Christmas visit with Dad on Grandma's birthday

Well, Sunday was Grandma's 86th birthday. We were corrected that it was her 85th and each one after this is also the 85th, and she does hope to have plenty more even if they all will be 85th birthdays.

As always, the visits to Grandma's are magical for the kids. She keeps beautiful dollhouses and Joanna enjoys playing with them, and Thomas, of course, likes to go play on the video games with Justin.

Dad made a lot of progress on his shed and even let the kids chop some kindling for the stove.

We got a little visit in with Caronna and Brenda as well, right off the start. It was good to see everyone.

Christmas 2018 at Rachel's

Saturday, we visited Rachel. We enjoyed some beef stew, cornbread, and brownies, probably too much. We saw Rachel, Andrew, Matthew, and Tyler, Austin, and Joshua. Thomas was delighted with his Nintendo Labo from Rachel and Nerf gun from Andrew. Joanna was delighted with her Baby Born girl doll from Rachel and her Nerf crossbow from Andrew. I got only a few pictures. This year I guess I was just wrapped up in the visiting, because I took very few pictures.
Joshua was pretty excited about Joanna and Thomas and he ran up to each of them to get a hug and be picked up by them.

Andrew sported a cool ugly sweater with a two-thumbs up Trump saying Make Christmas Great Again!

Rachel liked her satin hads and shoe gift card. Andrew hopefully wasn't too offended at having a TN plaque. He gave me some coffee--my favorite, of course. And he got Jason a sweater/sweatshirt. Jason also got new casual pants from Rachel.