Tuesday, December 31, 2019

A few final photo memories



Claire is really into scrabble. I love that she will sit and play a full game and really tries to come up with the right words. In this game she was determined to beat me.



These photos are from Claire’s Christmas scavenger hunt. Here she’s explaining the balls to all of us the following pictures are us hunting. In the final picture is the treasurer and we all put together the prize this weekend. She’s so sweet and I’m going to have. And she was patient enough to wait until the fifth day of Christmas to do the scavenger hunt what she had planned for us to do on Christmas morning. Clearly there was too much excitement and energy from all the presents. But we did all participate and I think she was happy.











On a final note, Lady Grey has been dealing with nosebleeds this Christmas.  Our holiday break also included a trip to the vet. We’re not sure what’s causing them and hoping that it’s just a little cut on her nose. Ellie is having a really hard time with her aging. 

Christmas morning at Gramma


 This one turned out to be quite a relaxing morning. We didn’t leave moms until about 3 PM after having arrived at 9 AM. All the kids played really nicely together. We all took turns watching each other open presents and even the little ones were patient enough for that approach to be enjoyable. This was a great final Christmas celebration. 






















Cousin Christmas

Cousin Christmas was a bit of a whirlwind. The latimer’s were in town for maybe 30 hours max. They rolled out around 10 PM on Friday night after the new puppy got hurt and danny’s family all came down with the stomach bug. Katie had also been dealing with a version of the flu making her feel rotten. Amy really hated leaving and begged to stay. It was a tough ending to what everyone had anticipated to be a nice long visit. 

 Nonetheless we all managed to spend a few hours together here and exchange gifts. 








Stockings

After the numerous presence of Christmas morning, we wait until the next day to open the stockings that seem to feels for us. This is a nice way to draw that Christmas is a carryover from my childhood experience where we open stockings either Christmas night after we got back from wherever we had gone that evening or sometimes the next day.

 The kids were nearly as excited to get up on the day after Christmas as they were on Christmas day. 












Christmas night in pictures

 Hazel made steak pie. Mom, George, and dad all joined us. We ended the evening with a game of charades. Mom has been sick in their two week run up to Christmas so it was great to see her out and about and able to join us. 












Christmas morning in photos