My kids adore their cousin Kendalyn. She's so little and so fun. Noah loves being a big cousin to her. He was trying to help her write her letters.
Dad isn't much of a shopper, so his idea this year was to let the kids pick out their own presents. They loved that idea too! But, before we did that, we let Dad open his presents from us first. The grandkids got him a Cubs toaster that toasts the Cubs ensignia onto the toast. It was really cool!
We also got him a box of candy from the 50s and a Cubs banner.
Em and Jeff had his name for the gift exchange and got him a 10 DVD set of John Wayne westerns. Very cool.
He was really excited about that one!
After we had him open his presents, we headed over to Target for the shopping. Trying to keep 5 kids in check (well, 4, since Avery was in her carseat) while buying presents isn't easy!
But, they all managed to get some great stuff and Papa bought it all for them. :-) He did the same thing for the Drexler kids when they were out at Thanksgiving.
After that we headed up to Olive Garden where he took us all out to dinner. Sadly, my taste buds are still not working due to this foul, filth, and foul cold I have, but I imagined it was delicious!!!!! Today, we headed over to see Mom. She was very excited to see us all and, even though our time there was brief, it was really good for all of us to see her. Pete and Jeff refilled her birdfeeder, Madie drew her a picture, the kids signed her "guest book", and showed her some of their presents. We went out for breakfast together before doing a little more shopping and heading home. It was a great week with both sides of the family and Tater had a great time while he was there too. Now, we have a couple days left before we get back to the grind of our regular lives. Looking forward to, what I hope will be, a wonderful new year ahead!
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