This is my second time writing this because Blogger quit on me and didn't save the first draft but saved the pictures. So sorry if this is short, but I am a little frustrated having to write it over again.
Before leaving, we left sweet Henry boy in Memphis for our friends to check on him and spend some quality time with him. He did great until day 9 when he kinda went psycho and chewed our living room. Needless to say, he was happy when we arrived home.
Christmas Eve was spent having a brunch with my dad's side of the family and then the PLAN was to go to Opryland to see the lights with the other side of the family. Well, after a yummy meal at Logan's, we decided it would be more fun to go home and play boardgames in our PJ's.
Oh, Buzzerwizzer. This was the game we played which brought some heated arguments to the Tucker household.
Then this started happening so we stopped playing and looked outside to see....snow!
It made Randy and I so happy that we danced (in the kitchen)!
Amba and I excited about the SNOW!!!!!
Kitty prints in freshly fallen snow.
Christmas morning. My favorite part of Christmas morning was that Randy and I woke up early to have some reading time and discussion on the importance of Christmas before all the craziness began.
So much fun on Christmas morning...the feast, the family, the presents, the snow :)
Finally sitting down to eat at the KIDS TABLE!! The crowns are from poppers we all got at our place setting. A tradition from Scotland where my mom and her siblings grew up for seven years...I think it will be a new tradition at the Tucker home as well!
Randy taught everyone how to make crystal "sing" and the rest of our morning hummed.
Our feast included: pork tenderloin, country ham, bacon, sausage, biscuits, eggs, gravy, hashbrown casserole, fruit salad, cream cheese danish.
Present time! I got a new camera so be looking for clearer, better pictures in the future! Yay!
Randy made the comment that he would "politely decline any UT gifts" when asked what he wanted from his secret santa. Well, the whole family banned together and all got him something UT...ha! I think he learned his lesson.
The day after Christmas looked like this and although my dad and I PLANNED to run, we went...
...sledding instead!
Then it was off to see Lulu in the nursing home and wish her a merry Christmas by singing carols to her with our not so lovely voices. She loved it! It is always such a joy but a little sad to see my sweet Lulu in a nursing home like that.
To wrap up the days before and following Christmas...much of it was spent doing what you see below,
being lazy and warm!
Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and are having a great start to your New Year!
Posts to come include my new (used) car and our New Year.
The weathermen had been predicting it, but we all knows what that means. I was one happy lady to see that the snow DID come! And boy, was it pretty! 
Henry was anxious to get out in it...the rest of the story will be told in pictures.
Our monster of a tree looked so pretty laden with snow.
We supposedly got 4-5 inches. Not too bad!
My boys...this picture is now my desktop on my computer. Pretty cute, huh?
Randy threw a snow ball at Henry.
Walking down to play...
...and we found this sign on the Donlon's front porch. "Prepare for the snowball fight". No pictures of the snowballs because I had my new camera and I didn't want to mess it up.
All-time favorite picture of Henry the Ferocious in action.
Going home after a really long day of playing.
Warming up by the fire with hot chocolate and our stockings out to dry.
Of course, Randy just had to make this little snowman and then tell me to come out and see it. Only a Hartman would use that as a trick to get me with a snowball! (Actually, I'm pretty sure my dad would have done the same thing to my mom, so maybe it isn't just a Hartman thing.)
