Christmas Photos and Saturday on the Playground

We've had a great weekend so far!  Last night, we joined our Sunday School class for a Thanksgiving dinner.  The food was wonderful and the friendship even better!
This morning, we met Santa on the beach for photos and then later took some photos of our own.  We went to Driftwood Beach on Jekyll.  The girls loved playing in all the trees!  Stephen had plans to shoot skeet this afternoon with a friend so the girls and I came home so that they could rest.  Early this evening, we went to the playground at Mary Grace's school.  It's a wonderful playground with a big field and sidewalk all the way around. It's become sort of a meeting place for all the kids in town.  We went there last Sunday afternoon and ran into many friends.  Today, we planned to meet Stella and her family there.  The gnats were bad so we parents got on the swings while the kids biked and ran around the field.  I had forgotten how fun it is to swing!  I felt like I was back in 5th grade.  It was so fun that I decided to try out the jungle gym after that.  Mary Grace impressed us all with her endurance as she ran around the field two times for a total of a half mile after pedaling her Big Wheel around twice!  And, in Mary Grace style, she did all that in ballet flats and a dress.  Elsie biked around the field several times.  We already have plans to go back tomorrow afternoon.