December 29th... we made the trek to Nashville to celebrate Christmas with my dad, his wife Brenda, my sisters and all of our families. It was a great time - I feel like I say that all the time (that everything was great fun) but usually, if I am going to post something on here, it's going to be good memories, not bad, right??? Oh well - moving on to the point of this post.... memories....
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| I have said it before and I will say it again.... Elaina ADORES her cousins, Sadie and Celia. She would move in with them if she could. |
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| Alexandra and Nell |
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| Prepping for dinner (and conversation) |
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| Celia and Alexandra |
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| Dave and Nell - the soon to be parents - YAH!. We are all excited about that. |
This year my sister, Abby, came up with an idea for us all to bring the dry ingredients of our favorite meal (or one we make a lot). We then had a game where we guess the meal and who brought it. Then all that food was donated to Second Harvest. It was a great idea and fun plus helped out a good cause.
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| here is all the food... |
Some of the meals were:
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| Vegetable soup... |
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| This was Celia's meal... Chicken nuggets with honey mustard, corn, and peas... this was hard to guess |
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| These are the ingredients to a school lunch - brought by Kate. Very creative. |
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| Spaghetti |
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| Here we all are, guessing the meals |
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| Lots of pondering going on.... |
Just some snapshots of the day....
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| Dinner time.... |
It snowed (a very little bit) but the girls bundles up for a blizzard, grabbed the sled and went out side. I am not sure the sled was used.
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| A teeny tiny snowman |
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| playing outside in the blizzard |
Next was present time... my dad always give the grand kids some sort of coin/s. This year they got a roll of war time steel pennies ("steelies") from 1943. Very cool. He is WAY into coins and I think it's pretty cool
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| The gift swap was a kitchen item/gadget for everyone..Celia scored this baking pan for cookies |
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| Elaina was confused by it all as she was not sure what to really do with any of it. She ended up with a jar of Aunt Kate's blueberry jam and an i-tunes card. |
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| December 29th also happens to be Doug's birthday so we celebrated with a cake and candles. Happy Birthday Doug! |
Next, it was family photo time....my dad got us all shirts so we posed with them. These next 2 shots are getting the camera set up for the timer shot and the family being silly ....
The whole gang... I love this picture... it's so good.
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Front: Sadie, Elaina, Celia, Alexandra
Second row: Abby, Doug, Kate, Quentin
Third row: Brenda, Dad, Dave, Erik, Erin, Nell |
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