Some Highlights of

• We celebrated 13 wonderful years of marriage. It is still amazing to be married to my very best friend that I am madly in love with.
• I visited my beautiful daughter Casie and her husband John, my Dad and stepmom
  Carolyn, little brother Aaron and his beautiful wife Kristen, my sister Debby
  and my nieces Rachel and Adriana and my brand new niece Samadhi and had a
  wonderful time.
• We bought a 2011 CRV-(Titanium Urban Metallic)
• We went to Chicago went to museums, parks, trolley rides, boat rides, tours, deep dish pizza, hot dogs, Second City, etc.
• We visited the Biltmore with Jeff's parents Sue and Gene and had a wonderful weekend full of touring, shopping, eating good food and having a wonderful stay at a bed and breakfast in Asheville, NC.
• I got lots of Payton hugs and kisses!

Here We Go

Okay, so that is it for 2011....we are ready to get this party started....Watch out 2012, the best is yet to come!

Biltmore

Here it is.  A beautiful place indeed.  I think this is a Christmas tree, although it didn't seem to be decorated.  The whole place was way too crowded and we ended up in long hallways with closed doors for long periods of time until we got to a room on display.  I think they changed the routes through the house to accomodate two lines at once, so it was very fragmented.  We saw enough to see how very beautiful a place it is. 

Breakfast

Here is the breakfast part of B & B

Second landing

Here is a picture showing the beautiful staircase

Bear Tree

Here is the Christmas tree on the landing outside our room

Bed

And here is the bed part.  It was a georgeous old mansion, with beautiful antiques but with modern amenities.  All except for Jeff's adventure in taking a shower in a claw foot tub where the shower head hit somewhere  below his chin we loved it

Woodwork

Just a picture showing the beautiful woodwork all throughout the Inn

Gene

Here is Gene outside their room

Bed and Breakfast

Here is the outside of the Cedar Crest Inn in Asheville

SMOKEY, RAINY MOUNTAINS

We are almost to North Carolina.  Can't wait to get there. Did I mention I am about tired of this rain?

Stockings hung by the chimney with care:)

In hopes that you know who will come:)

Okay...okay so there are only two of us this year. We just want to be ready..you never know when we might need 8 stockings:)

Christmas Alpaca

We are dubbing these little guys our Christmas mascot of 2011

Berry Christmas

This is turning out to be a very berry christmas for our holly bushes.

Arthur Christmas

We actually went to see Arthur Christmas. It was really cute and we enjoyed it. It wasn't near as cheesy as Jeff was afraid it might be.

Thanksaversary

A dozen roses and an angry bird plushy for our anniversary.  

Thirteen Fantastic Years

My Sweetie went out early this morning on our Thanksaversary and got me a Venti NF Latte, a Pumpkin Scone (my favorite) and a Bearista!! I am truly spoiled rotten. This was after we already got our anniversary present and a dozen red roses and a plushy angry bird. There is only so much spoiling one can take before they turn rotten. I think I am there...and to top it off, I get to wake up every day next to the love of my life...lucky lucky girl.

Casie, Adriana, Rachel, Debby, Mari, and Dad's ear

Cousin Rachel, Adriana and Samadhi

Aunt Debby with Samadhi

Samadhi with Grandma and Grandpa

Last one

One last pic

Another pic from skyrim

Skyrim

This game has the most amazing graphics and effects!!! You should see the horse looking around an flicking his tail.  WOW!!!

Maple bacon bar -VOO DOO DONUTS

Casie and a voodoo donut

More cuteness

My Favorite Superman of all!

Cryptographer

Payton draws the most imaginatve maps, complete with bubbly mud, rainbows, mountains and Grandma's house.

Game junkies

Love this time of year!

My BFEE

This is like the best medicine ever:) What a doll and such a good boy! He said you are my Best Friend Ever Ever....what a cutie pie!

Immigration Reform

Game Boy Bonding

Love this picture...good job Amanda

Super hero

Who is the cutest super hero of all???

Fantasy football

Who is number one?  That would be me!  Have to post quick before next week!

Calibre

Great digital library application that stores all your books in Mobi

The Duel

I do believe this was the best HP movie yet. I was looking forward to seeing it but didn't have overly high expectations. They hit it out of the park with bases loaded. Loved it!!

Horrible bosses

Hilarious!

The finale

Yes, we have our tickets to the IMAX 3D showing Saturday, July 16.  I know, we are waiting until day 2:(

A Clue!

When Jeff and I finish painting a room, we always put a paw print in the corner as a "signature". Payton saw this when visiting and said "a clue!!" (from blues clues of course)

What a good boy!!!

And such a doll!

Forgot to post

When we got back from Chicago.  You know you're in Nashville when there is live music at the airport bars.

Budweiser Clydesdale

He thinks the same about this weather as I do:)

Sisters

Had some really funny parts...not as funny as the first and more risque`

Soaking up some rays

My baby boy and his baby boy:)

A boy and his shades and the beach:)

Cutest little boy ever!

Wrigley

The Wrigley Building, built in two parts to make room for an elevated train that used to go between the two parts.