The Pearce Place

Family Christmas #2

The weekend before Christmas my mom's side of the family made it up to Nashville from Mississippi. It was great seeing them! My cousin, her husband, and kids got to come too. They had not been here before. Well, my cousin has but it has been a really long time and not since my parents or B and I moved here. Also, another cousin I only see once or so a year was able to join us from Kentucky. We did so many fun things and it was nice to catch up with everyone.

Grandparents

Opening their Great-Grandchild picture frame (see next post to get the details) and Loveless Cafe Strawberry jam and biscuit mix.

Opryland Hotel at Christmas!!!

Tatum, Mimi, Mom, and Erin

Adorable Tripp (Tatum's son)

The Cousins

Huge Christmas Tree

B and Me (17 Weeks)

We also went to see ICE. B and I have been twice before, but this year it was a different show and the theme was Charlie Brown. It was so cute! If you live near Nashville and you have kids (or even if you don't) this is a really fun thing to do at Christmas time. Everything you see is an ice sculpture.

The ICE slide (I took pics this year instead of sliding!)

Mom making her way down the ice.

In Snoopy's doghouse

I loved all of the cute characters!

"It's cooooold in here!"

The nativity scene they have at the end every year.

*Be sure and check out the other new posts below!*

Family Christmas #1

Two weeks ago we celebrated Christmas with my dad's side of the family. Most of them were able to come to Nashville for the weekend. We ate at the yummy Loveless Cafe, opened gifts, went to downtown Franklin to the Charles Dickens Festival, and went to Opry Mills and ate at the Aquarium restaurant. (This was not what we were going to Opryland to do, but it's where we ended up and that's a whole other story!) Overall, it was a very nice weekend with the family. It's always nice having them in Nashville to do fun Nashville things and just relax.

Loveless Cafe

Bring on the baby presents! My aunt and cousin gave us our baby's 1st Tennessee t-shirt. So cute! Of course if it's a boy the pink one will be returned, but they thought if it is a girl the pink is really cute! This was definitely Brantley's favorite gift (said with sarcasm). I was not surprised at all that this is what they gave us. This side of the family are huge Tennesse fans...the baby will be looking good on game days!

We got our grandparents a picture frame with our first ultrasound pic in it. The bottom says:

Great-Granchildren

Little people who take up your whole heart.

(at least that's as close as I can get without having one in my possession anymore)

Either way I loved these frames and was so excited I found them.

Downtown Franklin- Charles Dickens Christmas Festival

This was a really neat festival in my favorite place in Nashville. They have people dressed up as characters from A Christmas Carol walking around on Main St. and have so much deliciously smelling food, shops, and tents set up for people selling their own products. I want to remember this for next year. I will definitely go again!

Callie (cousin) and Me

The Aquarium

B, Bella, and Me (16 weeks)

*Don't miss the post below...it's new too!*

Christmas Decorations (Better Late Than Never)

How terrible is it that I'm FINALLY posting pics of my house decorated for Christmas...3 days after Christmas! Oh well. I was sooo busy the past few weeks (as you will see in my next few posts) that this was not on the top of the list. But I still wanted to share them with everyone. Enjoy!