Christmas At The Lake

We spent the past weekend at the lake celebrating an early Christmas with our out of town fam, otherwise known as the Bouchillons. 

 Fulton and Caleb quickly warmed up to each other and Caleb showed Fulton all his cool toys. They are about 11 months apart.

 Fulton was just excited to be out of school as his mommy and daddy were.

Friday night we had our big Christmas dinner, crowns and all. Fulton even wore his for about 3 seconds before he ripped it off.

 Saturday morning we were up bright and early ready to play with friends.

 This little charmer kept us entertained...you know since we don't have cable at the lake.

He was having a ball looking out at the water and then Pops came and played with him and he loved it. By the way... we finally have a walker. He decided last week that he would be cool like his friends and finally start walking. Woohoo!

 A quick family photo before heading out for the day.

 We came back and did a little golf cart ride around the farm. Someone was determined to drive.

Saturday night we gathered back together for dinner and some gifts. We attempted a photo with the 3 great grandchildren, all boys, and this is the best we could do. You know what they were staring at... frito scoops. That is how we were enticing them to sit there. Well, not Samuel...poor little one didn't have a choice.

Sister decided we would do another round of gift giving with a little dirty santa/white elephant round. You were supposed to find something around your house that you didn't want and wrap it up. There were some interesting gifts. As you can see the boys enjoyed the stockings or whatever those were. It was pretty funny to see what people opened and much to your surprise, there wasn't much stealing going on.

Then it was time for real gifts. Fulton was so excited with his gift. He got a cool lawn mower. He has worked hard mowing the carpet and hard woods ever since.

And last, the girl's ornament swap. It was such a blessed weekend with family that we don't get to see often enough.