Above is our grandson,Garrett, who just turned 11 in November.
We spent the afternoon with the family at a nearby community park taking a walk around the park, the kids played hide and seek and climbed on rocks. After we left the park we went back to their house and had ice cream and cake. Above are Garrett and his sister Isabella.
Picture of Lee, our son, David, his wife, Erica, at the community park.
Hide and seek
Those of you who have followed our blog know that I have been painting up a storm. I've got all the rooms in the house repainted now. This is a picture of our den just updated in a nice teal and a new sofa.
Our
granddaughter, Carissa, does competitive cheering. It is
extremely athletic and one must be a
gymnast to handle the demand of the tricks.
Can you imagine????
Carissa and her good friend taking a well earned break after their routine. Carissa is on the right.
Several days after Thanksgiving we got together at my house for breakfast with my brother and his family.
It was wonderful to catch up with my niece, Monica. She lives in New York City and I don't get to see near enough of her.
This is my grand nephew, Simon, in his really cool hat.
Above are Davis and Donna Perry our good friends and neighbors with our grand daughter,
Hollyn.
This is
Joslyn and Mark, neighbors here on the farm. They came up to our house the evening after Thanksgiving and we celebrated Mark's 30
th birthday with them.
This is
Hollyn. She is 12 now and a real sweetheart. She spent Thanksgiving vacation with Nana and Papa and we totally enjoyed having her.
Our daughter, Suzanne, with Carissa and
Hollyn.
This is Thanksgiving day. We ended up with 22 for dinner. Eleven ages 18 and under. Two young adults and nine adults. Amazing to look around the room and realize that the two of you are responsible for this group of people being here.
After a huge dinner Papa took all the kids out for a night time hay ride. The evening ended with everyone watching Peter Sellers and the Pink Panther, one of our family's favorites.
The over flow room
Our daughter, Suzanne, our son, Brandon, and our
granddaughter,
Hollyn. Looks like a deep conversation, doesn't it??
Hollyn and Nicky are really good buddies.
This is Monica, my niece, and her friend Alex. This was the first time we got to meet Alex and I thoroughly enjoyed talking with him.
Monica and Alex
Don't they make a handsome couple??????
So many holiday functions to attend. Above are my good friends Lauree and Deb getting the bread ready for our Focus group Christmas dinner.
After dinner we exchanged gifts.
We were over at our son Dave's house and their dog went out to play in the snow with the kids. This is what Lilly looked like when she came back in. I told the kids that the best thing to do is get off what you can and them use the hair dryer to get off the rest.
This is Isabella and her good friend Shanon.
This is Nicky's best girlfriend, Zoe. She comes out to the farm often to play with him.
This is our granddaughter, Hollyn the night of her Christmas music concert. Isn't she beautiful?
Hollyn playing her cello.
Hollyn is in the far right hand corner.
After the string concert, Hollyn was in the choir portion of the program. 
She is playing the bells in this photo.
Prior to the concert we all had dinner together at our daughter Suzanne's. In this photo above is a picture of Suannne and Hollyn't two brothers there to support her, Troy and Keenan.
Here is our princess at the end of the concert.
Nicky having fun in our first snowfall the weekend prior to Christmas. We were lucky we only got about 6-7 inches of snow.
Nicky turned 5 on Dec. 20th. Here he is with his birthday toy.
We made sure to put out plenty of food for our feathered friends. We love watching them at the bird feeder just outside our kitchen window.
Here's Lee frantically trying to keep our roads open so we can get the RV out on Dec. 27th.
