We were finally able to celebrate our family Christmas on the Saturday following Christmas Day. Our daughter, son-in-law, and two of the three grands arrived on Friday in time for lunch. I had planned easy kid-approved meals for Friday -- hot dogs for lunch and burgers for dinner.
There is a park in front of our house so there was some playing going on!
There was some playing happening inside, too.
Just FYI - there was NO sleeping going on. haha! That is not exactly true. This one did take a good nap on Friday -- perhaps too long. Mark and I had moved upstairs and had set up the little bed in our bedroom. Laura and one girl slept in our bed on Friday night and the other slept in the little bed -- or that is how the night began. To be honest, there was not a lot of sleeping going on. Scott ended up with the sweet six year old in the bed with him upstairs and Laura and the baby were downstairs. Mark and I were in the other guest room.
Mark met Glenn at the gas station on Saturday morning so that our oldest grand could come for the whole day. Everyone left me at one point for several hours with all three. Whew! The youngest is VERY BUSY. At this point, the older girls were making marshmallow designs with toothpicks and miniature marshmallows. The little wanted to make her own - which included trying to eat a few . . .which I found "glued" to the side of the bar stools later that day haha!
Pops brought in the little table and the bigger girls worked on Gingerbread houses . . .the little one wanted her own chair and her own house!!
When everyone came back, there was more park time. I may have been day drinking at this point - which I never do hahahaha!
That is our son in the swing - just a big kid.
Our oldest is 3 years older than our middle and she is so sweet with her.
I went in to work on our dinner and everyone went to one of the other parks - we have several in the neighborhood.
Before dinner, we gave our gifts to the girls.
The little one wanted jewelry like her sister's so this Gran found safe jewelry. NOPE - she wouldn't have anything to do with it!! Not the same - NO! NO!
The middle daughter received a DJ Furby Interactive toy from Santa - everyone was wearing it like a boa!
Our daughter-in-law had sent the name of some special markers. I was able to get a box for each of the older girls . . .this Gran would like some, too, please. They are in this huge case and there are so many colors!!
She received a scooter and decided to sit on it - immediately!
We grabbed a quick selfie before dinner - you can see all of the wonderful mess around us. Our son-in-law and daughter are on the left. I'm in the middle (horrible picture but who cares, right?). Mark is behind me. Our son is over my right shoulder. Our "son by choice" is in the back right. Our dauther-in-law is on the far right.
The sofa -- our little on the left; middle in the middle; oldest on the right.
After dinner, S'mores were dessert.
Since no one had slept the night before, our daughter and son-in-law and their two loaded their car and headed home after dinner. It is about an hour and a half or a little more to drive to their house. They all went to bed in their own beds that night. It was a short time together, but it was good!
Any time with family, short or long, is a good thing! I loved seeing your kiddos and all the fun you had. Great photos and fun memories!! xo
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