The day after Christmas we got together with the Dixon family to celebrate. This year we went to Bob & Susie’s house.

Thomas & Tori playing before lunch.

After lunch the great grandkids helped Tori pass out the gifts. Then everyone opened their stockings.

Opening the duck that Uncle Bob made for Will and Greyson. Will loves the duck but sometimes it’s a bad duck and it bites people and tonight we had to “learn” the duck its ABC’s before bed.

We gave Grandmama and Daddy Bill a frame with the 4 great-grandkids handprints – I think it was a hit.

Karen gave the boys these bouncy bulls – Thomas will have to grow into his.

Will is obsessed with his pink bull! He literally bounced around on that thing for hours saying, “Hoppy, hoppy all day long!”

And that wraps up this week long series on how we celebrated Christmas!

This past week/weekend we headed to Pigeon Forge with Nonny and PawPaw for a few days of  fun and relaxation. The week started off on a nasty note with both me and Will having a stomach virus but thankfully we were all better by time to leave on Thursday.  We had a lot of fun and here are the pictures(all but one taken by Gayle) to prove it!

Will is ready to get this vacation started!

The condo we stayed at was really nice and had a great pool.

Swimming with PawPaw.

The condo even had a lazy river!

On Saturday we went to Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies. It was a lot of fun and Will really enjoyed looking at all the fish.

PawPaw, Will, Nonny and the diver. Can you see the diver in the water?

Will touched a horseshoe crab. He’s such a boy – not grossed out by anything!

Mommy, Will & Daddy in front of the shark jaw.

On Saturday we went to DollyWood’s Splash Country. We all loved it!

Will LOVED the water slides and went down them about 100 times.

We all had to take turns taking him down all day long.

More water slide fun.

The condo had a huge jacuzzi tub and Will enjoyed swimming in it too.

The view from our condo. Thank you for a great time PawPaw and Nonny!