A Mountaineer Christmas!

My grandparents live in Ripley, West Virginia and that is where we head every year for Christmas! Brent got to go with us last year and he went again this year. Next year will be our year to stay here in Nashville with his family...let the every other year holidays begin! My grandparents live on a couple acres and their place was covered with TONS of snow when we arrived last Thursday.

It was wonderful!! I always like a White Christmas! On Friday my Papa, Brent, and I went out to the back yard and had fun in the snow. My granny lent Brent and I her and my Papa's ski suits and we were ready to go! 

                                            I was in charge of making the bottom part...

                                                            It's coming together...

                                                    HAHA!! It was so much fun!


Here are some random pics that we took out in the yard:

                     this is standing down by the creek looking back up towards their house

                                              the creek was so pretty with all the snow 

                                                               * SNOW POSE # 1 *

                                                               * SNOW POSE #2 *

                                                              * SNOW POSE #3 *

Here are some action snowball shots that Brent took of me with our new Nikon Camera!

So on Christmas day...well starting on Christmas Eve @ 8pm...TBS plays a "Christmas Story" for 24 hours. I love that movie! I can sit and watch it over and over and over...i think we watched it twice before turning to something else! haha. My grandparents have so many things from their childhood that they have kept which I think is really cool...

Hey Ralphie, you want a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas right?? Well guess what?...

My Papa has the same exact one! He pulled it out and showed us while we were watching the movie! Cool, huh?!


My Aunt Lisa and cousin Rebekah got to WV on Christmas Day around 1pm. My other cousin, Daniel and his wife, Jennie went to her side for Christmas this year. My Uncle Tim and my Aunt Gayle couldn't come until this Wednesday so we didn't get to see them :(  After Christmas dinner we opened presents. We each pick a name of another relative so we don't buy for everyone except the kiddo's. I had my Uncle Tim's name = Dick's giftcard! He is a high school football coach so I know that will get him something that he wants!

 I made these for my grandparents. They're 2 huge frames filled with various pictures of our family!

                                                    It was A Wonderful Christmas!!