ABBY CELEBRATES

It is hard to believe that our oldest granddaughter turned nine over the weekend.

The cake taste as good as it looks.

                                              
 She had family and a few girls over for a slumber party.

 

Part of Abby's birthday gift was to get to go Friday night to a Katy Perry concert. She has been a big fan of Katy Perry since she was a tiny little thing.

COLD

Brrr 12 degrees here this morning. That is cold for this part of the country. Our creek behind our house is frozen.

BRANSON TRIP WITH KC FAMILY

We left about noon on Christmas day to meet Michelle and family in Branson. We arrived around 4 and immediately starting getting Christmas dinner prepared. We took the food with us to cook. We had everything ready by about 6. It all turned out good. The next morning  Melvin awoke to a stomach bug. So, he and I spent the day at the condo and didn't leave until time to return home on Wednesday. I was feeling a little bad but just hoping I would make it back before anything happened and I did but the bug hit me within a few hours after returning.

Also Michelle and family were returning home and got rear ended at a red light.  The lady didn't even brake.  It is a good thing they were in their jeep.  There was not hardly any damage to their car and only had sore necks.  I think it scared Karlie really bad.

We stayed in condos at Branson Creek.  They were really nice.  We had a waterfall outside our bedroom window and we could hear it all night.

Carter and Karlie opening gifts.  They were proud of all their gifts.Both of my granddaughters were really into Jo Jo and Hatchimals this year.

 Michelle, Tad, Tracy, Carter and Karlie left to go have fun on Tuesday morning.  They went to Cedar Lodge and the kids played arcades and they all went bowling.


The kids standing in front of the Christmas tree at Big Cedar Lodge.

 The bowling alley looks neat but they said it was a little distracting.

Top of the Rock

CHRISTMAS EVE 2017

We celebrated with our Arkansas family today and will be traveling to Branson tomorrow to meet our KC family and celebrate with them.


































Jack figured out how to open his gifts.  After opening his first gift he figured it out, that if he unwrapped it, a toy was going to be inside.

I think Jack liked his chair from Momo and Pap-pa.

JACK/ABBY

This was Abby her 1st Christmas.

Jack in the same outfit his 1st Christmas.

KARLIE/UNION STATION/KC

Michelle and family make a trip to Union Station in KC every Christmas. Karlie looks like she is enjoying it.

JACK'S PHOTO SHOOT

SANTA AND GRANDKIDS

CHRISTMAS/2017

This will probably be the last year for this tree.  We have had it for over ten years, time for a new one.  One that is slimmer and will fit better in front of the window.  I tried to add a little more red in this year.  Even was able to get some live pine branches from trees in our back yard.  A nice perk to living back in Arkansas.

OUR THANKSGIVING/2017

We didn't have our KC crew  this year but will meet them in Branson on Christmas Day.

Jack looks like he is excited over the food and can't even eat any. The food was delicious.  Hubby cooked the turkey.  I made the cornbread dressing and we ordered a pecan pie to be made and picked it up at a local restaurant which was really good.  The rest was done by Tracy and Kim.  I couldn't do it anymore without them. I did use to do it all without any help though.

Jack and his Pap-pa.

LAKE WILLASTEIN

This lake is across the boulevard from us and is beautiful this fall.

TRIP TO KC

We took a quick trip to KC this weekend to help Karlie celebrate her 8th birthday.  Tracy, hubby, Abby and I left Friday morning.  Saturday morning was Karlies last soccer game.  Her team won and Karlie scored two of the goals.  After the game Karlie went to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday celebration.  She didn't have a party but she did get a cake and Chuck E brought it out to her.  Tracy worked at Chuck E Cheese for several years when she was in high school and in college.  She brought a few of those cakes home when she was working there and they are just as good now as they were  way back then.

We got up Sunday morning and packed and headed back to Arkansas but stopped on the way out for a photo shoot.

OUR VIEW

This is the view we have from our breakfast room table. I love being back in Arkansas and having trees again.