Our children and families enjoy having Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in their own homes, which is great. Also Andy always has Christmas Eve services that he leads and Josh helps with the audio for their church's Christmas Eve services. So these first three pictures were of the grandchildren on Christmas Eve in each of their homes💖
They all arrived in Conway Thursday, December 26th. Josh, Michelle, Avi and Andy, Carman and Laine all stayed at an Airbnb here in Conway that I rented (two of our church members own it). The 3 younger girls stayed with Jeff and I and then the 5 boys stayed with Rachel and Jonathan. This is just a "snippet" of the many pictures I took (as those on Facebook know😏)
I prepared the big Christmas meal (turkey, ham, homemade noodles and all the fixin's as well several desserts). Thankfully, it was warm and we were able to sit up tables and chairs in the garage and all eat there. Also got our first family picture with my new tripod/remote.
DeDe sure loves these kiddos!
(Recreation of the picture below of the grandkids with Great Grandma Boore in 2020)
Eating dessert in the bedroom
Josh created a really fun game for us -- unwrapping a huge ball of saran wrap with lots of prizes
Laine won the last prize!
And Josh also did one for the younger bunch (that they played in the garage)
Ellie won the last prize!
The three girls that stayed with us.....and even though I had two guest beds, they ended up sleeping together in one bed!
DAY TWO in Little Rock at the McCrary Home
(Another recreation from 2021)
There is a story to the next three pictures.....at Fulbright Elementary where Rachel teaches, and Eisley, Gideon and Kipling attend, they had a Gingerbread House contest. They could not use anything edible. Eisley won 3rd place. From our family text thread, we sure thought she should have won 1st place! So Papa had a recount!
And yes, Eisley won first place!!
Michelle had created a second game for the kids! It was fun too!
They all ended up with prizes!
We did lots of great eating, playing games, Copeland and Ellie directing another movie, visiting, watching the Hogs win, etc.!!
I'm always so grateful that they share it with us and feed us delicious meals!
They always do so good in getting Jeff and I gifts! New Ipods with all the accessories. We love them!
DAY 3 -- BACK IN CONWAY
And then it was gift opening time!!
Stocking Time
A wonderful day!!
They all arrived back at our house late morning. The kids played games for a while. Andy & Carman got pizza for our lunch.
Then 14 of us went to the theater to see Sonic, the Hedgehog (4 went shopping and/or naps). It was a very, very rainy day so indoor activities were our only options!
We then went by the Airbnb so the kids could put on their church clothes and then we went to Antioch and took family pictures. There is a whole post about that so won't add any pictures here. The kids changed clothes after that (at the church) and then we went to Nando's, a Mexican Restaurant in Conway, and had dinner (then everyone went to their respective homes for an early night since church and traveling was on the agenda Sunday).
Sunday was a very special day and those pictures will be included in the upcoming retirement post.
Once again my heart is so thankful for all the memories made and the blessing of all our family being together for another Christmas!💗
Just now had time to look at these blogs. Great writing and wonderful pictures!!
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