Hope all had great holidays. Our French son, Mat Albarel wrote this week and said he was having a good Christmas vacation. He lives in Paris and just began a new career in Executive Recruiting with Michael Page. Jim is also a "headhunter", so it was nice for them to talk about their experiences this past August at our son David's wedding to Amanda Sutton. (Good Times, Good Times)
We had a wonderful day with visits from almost everybody, our newest grandson Kent was with his father that day, we missed him. Matt and Jennae, they are deciding on a name for their daughter who is coming in May, Morgan and John with Zoe and Lily (they have decided on James Peter for their son who is coming in April), Kate and Sammy with Dominic and Xavi, David and Amanda and Betty, my mom. We decided to not have a sit down dinner, just sandwiches and other spreads and lots of cookies and candies. It was more relaxing, believe me.
The day after we took off to Guards for a couple of days. Sammy and Kate and the boys came also. We did some target practice with Sammy's guns and rifle. The next day J,Sammy's brother and his wife Nicole, came up after hiking at Chimney Rock. (Very cold and some trails are closed during the winter, very normal) We had our 4 dogs and Charlie and Bailey and Gus. So the dogs outnumbered the adults! But everyone was very well behaved. Bailey (tiny version of a pit mix) is not trained on the invisible fence and she did take off for about 45 minutes, she is very fast and ran up and down our little mountain and around the pond. Charlie is well trained for a 8 monthe old Yellow Lab. (He reminds me of my old Dooley, very goofy and lovable) And Gus is a 1 yr old handsome German Shepherd.
After Bailey got snagged up by Nicole, Jim and I stayed up at the house with the boys and dogs while the others had a little obstacle practise (I am fighting with Kate about the spelling of this word) shooting at targets. Lots of loud bangs. Then Jim went down to shoot our old shotgun. (You have to have one in the mountains, we have bears and bobcats,(Jennifer remembers) and of course snakes in the summer)
Then a great dinner of pulled pork fajitas and spanish rice. Then a big corn hole tournament, Jim and I won the most games, imagine that? And Jim went to play Jenga with Dominic and Xavi. I played Scattergories with J, Nicole, Sammy and Kate. Nicole won! But it was great fun with lots of trash talking. Back to Weddington for a day or so, and then back up to the farm. Also we await our friends Jeffrey and Lea Anne passing through on their way to Sanibel Island. As always, living the life of Riley......
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