Merry Christmas!

We left for our grandparents Monday morning. It started snowing as we were going through Virginia, but it was just lightly snowing and the roads weren't slippery. 

light snow during the trip

 Nate got a hold of my camera and took some goofy pics of himself. =D

 Although it hadn't been snowing up there before, we seemed to carry the snow with us to our destination. It barely covered the ground that evening, but Daniel and Andrew (our cousin) wanted to build a snowman anyway.

a rather small snowman =D

Grandma' Christmas lights

Andrew being cute

Bethany thought Pap needed some extra hair =D

 On Christmas morning we had a late breakfast then, after clean-up, gathered in the living room for the Christmas story.

Pap reading the Christmas story

We then sang a couple Christmas songs with Nate accompanying on the guitar...

... and proceeded to open our gifts.

 Lunch/supper was absolutely delicious! We had turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, corn, stuffing, gravy, homemade bread, and red beets. (I think that's it... =D)

from right to left: Pap, Daniel, Nate, Aunt Jane, Uncle Time, Dad, Mom, Gram, and Bethany (Andrew was napping, and I'm taking the picture.

And had a good many pies including: cherry, blueberry, pumpkin, maple nut, and lemon meringue. And yes, they were scrumptious!!

Aunt Jane dishing up some pie for Dad

 After lunch Dad, Pap, Nate, Uncle Tim, and I went out to shoot guns, which we do every year (Bethany shoots sometimes too, but she didn't care to this time. Daniel likes to shoot the 22 pistol sometimes, but is afraid of the noise of bigger guns. Got to cure that boy if he ever wants to hunt! =D). We can't shoot much at our house, so we often bring our guns up here to shoot.

While Christmas is a fun time to get together with family and exchange gifts, let us not forget the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ!