Hiking

My friend, Michelle, called me and asked me to go for a walk.  With her, it's never a simple walk.  3 hours and sore legs later we had a delightful talk and some pretty pictures.

 

Game nights

 

This is the painting that I picked up from the art show.  It's Flight into Egypt.  I love it.  It also made it necessary to deep clean our bedroom.  We moved everything and vacuumed/dusted everything. 

tolerant cat

We hosted a game of Arkham Horror at our house.  We had Joe, Eli, Cy, Hal and Maisy over.  They were so cute. Cyrus loved our slide and made musical jokes on our digital piano.  Maisy showed us favorite musicals and did diamond dots with Evelyn and I.  Hal and Seth played games. The rest played Arkham Horror.

The cat wanted to see why everything was rearranged and wanted to check that Jer's new shelf was up to standards.

We also held a game night with my brother Seth.  I played this one.  It was fun.  He's my favorite gaming buddy.

Puzzle Hunt

 

The day after Christmas, my friend Beth invited us to do an outdoor escape room.  We divided into three groups of three and raced to complete all 6 puzzles.  Beth, Evelyn and Rose won.  We all had a fun time.  Then we went for pizza after.  Then we met up with the Komens for dinner, a movie and travel pictures.  That was fun too.

Christmas Day

 

We got up at a leisurely 7:30 am. All the kids slept on the floor in the boys room.  It was really cute.  

Sam's Christmas consisted of a trumpet, two cheap Japanese flutes, and an anvil.  It's so fun to see his fun interests as he grows.

Seth wrapped the anvil. It was really heavy. It was so funny watching both him and Seth trying to position it.

Evelyn's favorite gift was Temmie.

Ada's getting singing lessons.

Daddy got trains.

Seth got mostly legos.  He was thrilled.

Our engineer had fun with the train and with building tunnels for it.

Jer made me a board to work on stained glass projects.  It was so nice of him.  My main present was a painting by my friend, Sabrina Squires.

Christmas breakfast.

Evelyn loves her diamond dots.

Lego time.

The cat thought that she had to be part of all this too.

The most thoughtful presents were from Ada.  She customized two magic cards for each of the family.  It was so cute.

Christmas Eve

 

Usually on Christmas Eve, we are with the Robertson's. Grandma just had surgery, and I had the tail end of a cold, so we did something else this year.  

We drove around to look at lights.

We made pinecone cake pops.  It was Ada's brain child and it was fun to do.

We watched movies, made cake and Uncle Seth painted the temple that Jordan printed for grandma.

Ada helped me run some last minute errands.

The downtown lights were still on when we were on our way home, so we stopped to "frolic".

Getting ready to frolic.