Thursday, December 13, 2007

The BIG 3 - 0!

This year it was my turn to turn 30. Last year Shawn hit the milestone with a surprise birthday party at Laser Quest (laser tag for those out of town). For my birthday I decided I wanted to keep it fairly quite and simple, imagine that. We, Shawn, Marcy, Andrew and myself, went to the Black Bear Jamboree Dinner Show in Pigeon Forge. Shawn did surprise me with a beautiful Tinker Bell cake and Ben & Jerry's chocolate chunk mint ice cream. YUMMY! I will add a picture of that as soon as I can remember to do it. Now begins the countdown to Christmas! Our Christmas cards are in the mail and all our gifts have been wrapped and are ready to ship. Feels good to have all that done, now there are all the Christmas parties to plan and attend.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Thanksgiving travels.....

Folks have been waiting to hear how Thanksgiving was and what we were into. We spent Thanksgiving in Knoxville, with family and friends. It was a wonderful day, good food and great company! Thursday night, after stuffing ourselves, we took off for Nashville. We had a hotel reserved so we could do some Black Friday shopping at the Opry Outlet Mall. No, we were not up at 3:30 like a lot of people were, we got up around 6 or so and were at Bass Pro Shops by 7 am. We shopped for a good 6 to 8 hours straight before Shawn let us stop and eat. It was a successful shopping day and we were able to catch a movie, visit the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and have our feet up by 7 that evening. What a day! The next morning we were not so early to rise and shine. After a restful night we headed to The Hermitage on Saturday. It was a little chilly to be wondering around the estate of General Andrew Jackson but we did it anyways and enjoyed it all. In all the traveling we did growing up we never made it to The Hermitage. It is worth a trip and there is so much to learn about our history.

Now we begin planning our Christmas trip. We have decided to fly down to Florida and drive back. UT has landed in the Outback Bowl.....again....and we are not sure we will go this year. Which only means they will win.

A little follow up story to "Home Tweet Home". It did get purchased and the owner sent the office a nice 'thank you'. Our tree now resides in Alabama, kind of funny to think of it traveling that far. They owners love it and are happy to have it in their home. Another happy ending you could say.