Christmas Holidays

Duncan and Amy's decorations

Christmas Eve Eve's breakfast with Amy's family plus a few gifts:
Duncan got Amy shark slippers and Linda and Jim got Shelby a sweater

The new Smiths; Shelby has a new toy; playing a Dungeons and Dragons game.

All the Smiths and Lilly & David's Christmas tree with all the presents.

Various festivities including being couch potatoes, drinking out of a keg, and playing sports on the Xbox Kinect (below)

Of course, we did a few more things like gather around the dinner table for many meals, attend Christmas mass and Lilly and Amy did four rounds of zumba.

Amy's family

Happy Holidays!

Scottish Highlands Games

Sunday, October 21 : The 42nd Annual Scottish Highlands Games, Stone Mountain, Georgia

A Fair Date

Friday night date to the Cumming Fair, Forsyth Country, Georgia

Date: October 12, 2012

Reason for going: quality time

Real reason for going: fair food

Favorite fair food: turkey legs and funnel cakes

Favorite memory of the night: other than the quality time and food, that I shot a crossbow a bit better than my husband (to be fair, I was an archer a long time ago; we still did not walk away with a giant banana with dreads and rosta decoration)

Favorite ride: ferris wheel -- only ride worth waiting in line for

Smith Cabin Weekend

This past weekend, David, Lilly, Jaclynn, Josh, Duncan, and I all got together in the north Georgia mountains for a lovely cabin weekend and then spent some time in the alpine inspire town of Helen for some Oktoberfest merriment.  Duncan's good friend and groomsmen, Andrew, joined us Saturday.

"Photobooth"

The photobooth pictures are now available on our Shutterfly Share Site for viewing, for downloading to your computer, or for ordering prints through Shutterfly.

Here are just a few of the great pictures:

The Dress

The Reception

Details

Bottom: a Bridesmaid bouquet

Top picture: the crocheted tablecloth was a Christmas gift to me by Duncan's late Nonna.  I wanted to include it in the wedding even before we heard the news.

Each table had a different name: there were four "Georgia" tables in which the names were selected by Amy and there were four "Zimbabwe" tables in which the names were selected by Duncan.  The Georgia tables: Stone Mountain, Radium Springs, Okefenokee Swamp, and Providence Canyon.  The Zimbabwe tables: Victoria Falls, Nyanga, Mana Pools, and Lake Kariba.