Christmas Eve & Christmas

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On Christmas Eve we open a few presents like our annual Christmas jammies and some games...then we play games! Here is Ashlyn, Braden and Dalton and Ashlyn's dog Riley...

Christian and his girlfriend Madeline...

Me and Nick...

Ozzy...

Riley...

Christmas Eve dinner...pretty casual, just soup and sandwiches...This year I tried a Taco Soup that Ashlyn had at one of her friend's houses and loved it...it was pretty good...a keeper!

Ashlyn got very competitive playing Jenga ;)

Christmas morning...before the mess!

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas/Holiday!

Linking up with Mersad's Through My Lens

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 111

City Market Building . Roanoke . 1922

1) I'm going to rant for a bit...I had to get the historical significance of this fine old building from Wikipedia ...you can see the building's website HERE and while the site is pretty modern it lacks any detail about the building's history, which I for one, and I know many of you find the most important...at least dedicate a page to the building's history am I right? Ok, so, rant off!

2) Ahhhh done with my Christmas shopping! Yippee! Have to go food shopping tomorrow but I can happily say everything is wrapped and under the tree now!

3) Nick has been off this week...It has been nice having him home but also difficult to get things done!

4) Do you feel like it is Christmas already? I don't!

5) If you could have Santa bring you anything at all, what would it be? I think I would pick a family trip to Quebec. I have so many ancestral things to see there and would love to share that with all 6 of us! You hear me Santa? ;)

Ok that is my 5 for the week! I hope you will join in! Post 5 randoms, link back and visit others! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!!

More Christmas Trees @ The Hotel Roanoke

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Last week I showed you a few of the trees around the hotel, here's a few more:

The North Pole Post Office

A tree reflecting in the mirror...don't you just love that mirror?!

This space always gets a big display! One year it was a Polar Express theme, which I showed you HERE and another time was a big gingerbread house, which I know I have pictures of somewhere but guess I never posted it...anyways, this year was a scene from Finding Dory...did you see that movie? I thought it was hilarious! Back on topic, isn't this great?! So much detail! I think that little girl wants to climb right in!

This tree is in the main lobby and everyone likes to come and have their pictures taken here. We've got a few of our own too!

Linking up with Mersad's Through My Lens

6 days till Christmas!

The Christmas Tree @ Hotel Roanoke

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Hotel Roanoke . Downtown Roanoke

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This week I am joining Michelle for her Thankful Thursday linkup...

I am thankful for online shopping & free shipping, especially this time of year! I do about 95% of my Christmas shopping online...so much easier don't you think?! Are you done with your Christmas list yet? I am almost!

Bedford's Young Artists

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I love that many of the shop windows in Bedford featured all this sweet Christmas artwork from the local elementary school.

I'll be taking a blogging break for the rest of the week so have a Merry Christmas!!

Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 24 - All About Christmas

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Fincastle

My Willy Nilly's:

1) One of my favorite Christmas songs is Away in a Manger:



2) One of my favorite Christmas movies is Love Actually ...although I can watch it any time of year.

3) One of my favorite Christmas toys I received as a kid was a Light Bright.



4) One of my favorite Christmas reads is Skipping Christmas ...I also love the movie Christmas With The Kranks which was based on the book Skipping Christmas.

5) Now let me take you back to Christmas 1969:

C'est moi...I was 3 years old. That thing in my hand is a yummy popcorn ball. My mom and grandma made them every Christmas. I loved them! They would color them red and green too! That's my mom and dad in the background. Look at my mom's hair! She had it done once a week. I always thought it looked like a party cake the way it was so high and so many layers of things done in there lol...sometimes she'd have little braids that went around...I have no idea how she slept like that!

Welp, that's it for this week. Now it's your turn!