Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas!

Or as Dad would put it, "Have a Darleen Holly Christmas" Speaking of which, we were glad Kevin and Darleen came over for our traditional Christmas Eve family time.

doesn't Benji make a good little Joseph?

Our little shepherd with his "sheep"

Joleen, on special request, was anointed and given a special blessing by Dad.

Bryce fell asleep cuddled next to Stephen, his new-found buddy

And here's Kevin with his precious stuff

Hey Cowboy!

And Kevin's real precious(es) (I think Baby is almost here!!!)

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

Now that's the way to do it, work it off while you put it on! yeah!

And Christmas day at K&D's...

We hope you had a Jolly Christmas, too!

a-caroling we go...

here we are in all our "getup." Stephen Easley came over and helped us out. We really needed another tenor in there...

Darleen invited the younger ones over for a baking day

Pulling the taffy

finished!!

And...that evening we had a Christmas recital featuring our three little musicians

I guess Junior D volunteered to be Byron's pillow

Doing a duet...Colleen's getting very good (better than me, I think...)

Darleen with her students

We went to a Christmas production in Knoxville called the "Living Christmas Tree"

They even had camels for the wise Men

This was supposed to be in Heaven. For those of you who are familiar with ATI, this is where they had the conferences in the old days.

And...that's it. As you can see, we been up to lots of stuff.

Thanksgiving and snow

The Indiana Waltmans came down to celebrate Thanksgiving with us this year! Company of course means...skeet shooting!!!

Brandon

Uncle John

Watching the goings-on...

Bryce loved helping get the skeet out to give to the person launching them.

Ian

shooting Kevin's rifles (Kevin did come with us, just I didn't get any pictures before he left)

Colleen, Allison, and Lauren

We thought this would make an interesting picture...
(this is someone's finger sticking through a hole in the board, just in case you're wondering : )

Yes, we Waltmans are a wild bunch. (but isn't that the best kind??)

The first week of December brought snow with it, though it only lasted a couple days. Jo and Byron hiked up to K&D's place and played around with the camera (and the snow).

The road going up there

"I'm just a poor wayfarin' stranger..."

a branch in the snow

Our hardworking, handy fellow

this was supposed to be a "don't mess with texas" face, or something...?

Mussolini (K&D's male goat,I think the name was Kevin's Idea) and Jericho "duddy"

Boot tracks

Holly

coming soon: Christmas pictures

house remodeling--before pictures

Here's some pictures of the house. We got it for about the value of the land (2+ acres). Dad and Mom have always enjoyed buying fix-up houses then eventually selling for a profit, we've done that with every place we ever got as far as I know. This one was in pretty good condition to start with. These pictures are before we had much done.

The front room

this looks like it's supposed to be a bunk house or something

The Kitchen

a back room

view from the porch

side of the house

back of tool shed/animal shelter

Byron working on roofing

Brandon

Well, that's all for now...

The Weston Clan!

The Westons came for a visit all the way out from the great state of California! ;-)
(It was great fun and we had a real blast!)

We went to Chattanooga one day and went up to lookout mountain near the Chickamauga battlefield, and on a boat down the Little Tennessee River...

on the boat


Of Course, when Darleen has the Camera there has to be some pictures of Kevin and her!


Later on in the week, we went to the lake with the Ceausu family...and their boat :-)

Benji

Stephen

I really like this one of Emily

These two of Dad are my favorites...the one below is so Dad, if you know him, this is his "cool look!" (I really like it...)

(oh, and by the way, me, Jo, took these...just thought you'd like to know. Oh, am I bragging again? or maybe not :)


Emily took this evening one

Bryce was filling up the water bottle and pouring it on Colleen, I think...Emily took this one, too.

All the Westons

Just a sidenote: If you ever need entertainment, just look at Benji in a group shot :-)

Wow! A group shot with me in it!!!! That is amazing, I always have a way of keeping out of the pictures with "everyone" in em! :-)

Well, that's all for a long time folks!! God bless you today!