It has taken me awhile to get around to wrapping up the year.
Christmas Day was a little different this year. Our family gathering is small to begin with--just us, Aaron, Christa and four grandkids. This year, Ella was sick and Christa had to stay home with her. We really missed them.
One of the first things that happened when the rest of the family came over in mid afternoon was that Gabe wanted to show us the gift Ella had given him. It was something that looked like a ball, with a launcher. It shot up in the air, and then a parachute opened up. It worked great the first time. And then it got stuck in the magnolia tree in the front of the house. Not a problem, said Mark, Aaron, Levi and Gabe. We will just throw something up and knock it out of the tree.
The first thing that was thrown up in the tree was a football. It got stuck. They started gathering other things to toss up in the tree, confident that each one would knock the other things down. In turn, each thing they tossed up into the tree also got stuck. Charlotte and I were quite amused.
Things caught in the tree...
They ended up getting a 10-foot ladder, but Aaron couldn't quite reach it. So they got two painting pole extensions and screwed them together. Still not long enough.
They ended up taping a third extension rod and were able to get everything down.By then it was time for a little snack. It's kind of hard to see, but I tried to spell the word "JOY" with the cheese and the hummus in the middle. We opened up stocking stuffers. Normally just the kids have something in their socks, not much--we don't do a lot for Christmas. They always have Bombas socks, and this year I bought some unusual candy from a store at the coast.Aaron and Christa got Mark and me a t-shirt that says grUber. We always joke that we run a nonprofit business--Grandpa and Grandma Uber--driving grandkids to and from places they need to be--a highly unprofitable business in terms of money but highly profitable in terms of time spent with them. Now that Charlotte has her license, we will be losing some of our driving gigs and we are both sorry about that.
And there you have it: Christmas 2022.
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Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl
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January 2, 2023 at 4:41 PM
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January 4, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Oh, grUber is such a clever name and the shirt is perfect. I'm sorry to hear that Ella and Christa couldn't join you. And I was chuckling at the story of how much stuff got stuck in the Magnolia tree. :)
What a great wrap up for 2022 Cindy. Thanks for sharing once again. I like your idea for the $20. gift exchange. Very clever and definitely "high tech". (-: Hope your family members are on the mend. It is so disappointing to miss them at the holidays. Best of the New Year wished upon you and your lovely family Cindy. Cheers.
Wonderful post for Christmas. I laughed at the tree dilemma. Such a great story and so much fun to watch the efforts of all the guys. The snacks look great and the creativity that went into those $20 gifts was interesting. Happy new year to you and yours.
How lovely. You-all are sure creative when it comes to coming up with a way to swap gifts, and for a sort of in-the-house treasure hunt. Those photos are intriguing. I really like your t-shirts, though I don't envy you doing all that driving. What a great family gathering you enjoyed. Sadly, I don't have any family pictures to share in my blog posts.
Very fun--right down to the two different photographs. And then the 70th birthday party photograph--sounds like you have fun when you need it! And now I'm wanting captions underneath the scavenger hunt photographs, telling me what they were...like the red sparkly picture.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
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