"Southard Christmas"

We were so excited to "host" the Southard Christmas gathering this year! (Which was actually a Southard/Barnes/Harwell/Gammon/Harris/Mason gathering!) To be clear though, we barely hosted.....I organized it by email, but we had it at Mom's house and everyone contributed to the food. Now that's the way to host a party! It had been a long time - too long - since we had seen everyone and it was so great to all be together.


Fielder was passed around all day and got to be held by quite a few new faces.



We couldn't believe the beautiful weather we had! One year we had to reschedule for snow, but this year we were out sitting in lawn chairs and playing games in the backyard!
Claire had so much fun with Brooke and her boyfriend Will. They were so sweet and spent a lot of time playing with Claire.

More presents!


This is the look Sally gave when Mary Lynn handed her a gift (they weren't supposed to buy each other gifts). Although Sally looks perturbed, she then turned around and handed ML a gift too!

We had a great day with everyone and were so thankful that we could all be together! (We missed you Jake!)