festival ~ so we went! I have to say it was a beautiful evening and once it was dark we really enjoyed the lights, parade and Tree no matter the temp. probably more! It was very crowded but we had good luck on parking and  didn't even stand in food lines very long. Sophia enjoyed the parade and then we ended the evening with The Tree! It is our favorite part!

We had a wonderful weekend visit and Sunday morning we started our day with the ever favorite BlueBerry French Toast! It is a great beginning to the Holiday season!

Life After Vacation

It is hard to believe we have been home for a month and how quickly we fall back into routine. October has come and gone! And I am just going to put all down at once. We enjoyed one of Bill's wines as our homecoming wine. It is  good to relive all the memories with each one we open.

Then we were off to see Henri and celebrate birthdays we had missed.  Both were delightful!

Work is work for both of us and we do it all week so we can enjoy the weekends more, we have done some things around the house, sorting, cleaning and rearrangeing, one project leads to another.

But we did take time off for Silver Dollar City Fall Festival, it hasn't changed much but that is part of why we love it. We finished up with Halloween! This year Allison was Kate +8 and she was a good one!

Now we are onto November and it should be full of family and fun!!

Bed and Breakfast

A part of our vacation included 3 Bed and Breakfast's. We went to our first B & B a few years ago in Vicksburg MS and enjoyed the experience so much we have been to serveral since. This year they were all different and had a favorite part of each.

The first one was Lobos Lodge in Carmel and was the least personal but we had a Beauty Salon next to us! It is in the background! I found that very interesting. They delivered a breakfast tray to the door at the hour requested ~ that was very nice and although a "light" meal it was always good. We were in a good location and could walk to everything. We met a couple in Santa Fe who had stayed there years earlier!

HOME

It was an awesome trip and we were really glad we took 2 weeks but are glad to be home. I will miss housekeeping ~ we went out for breakfast this morning and no one cleaned while we were gone! Saturday morning we left right after a breakfast of blueberry bread pudding that was best ever. She is putting together a cookbook and can't wait to try and recreate.

We left at 9:02 MST and got home at 10:15 CST. It was a long drive but we relived the previous 2 weeks. We brought home a lot of projects from Santa Fe. Tile for the kitchen, trees for the yard and other things to find places for. The photo above is shopping on the Governors Palace in Santa Fe. And our truck before we left. Now I have to go do laundry!!

Friday morning continue

We just finished a fantastic breakfast and shared the table with the folks from Texas. We exchanged address's and email to keep in touch! It has been a fantastic visit here. Yesterday we explored downtown and the Plaza, eaten at some great places and done a lot of shopping! Today we are doing a lot of the same and take in some museums.

This is view of our place last night. It has been good!