Nashville's White Christmas, part 2

Annie and George, with help from Martha, check out the Nutcracker.

Annie gets her "Fancy Nancy" doll from us!

Paul photo-bombs me.

Nashville's White Christmas, part 1

Christmas in Laurel!

...it's snowin' in the pines... no, that would come later.

Randy with the awesome new LSU cornhole game. What do you get the man who has everything?

Mom with her wicker-stuff (like this, but nicer!)... that matches nicely with her Spode Fleur-de-Lis.

Over it.

This was in the box:

Paul's got other pictures of this moment - he thinks it'd make a good animation.

Dreaming of sugar plums...

And the best gift of all - time with my Grandfather :)

'zat you, Santa Claus?

Elle's Baptism

Our god-daughter was baptized at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Nashville and it was such a wonderful service. It will be a blessing to watch her grow and mature in grace and try to help her on that journey - or at least try not to impede her on that journey... we're still new to this!

There was a really cute picture of Elle and I at brunch (here, if you're interested) - but I can't remember where it was or if it was deleted or what! Will update if found - will cry if not :(

edit: FOUND!

Relatives, Old and New

Many of you know of Danya's affinity for genealogy - something that Paul and I, to a lesser extent, share with her. She does all the "real work" while we just get to traipse around cemeteries looking for relatives, cool or old headstones or pretty flora and fauna.

Unfortunately, a distant cousin passed away in Virginia, who was originally from Guthrie, KY. Another cousin, close to the deceased, came for the funeral bearing tons of "stuff" pertinent to the family - some pictures, family Bibles, etc. - and tons of "stuff" not (like car deeds from the 1950s).

We had a great time with them, and hope they'll visit again under happier circumstances.

Paul, Danya, Bill, and Bill and Kathy Voegli, cousins from Atlanta.

Below are several headstones from our family - several Northingtons, which you can imagine are very important for many reasons :) And, of course, Snadons. Paul may be able to chime in and edit to clarify the exact position of these Northingtons on our family tree. I can't believe we don't have a picture of Paul Northington's, though! For shame. I am really disappointed. Maybe a trip to Clarksville in the spring?

This cemetery is in Clarksville, TN, the Greenwood Cemetery, and we were there on the day of the SEC Championship. Since that was, um, quite some time ago, you know that Auburn killed South Carolina, and it couldn't've happened to a nicer guy. /sarcasm

Big Blog Update Coming Soon!

...a good thing, since I haven't updated since December 7 :)

It's a good night, though. This is back on TV (for the last season!), and Paul's cooking this, and there's no work tomorrow - and tomorrow night, I'm going here with some friends, and can pick from this menu for restaurant week. Input? :)

Anyway, much has happened in the past month! Be on the lookout!

P.S. - Just because we neglected Advent III (Gaudete!) (and GOW-DAY-TAY thick-accent sing along here!) and Advent IV, and Christmas - doesn't mean they didn't happen. Again, the forms found here proved awesome for our devotions, and we made special use of the information here and here for the O Antiphons. So definitely make it a point to use these resources next year!