Christmas in the Cabin

This was our last year in the cabin in Helen.   The kids are all getting grown, and spending less time with us.  Next year, Christmas day is on a Friday, so we'd have to be moving out of the cabin on Christmas day, and we don't want to do that!   2021, maybe we'll get the cabin for New Year's week - we'll have to see and see what the kids' schedules look like.

This was our first time moving without the truck, so we REALLY had to pare down what we could bring.  Only one bin of Christmas decorations, and not so much "stuff"!

We mixed it up a little bit, and put the stockings up randomly instead of grouped by families:

Neil, Pam and Jake came up on Satuday and we hung out in downtown Helen.   We had lunch at the Two Tire Tavern - really good food!

Jake is smiling!!!

On Sunday the White kids stayed with us. It poured rain all Sunday and Monday so we played lots of poker and Yahtzee.

We had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner:  herb crusted rack of lamb with french bread and rosemary roasted red potatoes.  YUM!

Christmas day brought everyone to the cabin. So much fun!   Mila wasn't here - she went back to Russia to be with her family for Christmas.  So, our last traditional picture with the grandkids on the stairs was missing Mila.  Pam drew a face on a paper plate for Nate to hold - that was Mila.

Then, the day after Christmas, the guys and the kids went golfing, and Katie, Pam and I went wine tasting.  It was great!   We brought a picnic, and bought 3 bottles of wine and sat on their patio for the afternoon.   Very fun!