A Simple Kind of Christmas

I have been trying to get this up for several days, but it’s better late than never, right? 🙂 So… Every year, we try to think of ways to simplify the Christmas season so that we can concentrate more on the true meaning of Christmas – that Jesus came to Earth to save...

Icing Cookies!!

*Editor’s note: I just realized that this never got posted when it was ready a couple weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!   Every Christmas we like to ice Christmas cookies together. This year we made them early and then froze them so that they were ready to ice when...

Peer Pressure Drives Cousins to Pig Pen!

While in Bainbridge for Thanksgiving, we decided to go to the annual “Swine Time” held in Climax, Georgia. This being my first Swine Time, I didn’t really know what to expect. This massive celebration of the pig included contests such as hog calling, chittlin’ eatin,...

Playing in the Leaves

When the leaves started falling, Cocoa, Belle, ‘Berty, and I made a pile of leaves and jumped in it! We buried each other, rolled around in  them, and just had lots of fun together! I am glad that I have such sweet sisters that I can have fun with!...

Christmas Joys – a Little Early!

One of the Neely Team idiosyncrasies is that we like to set up our Christmas tree before Thanksgiving every year. While some would say that this makes them forget about the true and important reason for Thanksgiving, it has quite the opposite effect on us! The soft...