Merry Christmas to All

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!






It was a Batman Christmas at the Tanners house!

A nasty virus

I hope that 'bug' had fun wreaking havoc on the family. Days after we were all together for Thanksgiving, everyone in the Tanner family came down with varying degrees of a cold virus. For me, it started out with a major sore throat, of which I have had for a total of 12 days now!! It's like a thousand tiny razor blades every time I swallow. (I know what you're thinking - it's probably strep... nope! The strep test was negative).

Of all the lovely symptoms I had, (congestion, coughing, headaches, fatigue, etc), the absolute worst was the fact that I completely lost my voice for an entire week!! Do you know how annoying and frustrating it is trying to communicate when you don't have a voice?!?! Especially when you are the mom to a 3-year old! (It's really hard to yell when nothing comes out!)

So, even though the strep test was negative, the doc still wrote me a script for an antibiotic. But after seven days, I still wasn't getting any better, which only proves that it was, in fact, a virus.

But there is good news - I think I am finally on the mend. My voice is starting to come back, thankfully. Greg has been congested and coughing as well. Being sick sucks... and now I'm so far behind ... Christmas is only 2 weeks away! Aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!

Thanksgiving Pics - Part 2

After Chattanooga, we headed to North Carolina. We were staying in a cabin a few miles from Joy's house in Bakersville. I'll spare you the gory details of our travels there, but it involves dark, windy roads and a carsick 3-year old. Not fun.

The cabin was gorgeous...

But it was SUPER cold! There was still snow on the mountains...

Luke has seen snow before, but never enough to throw snowballs...

...learning some bad things from Grampa....

... probably shouldn't throw snowballs at Gramma...

now that's a cheeseball ...

But check out that view!!!

Too bad we didn't bring our chainsaw to take a Christmas tree home with us...

Now that's what I call frame-worthy...

Enjoying apple crumble with Aunt Joy...

He loves Joy's dog, Amber, whom he used to call "Hamber" and also "Amburger".

Thanksgiving Pics - Part 1

Over the course of the Thanksgiving weekend, I took 200+ pictures. Not all were blog-worthy, (lucky for you), so I will post just my favorites here:

First, we went to Chattanooga to have lunch with my family.

That baby is Charley, my cousin Whitney and Jeff's baby. So I guess that would make Luke and Charley 2nd cousins ... ?? I don't really know how all that works. But he loved Charley!!

That's Aunt Martha holding Charley...

And Cousin Gregg holding Charley...

And Mimi holding Charley .... (I sense a theme here...)

There's Whitney and Jeff ... (Charley's Mommy and Daddy)...

Where's Luke?

He's chilling out with Aunt Nancy on the couch...

And now let me introduce Bella ... (a Great Dane)

This is Luke running from Bella...

Luke pretended like he was scared of Bella ... but he liked her so much he even shared Woofie with her...

This is Bella's Mommy and Daddy ... (my cousin Drew and Dianna)...

Group Photo...


And the whole 'fandamly'! :)