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**Title brought to you today by my wonderful wordsmith husband**

It's been grand fun with Gram Gram in town...

Doesn't she look fun?? She is.

Lots of it.

Here's some of the stuff we've been doing...

Barnes & Noble night. Just go, just sit there, just grab 75 or so books that you don't intend to buy...well buy a few, they're books, they're good...and read and read and read, until your wee one grabs a book like this...then you play with trains and stuff.

We got some good V-day books for the kids.

Baking sugar cookies. I have the best recipe ever. It's my great-grandma's, Lola Kelly. There's no regular sugar in it...just powered. They are the best! You want the recipe?? I'll give it to ya...sometime ;)

Smash book time. Mama and me both bought one at Micheal's. They are so fun. We've been smashin' a few pages together.

Last night we went to a paint class. It was fun. And funny.

We painted an abstract-ish painting of a snowy downtown Asheville.

After the class, I drove Mom downtown and showed her what we painted.

What a great memento to take home.

This morning we woke up to snowflakes blowing!!
I know it doesn't look like it, but they were flying!

It was cold and windy all day, but it was still a great day.

When a day starts out with Ree's cinnamon rolls, it's gonna be a good day.

Soooo stinkin' good!

After brunch, we took off to the famed Biltmore Estate. (THANK YOU, STEPHANIE!!!)

It was really cold so we didn't take too many outside pics and we weren't allowed to take indoor pics, so this is what I got....

Clockwise: Little girl on a tour; little girl looking at the hugest house ever; little girl with her daddy taking a tour;  GramGram and a little girl freezing their tukuses; giant lion; little boy on a tour...yes, I took some indoor pics. I like rules...until I don't like rules, so then I break them; largest house in America; largest house in America with a pretty sun flare.

So when you aren't allowed to take pictures of the inside of the hugest house in America and you get the stink eye when you pull out your camera phone, first you snap a few to be stubborn, then you wait till you get to the candy store.

Yes, there's a candy store at Biltmore. And a bookstore, a regular little shop, a toy shop, a cafe, a coffee shop, and an ice cream shop...alllll in the carriage house. It's quite something.



So yes, we're having a bit of a good time....besides for a bit of a backache I have. Please pray for a miracle healing. Other than that, we're having a blast...and not even thinking about the g-word. Not. one. bit.

See you in a few!

xo,

{alicia}