Batson family gathering
Saturday was the big day. It may have only been 2 days since Thanksgiving, but it was time for the big family Christmas celebration. But since we were all staying together (mostly), we have some time to hang out together before the official festivities began. I even managed to get in a couple of the pictures myself.
The game of the gathering was Spoons. Our girls had never played, but they quickly grew to love it.
These girls didn’t actually make it to the finals, but they were asked to stand in for those who did.
There was also a lot of foosball played.
Nutter Butters and Oreos are great, but they’re even better when decorated.
There was also some hula hooping. Note that Molly’s cream soda bottle is empty. She just likes to show that she could drink something while hula hooping.
There were several important activities during the official gathering. Chief among these was eating (sorry, no pictures of people shoveling food into their mouths). There was also the gift exchange (more on that later). There was watching the Iron Bowl (sadly, not a fun year for this). And possibly most importantly, there was a corn hole competition. We’re not really corn hole playing people in our family, but we picked up the intricacies of the game throughout the day. In particular, Leah got really good at it.
We took a short break from corn hole to exchange gifts.
Molly was a huge fan of the mermaid blanket her cousin got her.
And we had to take a group picture.
Then it was back to the corn hole competition. It lasted well past dusk. Despite being the only all-kid team, Leah and Emmie defeated their dads to make it to the finals.
Leah and Emmie defeated Maddie and John to win the whole tournament.
We had a great time gathering with everyone.
