Christmas Celebration Begins!

The second annual CRECHE collection from all over the world.

No way could I record the beauty of this event except to describe it as a spiritual treat with the lights, nativities, music, songs, non-members attendance (in awe) and how much we enjoyed it all. John was the greeter both nights and he loved it!

My two pictures are totally not indicative of the room full,

more like a mini-sampling.

The public was invited... they came... and the local newspaper called asking about it as we had placed an ad in the paper inviting folks to come share. It seems that their next years theme in a local publication is Nativity Scenes and they asked to come out and see our collection. They stayed over an hour, are excited about the prospects of next year (and you KNOW we are too).

Across the hall in RS room we served many different homemade cookies and hot spice cider!!

My personal favorite nativity!

Greeter and Wife ;)

We were surprised by several childhood friends of mine that came, some co-workers of John's brother Tom, and best of all.... Karen and Sky came with an entourage from New Growth Baptist, about 17 total in their group! We promised to attend their Christmas Program next week and bring the Warren's! (Oregon Sr Missionaries)

Bell Ringer's

Yes we DID!!!

In the southern afternoon sunshine in front of the SuperWalmart!

Thanksgiving on Sunday!

The three oldest cousins on the Dekle side of our bunch~

Anna, Brenda and Janice

Oldest male, Uncle James (center, Janice's Daddy)), Uncle Waymon on the left and Anna's husband David on the right. Anna and David are in Atlanta now, close to their daughter Corby. Anna's mother, my aunt Lucille, lives with them and has not been down for a visit in a few years so we were totally happy to get together with them this beautiful Sunday afternoon.

Mamoo, Anna, Janice and Aunt Lucille

The entire crowd! Thanks to John for taking to the pic.

Honeygail, Uncle Waymon, Uncle James, Cousin in law ;) David, Mamoo, Cousin Anna, Cousin Janice, Aunt Carolyn and Aunt Lucille.

WHAT A BLESSED DAY!!!

We are grateful for this HUGE Thanksgiving over a four day period!

Thanksgiving with Sky!

What a GREAT day I had with Sky!
We had original intentions for the day that kept changing due to factors beyond our control (Like a young church member that lost his life in service to our country) SOOOooo... what we DID do was go shopping for funeral potato ingredients, came home and baked, took off just in the nic of time to make the new Harry Potter Movie, saw the motorcycle funeral escort complete with flags... about 50 total.. then rushed to the church to help set up to feed the family members after the funeral.

We had to wait at least 10 minutes before the theatre opened their doors, so in keeping with our desire to have FUN, we ran down to Hallmark and picked out (ON SALE) Vera Bradley bags.
Sky picked first and went straight to the black patterned.... which she held in one had while she searched the rest of the bin of bags.
To my great delight, her final selection was the one you see her holding here, and I snatched up her first choice as it was my only choice! (I didn't tell her that until she tossed it back in the bin)

After we delivered our funeral potatos, we took off to the Billiard Academy and ordered 15 world famous *Pool Room Hot Dogs*, took them to Mamoo's and served with our second batch of funeral potatos (I just got the recipe from Utah ;), watched a movie and visited a while.

Sky is a great cook, we got the job done and still had time for the rest of the days activities. On the way home, we passed a huge Christmas Light show... so we took that in too!!
GREAT DAY!!

Thanksgiving Surprise!

My Granddaughter Lacey!

She is almost 12 now and we look forward to the day we can meet her. It will come!

She is Sky and Carter's sister. I call these surprise pics gifts from God!!

Ranes Thanksgiving!

YUMMMMM~~

The Rowe Children and families!

Check out that new baby... is that Braydon holding her?

Terri's brand new baby girl!

It looks like they are the same height now!

Ranes Famous Pumpkin Pie.... from hand carved Halloween Pumpkins!

I sure would like to try it one day!

One Day!!

Thanksgiving 2010

My Love Children~

Addison, age 8

Carter, age 4

The Marty Paris Family

Sometimes pictures are so good that there are no words!

These are all incredibly beautiful, maybe because I see their spirits too!

G'Ma Had Dark Hair!

This is for all of my G'Babies who never knew I had dark hair!

Maybe this is the most glamorous pic I have, thanks Ranes!

Old South Day 2010

Our current senior missionaries !

(The Warren's from Oregon)

I say *current* because we have been through a few sets now, and all are just awesome!

The Warren's enjoyed this day trip to the little town of Ochlocknee Georgia, where they still have a cane grinding mill to make good ole Georgia Cane Syrup! The most significant change this year was that they are actually using gas engines to power the cane squeezers, instead of mule power. Once the juice is squeezed out of the sugar cane it is boiled down in huge cast iron pots to the syrup stage, then bottled. It was delicious!

Also there were many arts and crafts vendors and a parade, but I think we all enjoyed the cotton around the old house better than we could have the inflatable jumping houses.

Scholar's Academy~

Not sure but looks all teenagery ;)

This appears to be the entrance to DISNEYWORLD!!

In honor of Breast Cancer Cure Week!

Can you find our Sky?

(hint, she is the beautiful blonde)

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