Happy Birthday Great Grandma!!!

I love my lion.  His name is Aslan.

Happy Birthday Grandma Inez!!!!

Family photo

Great grandkids

Grandma and the great grandkids (Finn, Duncan, Tucker & Tess)

Grandma opening her presents (Finn was helping)

Grandma & Duncan before opening presents

Opening stockings

Duncan's not loved at all!

shiny

Yay!  He's looking at the camera!

Duncan's first laptop

Very odd "Sing-a-ma-jig"

I will sleep with my book and my wubby

This past weekend we were able to go down to New Meadows/McCall to celebrate Aaron's Grandma's (or Duncan's Great-Grandma's) 90th birthday party.  It was so much fun!!!!

All of her children and all of their children and all of their children were there (did you follow??).  That's 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 6 1/3 great grandchildren!!!  Amazing.  We had a wonderful time.  There was enough food to feed an army.  We tried to eat it all but I'm not sure we even made a dent!

We also had professional pictures taken of each family and then all of us.  I haven't gotten copies of those yet so I'll hopefully get them posted eventually.  It will be interesting - we had the pictures taken outside & it was snowing.  We were all wearing white shirts & jeans (worst wet t-shirt contest EVER) but hopefully we all showed up okay.  Duncan had his first exposure to snow and was very cute.  He was trying to eat it!

It was really cute to see the great grandkids.  There were 4 under age 4 which was terribly entertaining.  Tucker & Duncan are 2 1/2 months apart, Tess is 18 months and Finn is 3 1/2.  Made for wild times!!  I don't think any of them napped for more than an hour or so.  There were some serious meltdowns by the time we left.  Duncan did okay but was definitely ready for bed when we got back to New Meadows.  So were the parents!

On Sunday we celebrated Christmas with Grandma Sylvia & Grandpa Ken.  Duncan raked in quite some loot!  He is a very loved little boy :)  We are so blessed!  Duncan had fun trying to eat wrapping paper.  He paid a bit of attention to his presents but then discovered the ceiling.  But he sat quietly and patiently through all the present opening.  


It took us about 6 hours to get home Sunday.  We ran into rain for a while but it was simply an excruciatingly long ride.  I was so glad to get back!  Glad we were able to go but grateful to be back at my house with my bed.  I love my bed.  LOVE my bed.  So does my back :)


We both had Monday off so we lazed around all day.  It was wonderful...

and now, the baby needs me :)