Christmas in Port Gibson

This year we celebrated Christmas in Port Gibson! Austin, Beau and I arrived on Monday to clean and decorate. Austin was very handy and turned a chifferobe in the billiards room into an awesome bar! Ashton and Kudzu arrived on Tuesday. We drove to Vicksburg to get groceries and Austin and Ashton decided they needed "live" trees in their rooms. The trees were eleven dollars each, the decorations were another 30 dollars, the experience was PRICELESS! Watching them pick out the stuff and then making tree stands and decorating them was such a joy to watch! Mark and Lulu arrived Wednesday afternoon soon followed by his parents, Mimi and PawPaw. We had a very memorable Christmas together in Port Gibson....

Christmas with the Fulmer Family

On the weekend before Christmas we celebrated with Nana, Tom, Wes, Debbie, Reid, Tyler, Ellen and Maw Maw. We had our traditional Gumbo, Yum Yum, played twister, Bingo ( with prizes ) and drove around looking for Christmas lights! We also visited a live nativity at Christ Methodist Church.

Madrigal Dinner

Ashton's third Madrigal Dinner was Wonderful! MiMi, PawPaw, Nana, Tom, Austin, Ellen, Mark and I were all at the final performance of the evening. Ashton was seated front row and center this year since she's a Senior ( boohoo!!) The ad the put in the program this year had a picture of Ashton with her new dog Kudzu...we think he looks a little medieval!

Thanksgiviing

Thanksgiving this year was spent in Mountain Home Arkansas with the Sullivants and the Clarks. We had wonderful food, great fun and beautiful weather!

Progress in Port Gibson

Mark, Ashton, Lulu, Kudzu and I spent a few days in Port Gibson recently. We went expecting it to be really cold and it turned out to be a beautiful, perfect temperature weekend. We watched all of the Indiana Jones Movies, made a trip to the Dollar General, went to Georgia's at the Depot and heard Lonesome Mel sing and enjoyed dinner,I finished a lamp I've been restoring forever, and I got the Christmas Tree up! Ashton and I tackled a project we've been wanting to get done; we stripped the Original wallpaper off the walls in her bedroom!!! Quite a Dirty Job! What an awesome surprise I found .... I was working on the area above the fireplace and found that it wasn't solid mortar, but was wood in one area....I found some hinges and a keyhole and discovered a hidden DOOR!! I was so excited I about fainted! I pried it open, scared of what might jump out at me, and found a small area with shelves inside....NO TREASURE! Darn! It was still very exciting! We didn't get started until Sunday and were so tired that we decided to spend the night and wake up really early Monday and head home so that Mark would get to work on time.

Maw Maw's Birthday

My Grandmother turned 94 on Friday!! My Mother, Aunt Carol Lynn and I took her to lunch at Applebees. Maw Maw is just as sharp as a tack still. She makes sure you are taking the right turns to get to your destination, she always orders hot tea ( no matter what the restaurant) and wants to know what kind of cup it's going to come in....most of the time it's not fine china! haha... We had a great time catching up. I also redid my booth this week and Christmasized ( my own word) it!

October

October was a very busy and fun month for us. It started with Ashton and I going on a road trip to Greenville, MS to visit a new dermatologist. I am directionally challenged and took a wrong turn and to our surprise we ended up in Arkansas, who knew it was so close!? However had we not made that wrong turn we would never have seen the Alpaca Farm!! We had to pull over and take pictures!
That weekend Mark and I headed to Port Gibson. We finally hung some pictures on a few of the walls ( who cares that they aren't painted!) We also hung drapes in the billiards room.

The next weekend we went back to Port Gibson with the kids, Mom and Tom came for the day on Sunday. We cooked hotdogs on the grill and rocked on the porch and took the driving tour of Port Gibson ending at the Mississippi River.

A few days later we were driving past Petsmart and saw the CARA people with puppies for adoption. Ashton and I fell for a puppy we named Kudzu! ( a weed that grows by the side of the road) Yes we are suckers for a puppy!

The next weekend we visited Marks parents in Jasper, with all THREE dogs! I'm sure they are still vaccumning up dog hair! We had a wonderful visit; fishing, shooting skeet, riding in the woods, and paddle boating.

The next weekend we were back in Port Gibson with Ashton and her friend Tori. The weather was beautiful so we rode bikes a lot! While we were there we saw a flyer about "Paint Day" that was to take place the next weekend, so yes we were back again!

This was Halloween weekend; Austin and Ellen arrived before Mark and I and were set up on the front porch handing out candy to the neighborhood kids! Ellen dressed up like Mrs. Heath and Austin was planning on doing Risky Business ( underwear and socks), but thank goodness it was too cold! They even brought Austiin's pumpkin he carved "Happy Hal". The Saturday morning was "Paint Day". Artists set up all over twon painting things in Port Gibson. We rode around on our bikes checking it all out! That night there was a wine and cheese part at Georgias and the art was auctioned off with 20% of the profits going to the Save Church Street fund. We had a great time, met new friends and left with THREE painting!