Harrison and I had a very packed Christmas holiday! Tuesday was our own personal little Christmas in Asheville. We finished Christmas shopping and dressed up for a fancy dinner at the Red Stag within the Grand Bohemian Hotel. Wednesday we headed to Newnan, GA to celebrate Christmas early with Aileen and our nephew (Pilot dad, Andrew, was at work). We had a wonderful time with them; they're getting so big! Thursday we headed to Auburn to spend a day and a half with the Williams/Whatley side of the family. We went out in Auburn Thursday night with many of Harrison's friends from highschool. Thursday we had brunch with Harrison's extended family, then later had people over to shoot hand guns! What else do you do on Christmas Eve in Alabama? I have to say, I'll choose my 20 gauge shotgun any day over a pistol, but we still had a blast.
-- For Christmas, Harrison's parents got him a "Webley" pistol: A British officer's pistol from WWI. He was beyond excited!
Christmas Eve night we took off from Auburn to Gadsden to visit the Cunningham side. Aileen's family didn't come this year, because the boys are getting big enough where they need to have Christmas at their own home. I was so excited to get to see the rest of the family: Mom, Dad, David, Nate, Kellye, and Paige (the newest edition)! Paige is almost two months old now and she's so perfect! We went to mass Christmas morning in the SNOW!!!! Snow in the mountains of NC is expected, but Gadsden is a different story! It was a beautiful white Christmas in Alabama. We opened presents, held Paige, and played fun family board games all night!
Sunday after mass, we had to head back to Asheville. The drive was fine until we hit some treacherous conditions in the mountains. There was about 8 inches of snow on the sides of the interstate, and the snow kept falling. We were confident in the AWD capabilites of our Subaru, but it was still scary! We finally got home to find out that one of our heating units broke for the second time this month! We could see our breath in the air of our bedroom! Thankfully, Aileen had given her heated mattress pad to us for Christmas. That helped us sleep comfortably until maintenance could arrive in the morning.
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