Christmas 2021

We went to see Jon Crist at the orpheum.  He was really funny.

This is how Dallas leave the "activity scene" with all of the figures facing the baby Jesus....as it should be.

this is my favorite part of the singing Christmas tree....when the wise men bring the little boy Jesus gifts.  I cry every year.

The bellevue singing Christmas tree is a family tradition for us.

At our sunday school party, we brought gifts.  Ours were socks with the pastors picture on them.  Funny, the pastors father got the socks.

Our gift that I picked got stolen, it was a picture of our sunday school teachers, Renee and Fred Shackleford.  It would have looked great on the fireplace.

Christmas at Ellendale

Ellendale had a live nativity, it reminded me of being Mary and Annabeth being the baby Jesus.

Austin was like "Mutha, do we have to take a picture??"...even my sweet Annabeth has a smirk.

Getting ready to watch the Walton's Christmas - "I don't feel like a piss ant", said ElizabethWalton

Dwayne and his momma

Annabeth and Mawmaw Conlee

The shirt I wore on Christmas Eve night

Austin, Annabeth and Aunt Angela

How I felt having to come to work on Christmas Eve

Austin and his Mawmaw

Silent night, holy night

Ellendales Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Dwayne, Annabeth & Austin

 

Thanksgiving 2021

This is the famous Barbara Thorne pose, I had to find an original so you would all understand why we do it every year.

Papa and Dallas

Sarah's bunch

Janice and her sister Lorie.  It was our first holiday together without Porgy.

Daddy and Marilyn

Daddy and the Girls

Mawmaw Conlee with Dwayne and Angela

We missed Austin

the conlee girls....I guess I was taking the picture

 

Orange Beach - Fall 2021

This was suppose to be our trip to Jamaica, but it got postponed until the spring of 2022 due to Covid 19.

 

The Gaither Vocal Band comes to Ellendale

 

Uncle Porgy's final resting place

 Porgy passed away in 2020 during the pandemic and it took forever to get his paperwork completed from his Army Discharge.  Janice was finally able to get it all squared away and have his memorial and burial at the West Tennessee Veterans Cemetary.  It was lovely and very befitting of a soldier like Porgy that served his country well.

Orange Beach - Summer of 2021 - Conlees & Hosfords

 

my Bible

 Now that I am getting older, my eyesight was getting worse and worse, so I bought a new bible with my Christmas money from my dad.  It is a blue/green color and new living translation.  When I was waiting for it to come in, I was looking at the Amazon reviews because what I really needed was a giant print that I could read easily.  I saw a review from my daughter Sarah.  She had done the same thing with her money from daddy too. Isn't it crazy that we bought the exact same bible.

Today, I got in these mail bible tabs that Sarah bought and had mailed to me.  I am so in love with them.  They are not put on there perfect, but Jesus shows us grace every day so I think they are beautiful.

Sarah bought them from a little Etsy shop called Salt & Charm.

The card enclosed had the verse Ephesians 3:20

"Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power, at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more and we might ask or think."