DRAGGING CHRISTMAS OUT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE

The week between Christmas and New Years we were blessed with 5 grandchildren in our home. Raising kids is for the young!! We were worn out by the end of the week, but we had a great time.

GIRLS' MORNING AT THE MALL: Sunnyside has a small mall that fascinates the girls for some reason...even though they live in cities with many huge malls. I like it because we can get our shopping done quickly since there aren't that many stores. But this day they had more in mind than shopping.
Corinne, Natalee, and Sophie pose by one of the mall fountains which are really quite attractive.
(That's both girls AND fountain.)

Okay, this could have been embarrassing had there been very many people there on a Wed. morning.

Rides are still only 25 or 50 cents. However, when these kids' parents were little, you could get on for 5 or 10 cents. Most of them outgrew the mall toys by this age though.

Then the parents showed up on Friday. We had another Christmas dinner then Judi took Corinne, Natalee, and Harrison home. We then had our gift exchange with Keith and Melora and Sophie and Sam.

We celebrated Melora's birthday a few days early on Saturday (that's 38 candles on a red velvet cake) then Keith loaded the kids into their van at gunpoint and took them home. What a week!!

Now Christmas is over and it's time to take down the decorations....not as much fun as putting them up. HAPPY NEW YEAR!