Ending The Year At The Gulf

A few days after Christmas we headed to Gulf Shores to (almost) ring in the New Year with the fam. 

Seriously, this is where Matt made us stop for lunch. Gag city. Fulton has never been to a Waffle House (and I wanted to keep it that way), so Matt was excited to initiate him into the greasy world of WH. I had to admit that I hadn't been to one of these since college. For some reason the hubs loves this place. My food really was nasty... but it's probably because I chose a grilled chicken sandwich. Matt said, are you really ordering that? I think our waiter said--I didn't know we served those.

The fam arrived later that night, long after our heads hit the pillows, so we were excited to see them the next morning.

 We got ready and headed to lunch... what we do best at the beach when you can't lay in the sun....eat.

We went to one of our favorites. Tacky Jack's. Love this place. Thankfully they have fun stuff for the kids while you are waiting on your food. Hooray for entertaining places.

 We hit up the gift shop too. Mr. Hollywood and Jr. Hollywood.

That night our sweet fam let the hubs and I go on a date. Woohoo for date night. Date night with Matt Howard is like a breath of fresh air.

Woke up the next morning and enjoyed our crayons from the day before. We have just recently introduced Fulton to these little colorful sticks of wax. He seems to understand what you do with them, but still likes to try to eat them.

We headed to lunch at one of the fam's favorites... Desoto's. By this point the snowbirds had arrived and they were starting to take over the place. Our fam may have been the youngest ones in the place.

We didn't get to go out on the beach... boo... they had tractors and pipes out and were moving sand. We looked on from afar.

 We were thankful for beautiful weather while we were there.

 However, it was a little chilly.

The Howard family decided to head home a day early because Fulton is also known as the "I am on vacation and don't like to sleep." So, needless to say we were a little tired. Not sure why this little guy refuses to sleep in places other than his own bed, but sure makes us not want to go far from home. Sigh.

Of course as we were leaving we told them not to do anything fun without us. Sister said they were probably going to play putt-putt, go to Waterville, ride the bumper boats... you know, all the fun stuff you do when it's 40 degrees outside. So, it's New Year's Eve and 2012 is coming to a close. Maybe I will be able to stay up until at least 9pm tonight. Probably not, but Happy New Years!