Happy Music Monday - Christmas: The Christmas Song

One last song, and the Christmas season wouldn't be complete without the Nat King Cole classic.

Happy Music Monday - Christmas: O Come All Ye Faithful

The amazing talent and signature sound of Celtic Woman.
"Sing, choirs of angels..." this is how it must really sound!

Happy Music Monday - Christmas: O Holy Night

Acapella version of one of my very favorite Christmas carols by one of my very favorite country music artists, Martina McBride

Happy Music Monday - Christmas: Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child

I dare you to watch this and not dance. And clap. I actually have the Mariah Carey version on my iPod and LOVE LOVE LOVE it, and listen to it every day during the Christmas season. Mariah's version is fabulous, but Kelly and Fantasia give her a run for her money!

Flashback Friday - the most wonderful time of the year

I realize I didn't have a Random Thought post on Wednesday, but here it is anyway -- what's with all the glitter on Christmas decorations? Seriously, do we NEED all that?? Even if you don't buy any of it, you can't even walk thru a Walgreens without it sticking to you. I'll be vacuuming and dusting that stuff up until the next Hokie football season.

Speaking of Hokie football - once AGAIN, headed to the ACC Championship! And yeah, we were 0-2 with a loss to Div I-AA JMU, but who's counting?

Team Stilwell

Flashing back to the previous week, let me just say that we had a FABULOUS Thanksgiving weekend. We started the day with the Drumstick Dash 5K to benefit the Roanoke Rescue Mission. This was their highest turnout - 11,500 runners and walkers! And I'm proud to report that Susan Lower and I ran all but 1/2 mile, which is pretty remarkable considering neither of us are runners.

My inlaws fixed a fabulous dinner for us that afternoon and even invited my parents to come! My mother-in-law is a great cook so we left their house STUFFED, and the eat-a-thon continued throughout the weekend with my tons-of-fun Rinehart family:

Friday night - big turkey dinner

70+ for dinner this year.
It was an off-year (most of the cousins didn't come)

SO much good food and SO much to catch up on!

The seasoned physical therapist (Gina)
advises the potential PT (Sarah)

Heated round of Speed Scrabble
(BTW notice all the Hokie-wear)

 

My brother-in-law Andy.
Our family's version of "Man vs Food"

Hidden Objects - it's hard not to get addicted to it!

Mexican Train Dominoes
The sisters don't like the way their big brother is playing

My beautiful cousins -
we discovered the cutie on the right shares a birthday with me!

We took Sarah back to JMU on Sunday, which means we spent a fair amount of time on I-81, which is where you DON'T want to be on a holiday weekend. But the kids are back and getting ready for exams, and I've got the house decorated and ready for them to come home. In less than 2 weeks. Not that I'm counting or anything.