Christmas Update

We started out the holiday season with a 2 week trip to Arkansas. We had so much fun seeing family and friends. Reagan told his co-workers we stayed too long because by the second week I was driving around NWA looking for places to live :).

Fayetteville Square (and Christmas card photo)

Byron decorating our little tree. We didn't put up a big one this year for 2 reasons - the van was too full from Thanksgiving to bring it back from storage and we didn't want to keep getting on to Carter for messing with it. Byron had fun decorating it, this Thomas ornament is his ornament from last year and is his favorite. He even took it to school in the "share bucket" to show all of his friends.
Byron and his gingerbread house.

We had breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus at Southside Works, a neat area near downtown Pittsburgh with shops and restaurants. Byron's eyes are closed because he thinks if he can't see Santa, then Santa can't see him. He is terrified of him! Carter doesn't mind him at all. After breakfast we met up with some friends and went to see Tangled at the movie theater. The boys did great, Byron loved it and Carter fell asleep in the middle!

Since we didn't get to go back "home" for Christmas we decided to go to a Bed & Breakfast about 90 miles from Pittsburgh called Bedford Springs. It was beautiful! We had a great time. We swam, I spent the day at the spa, we had cookies with Mrs. Claus, went a Christmas Eve service at a Methodist Church in downtown Bedford, and had a huge Christmas feast.

On the way to Bedford we took a little detour through Shanksville, PA. Shanksville is where flight 93 crashed on 9/11 and is believed to be where the War on Terrorism began since the passengers of that flight fought back against the terrorists on board. They are building a memorial there, but right now all you can see is a temporary building with artifacts and there is a flag in the middle of the field where the plan crashed. The wreaths are in rememberance of the 43 Americans that lost their lives that day.


Bedford Springs