Brother John came over last night to see Mom while she was in town and eat his first meal with us being back in Dallas! John, we loved your guitar pickin’ and singin’ – thanks for the title of this post!

I wanted a picture of us hanging our ‘NOEL’ ornament for the first time, but Mike just wanted to make fun! I guess I am a little cheesy every now and then, oh well!!!

Michele gave us a new Christmas tradition: The Pickle Ornament! How it works is someone (Mom this year) hides the pickle ornament in the tree. Whoever finds it, wins! We decided to wait until Dec. 1 to start looking for the pickle… we are going to keep rehiding it until Christmas.