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A Christmas Celebration


Yesterday we had a Christmas brunch at my mom’s house. Dan, Jessie, and Gracie were in town. They haven’t been here for a year and a half so this was the first time Evangeline and Madolyn got to meet their cousin, Gracie. The boys were excited to spend some time with her as well. 
 
**Most of these pictures were taken from Jessie’s facebook page.
All 7 grandkids
cousins
I love this baby girl and the fact that she loves to have her picture taken.
cute baby

 

Kingston loved sitting on Uncle Dan’s lap and rubbing icing on him.
uncle and toddler boy

 

uncle and baby girl
We made some fingerprint mugs from the grandkids
aunt and baby
Kingston refused to cooperate so we used his big toe. 
mom and toddler

 

 I told Kai to say “chocolate!”
silly little boy

Jessie made dino tails for all the boys. They absolutely love them.

homemade dinosaur tail

And Evangeline is always up for some pictures with her Uncle Muncle

uncle and baby
cute baby girl and uncle

 

girl cousins

 

little boy holding piggy bank

Right after we were done with my mom’s, we headed to Dough Depot to celebrate Merri’s sweet sixteenth birthday. The food is delicious and the company is even better. 


Merri is beautiful, inside and out 🙂
birthday girl

 

The nutella chunk ice cream cake was amazing! Kingston agrees.
toddler eating ice cream

 

I still remember when Merri was born 16 years ago (on Christmas Eve) and I have loved watching her grow into a beautiful, ravishing red-headed young woman who loves the Lord. Happy Birthday Merri! I’m very happy to call you my friend 🙂

 

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It’s the Holiday Season


The other night, Maggi asked if I would be interested in going to see the holiday decorated train that was coming to Union Station for a few hours. I thought the boys would really like it so we looked up some other places to visit in the city and made a day of it.

We started out at the Courthouse. We heard it was decorated for Christmas. Well, that may have been an overstatement. While it had a few decorations, it was in no way decked out. But we did stay for a short while for some old English dancing.
This is how I always see Maggi now, with a camera in hand.
photographer
kid jumping
friends
my friend

After that we shot over to Union Station. This whole day was planned with that train in mind. The funny thing is that we didn’t actually stop to look at it. There were tons and tons of people there. We ventured inside and got cookies with Mrs. Claus instead.

Kai was too scared to go over by her.
kids sitting with mrs claus
After indulging in a few more free samples, we headed to the City Gardens to see it all lit up. I’m pretty sure half the lights weren’t working. But these light globes were pretty neat.
glowing colored spheres at city garden
So the moral of the story–none of the events were that grand. But we had a good, cold time!