Christmas Part 4!

On the Friday after Christmas we drove to San Antonio for the Bowl Game. They guys went to the game and me, mom, and Steph went shopping at the Outlet Mall in San Marcos. Baylor won and the guys had a great time!

The day after the game, we decided to drive to my uncle's in Leakey since we were so close. He moved out there a few years ago and none of us had been to his place.

On the way there I saw this sign. Over Christmas we watched the movie, "Seven Days in Utopia" which was filmed in Utopia, TX and I didn't realize it was that close to Leakey. If you haven't seen this movie you should. It is a great family Christian movie with a great message.

Our first stop was my uncle's restaurant, The Hog Pen. He took an old gas station and turned it into a barbecue restaurant.

We ate lunch there and it was so good! If you are ever in Leakey you should stop and eat.

He even makes his own BBQ sauce.

My uncle loves old cars and so he has a few parked in the parking lot.

Old motorcycles hang all over the place.

My uncle rides Harleys and his place is right along a popular motorcycles ride path so he picked a great spot for them to stop and get something to eat.



After lunch we drove out to my uncle's place. This picture doesn't do it justice but the drive was so pretty!

I love this picture of Glenn and Uncle Buddy driving to his house.

My uncle built his house by himself. I was very impressed! He learned along the way and did an amazing job!

Beautiful view from his back porch.

 This weekend was the last weekend of deer season and my dad was excited to possibly get a deer off the back porch. My uncle said one morning he walked on the porch and saw a mountain lion drinking out of his water trough about 20 feet away. Scary!! 

We never saw a deer so we did some target shooting instead.

The weather was so nice and I really enjoyed relaxing on the porch and looking out at the beautiful scenery. My uncle made us some venison stew and his girlfriend made us a homemade pecan pie with pecans from a tree on his property. It was so good and I am so glad we went to visit!

I am always so thankful for my two weeks off during Christmas and this year I am even more thankful to God that my family was able to spend so much time together. I know it will not always be like this and these are priceless times.