We woke up this morning to new snow on the ground and more falling. We debated whether we were going to brave the storm but decided to go ahead and see just how bad the roads were. We knew we could always turn back. Our first stop was Maren's. We got there about 9:45. The roads were horrible but if you took your time, they were okay. Maren's family was all up and from the looks of things they had a merry Christmas. Santa was good to them. Because of the snow, Greg had to go to work early that morning so we didn't get to see him. Maren and the kids were getting ready to go over to Sylvia and Dan's home for brunch so Neal and I left there about 10:30 and headed toward Jeff and Mindy's. I called Mindy and she seemed a bit frustrated. I don't know the whole story but from what I could gather, her family ended up wanted her to host the brunch at her home instead of going over to her mom's, which is the tradition. Mindy was trying to get ready for that event and so I asked her if she would prefer if we didn't barge in on an already large group descending on her place and she seemed happy that I recognized her stress. So we skipped that stop and went to Lyndsy and James home to see what Santa had left their little family. Again, it was quite a haul. Lots of toys and fun stuff for the kids and James and Lyndsy faired well themselves. James informed Neal that Lyndsy had given him a home brewery for making beer. Neal made some comment, I didn't bother to respond. When we left and got in the car we both busted up laughing. I think laughing at the absurdity of the gift and James making sure we knew about it and trying to cover up the saddness we really felt at how far they have withdrawn from the gospel and for some reason found it necessary to throw that in our face yet again.
But, we shook that news off and merrily headed our way out to Stansbury. On the way, we stopped at a Starbucks and got some hot chocolate and for Neal to make a pit stop! By this time the roads were pretty much cleared and just a few flakes of snow falling. Early afternoon found us pulling up in front of Jeff and Annies. Jeff was out shoveling the driveway. The kids were happy to see us and were waiting for us to show us what they got and to play games. Both of which we did.
Here are a few more pictures. This one of the boys building their Legos.
This was the main Christmas that we gave to each family with their names on it. This one if of all the grandchildren. Lynda Ann helped me do all of them. We spent one whole day working on them. Not an easy project and I couldn't have done them with out Annie's expert help. It was this project that generated her project of doing the quilt.
Some time ago, Tucker found this counted cross stitch and asked me to do it for him. He also wanted me to put the saying, "Do Not Quit" along the bottom. I spent every extra moment that I had hoping to get this done for Christmas. Actually the hardest part was figuring out the lettering and trying to make the "Q" look like a que ball. I must have sewn, unpicked, sewn and unpicked that crazy "Q" a dozen times until Neal and I felt like it was as close as I could get it. Neal took it to get ir framed, again hoping that it would be done in time for Christmas. We didn't get it back until the Monday before Christmas and Neal put it in mail that afternoon with no promise from the post office that he would get it by Christmas Eve. We were thrilled when we got this picture Christmas morning and even more happy that Tucker was pleased with it.
Jamie sent me this next picture telling me that she was very happy with the gum balls. It has almost become a tradition to send her gum balls for Christmas and for her birthday.
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