MSU highlights, candle lights, stage lights, and Christmas lights!

Well, last weekend we went home for Thanksgiving...it was the first time we had both been home since we've been married. We also celebrated my little brother's 23rd b'day while we were there. We both enjoyed seeing friends and family while we were home and WATCHING MSU BEAT OLE MISS IN THE EGG BOWL!!! I am so glad they beat Ole Miss!

Here's little Rob blowing out his candles...

When we got back to Nashville, we set up our Christmas tree. This was the first time in probably three or four years I have been able to have a Christmas tree because I wasn't moving during the holidays. We can't fit my Christmas tree in our living room here (we have way too much furniture), so we used John's 4 1/2-ft tree. We ended up putting it on top of one of our end tables. I also forgot my ornaments in Columbus as well, so we bought ornaments last-minute to use for this year. It just wasn't worth the 5-hour drive or risking breaking them in the mail to get them here. We'll survive somehow... :)

Sorry, no make up for me in this pic! :)

Last night, we went to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (the TPAC) to see Irving Berlin's A White Christmas. It was a really good show. I have always told John that I would like to have a white Christmas one year, so I guess I got it this year! Hahaha! At the end of the show, it "snowed" on the audience with soap suds that closely resembled snow flurries which was really neat since it almost never snows here in the South. It may be as close to snow as we get for this year!



Tonight we went with a couple of friends of ours and saw the Christmas decorations at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. All I have to say about that is WOW... I don't think I have ever seen so many Christmas lights in my life. By the way, Christmas lights (white lights) are one of my most favorite parts about Christmas! Here are some pics from our visit below...and, really, these pictures don't do the hotel justice...

Here are some pictures from outside the Gaylord Opryland Hotel...

We went on the Delta Riverboat while we were there. It sails along throughout the hotel - the river is about a quarter of a mile long and contains more than 450,000 gallons of water from all over the world. Here is a picture of the "dock" where you get on/off and a picture of us in the boat.

Here are our friends we went with, Daniel and Andrea...

Here are some random pictures of decorations throughout the hotel. Like I said earlier, the pictures are nothing compared to the real thing.... These are just a few of the ones we took while we were there.

We hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and that everyone is doing well!