OUR WHIRLWIND CHRISTMAS WEEKEND

We're home....happy, but EXHAUSTED!

It was a true whirlwind of a trip. We got to see all of our children and grandchildren and almost everyone in my family. How blessed I feel!

Here's a bit of our weekend...in no particular order.
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Three of our grandchildren (Eric and Angela's) were in a Family Theatre production called "A Night of Children's Plays". There were 7 different short plays and 6 of them were written by children.

Here's a photo of the choir members. Our granddaughters were adorable. Kaley Grace is in the black dress and Sydney Anne is in the center with the white shirt and pigtails.

Here's a short video. I think they sounded pretty darn good!



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In "The Tale of the Lost Sheep" our grandson, Landon, plays the wolf.

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In "Christmas Animals", Landon played a dog...he's the one with the long ears in the black outfit.

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This was my favorite. In "The Further Adventures of Zip the Magic Dragon: Zip Meets Indiana Bones", Landon played another dog - Indiana Bones (instead of Indiana Jones)...how cute is that?! These photos didn't turn out that great because of the lighting. Darn...you can't see how cute he looks with his long doggy ears and his Indiana Jones hat.

I didn't get a photo of it, but it was really cute to see all the "actors" walk around and sign autographs after the play. Of course, I now have my autographed program in with my keepsakes.

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It was a great Saturday for our son's Finger Football game. Zelosport held a Finger Football tournament at Peachtree Mall in Columbus right outside Macy's entrance. There were 32 tables of players and lots of excitement.

Here's Eric showing the "check" to be presented to the winner.

Eric and George before the games begin.

As you can tell from the photos, everyone was having fun....girls, guys, every age.

The tournament was covered by CNN and the local news. If I find out when it will be shown on CNN, I'll let you know.

Check out all the fun games by clicking here.

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I stopped by to visit Bet aka "Other Mother". She was thrilled with her Christmas gift. She loves pink flamingos and she loved the t-shirt I found on our New England trip. You won't believe her Christmas decorations. I took lots of photos, but I don't have enough time to show them tonight. I'll do a separate post later.

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Mom's annual family Christmas party was so much fun, but CHAOTIC - BIG TIME!

There was over 40 of us. I had my camera, but it seemed my hands were always full of something...gifts, food, a drink, or a grandchild! LOL

Here's Mom passing out her stockings. Yes, she does one for every single one of us.

Here's just one photo of part of the crowd. See George there in the middle laughing at me even trying to take a photo in the middle of the chaos. There were people EVERYWHERE!!! Most of the little ones were on the floor between George and me. Plus there was more standing in the kitchen. Chaos...pure chaos. And loud too.

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I must admit it was a little disappointing for George and I that we couldn't have all our children and grandchildren together for breakfast or lunch like we did last year, but we just couldn't make it work out with everyone's schedule this year. So....we celebrated with each individual family at one time or another during our whirlwind trip.

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I didn't get photos of when we opened stockings and gifts with Kim and Mike and our 3 oldest grandchildren yesterday...too much going on.

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Last night after Mom's party we got together with George and Jan and the kids. Here's Dalton, Karrigan and Carson opening the stockings we filled for them. Karrigan was so excited this year.

This morning we celebrated with Eric and Angela and the kids at their house. Angela made a wonderful big breakfast for us.

It was fun watching Sydney Anne, Kaley Grace and Landon open their stockings and gifts from us.

We're tired, but oh so blessed! Thank you Lord for our family.

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Speaking of how tired I am...I'm off to bed. I've got tennis in the morning and then my Mom and Sherry arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon. We're so happy that they will be here for the Holidays.

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Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas hugs and kisses,
Kat