Saturday dawned with the promise of a beautiful day. It was mild enough to usher the four small children outside. We did a walk-about of the neighborhood. My ulterior motive was for the little ones to work out some of the never-ending supply of energy that only children seem to possess. My backyard is blessed to have several pecan trees so our next order of business was to rake some leaves. It wasn't enough that we raked the leaves into piles. Kori wanted to haul the leaves to the burn site. The burn site is situated in the side yard next to the street. I posted a couple of pictures on flickr as proof that the kids really did enjoy hauling leaves to the burn site. Just as luck would have it, the county attorney and his wife stopped by and reminded me of the Child Labor Law. I don't have a clue what he's talking about. These children were simply playing in the leaves and building a fort made of leaves next to the street. Think that will hold up in court?!
We had our first round of Christmas on Saturday. Kris and I met up with Sam's people right after lunch at Vernie's house. Man -- talk about a spread of food! I finally had to push myself away from the table. Got in a quick visit and on to Mama's house we went. More food and more visiting. Kelli and her crew will be staying home for Christmas this year so the little kids opened gifts from us early this year. Gary introduced us to a dice game called "FARKLE". My stepfather absolutely loves this game. (So much in fact that I ordered it from amazon.com this morning as his Christmas gift.) And "Farkle" is exactly what we said every time we took a gamble and rolled the dice one too many times. Fun game if you like games of chance. Kris came to the conclusion that it wouldn't do for us to gamble in Las Vegas. She said I would be saying something stronger than "FARKLE" if I lost money.
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