NEW YEAR'S EVE/2016

We went to an early New Year's Eve dinner at the Crazy Habachi.

Kim, Abby and Tracy.

I start laughing every time I look at this picture. For some reason they gave Jamie lots of rice.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

Hubby and I will become grandparents again in April. It will make us two grandsons and two grand-daughters. This video is worth your time to watch. It will make your day. It especially would if you knew the whole story. Just not my story to tell.

CHRISTMAS EVE

Tracy, Kim and Abby came over Christmas Eve and we had some appetizers and then opened gifts.



Abby showing off the ornament that she made for me when she was two. This was the first year I put it on the tree. I had forgotten where I put it until we moved and I found it.

Kim and Abby.

Tracy and Abby.

Melvin and Abby.

Abby at her house on Christmas Eve getting ready for Santa.

KC FAMILY

My KC crew getting reading for Christmas. They will be going to Missouri this year to spend Christmas with Tad's family. Hopefully we will get to see all of them in January in Kansas City though.

Carter and Karlie enjoying the lights at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo.  They go every year.  It is a Christmas family tradition.

Miss Karlie looks happy.

































Michelle, Carter and Karlie

CHRISTMAS CARD TREE

My favorite is my Christmas Card tree.  It has all of my cards with pictures of the grand-kids on them.  I started ordering cards with pictures of them on the cards when Carter was 4.

The one on the left was my first card.  Carter was 4, Abby 9 months and Karlie one month.   I might have been a little prejudice but I thought they were adorable.  The one on the right is this years card.  Carter is 11, Abby 7 turning 8 in January and Karlie just turned 7 in November.  They have grown up so fast.

CHRISTMAS/2016

Abby's hand print when she was two.

ABBY'S SCHOOL'S CHRISTMAS PROGRAM/2016

OUR THANKSGIVING

The crew from KC arrived on Wednesday night. On Thanksgiving Day, Tracy, Michelle, Tad, Carter and Karlie, Kim and Abby were all at our house for Thanksgiving Dinner. We divided up the making of the dishes and I ended up only having to make the dressing, which made it seem really easy.   It sure is nice to have their help.  Our dinner consisted of Turkey, dressing, Honey Baked ham, potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, English pea salad, Sister Shubert dinner rolls and pies for dessert. It was all really good.



After dinner we did the photo shoot for our Christmas cards. We asked permission to use our neighbors backyard.  She had it decorated so cute for Christmas.  It was perfect for a Christmas card background.

 Carter, Karlie, and Abby with the pond on the golf course in the back ground. 

The little girls.

Michelle did theirs for their card also.

Tad and Carter went to the store Thanksgiving night to get milk and came back with this bear.  Karlie squealed when they walked in the door with it.

On Friday Kim and Tracy took Abby and Karlie to Playtime Pizza.  They really enjoyed being together.

On Friday Melvin, Tad, Michelle and Carter played golf. Michelle got some really good pictures of them. It is the golf course that we live on and it is really pretty this time of year. It was a little cool but not too bad.

The first time for Carter to play 18 holes but he did really good.

Melvin and Carter.

The pond behind our house.  You can see our house in the background.  They were excited to see a beaver.

Melvin, Carter and Tad.

Melvin, Tad and Michelle.

KARLIE TURNS SEVEN

Karlie's birthday was yesterday and she turned seven. Doesn't seem possible that our youngest grand-child is already seven.  Her party was at a vintage jewelry store.  Just little girls were invited and they  made jewelry. We didn't go this year.  Too many conflicts. One couldn't get off work. One didn't need to travel and some health problems with another.  I do miss going to Kansas City at this time of year.  It is my favorite time to go with all the trees turning and all the yards covered in leaves.

We will see our KC family for Thanksgiving though.  Looking forward to all of us being together and we plan to go in January to KC and take the grand-kids to Great Wolf Lodge.  It will be for both Karlie and Abby's birthday since Abby will be turning eight in January.

SMORES NIGHT

HALLOWEEN/2016

Miss Abby/She is dressed up as a mermaid.

Miss Karlie is dressed as a witch and I have no idea what Carter is suppose to be dressed as.

We went over to Tracy's last night and Melvin handed out candy. I thought she would have had more trick-or-treaters than she did. Several flat bed trailers with hay and kids on top of the hay came through but most didn't cut down her street. Kids have it made now,  they have golf carts to ride in and don't have to do a lot of walking like my kids did. We saw several golf carts as we were leaving her neighborhood.  With all the hills in her neighborhood, I would want to be riding in a golf  cart also.

The house across from Tracy.

Doesn't Melvin look happy? He did want to hand out the candy, just didn't want to have his picture taken. 

MISS KARLIE/HALLOWEEN

Karlie and her American Girl doll all ready for Halloween.


































 Michelle painted and decorated this pumpkin for a contest at school. I think it should win but she says they never do.