December 2022

The next 8 photos are from "Jackson's Day Out".

He and his schoolmates built gingerbread houses then went shopping!

Nice result!

All gifts need a gift bag

The outing was funded by the money they made from their coffee cart.

The dogs might appreciate some Christmas joy!

Meanwhile, Theo takes advantage of the many boxes available

Jackson and Theo

Getting ready

Star Wars night at the JMU basketball game

Theo likes a good Christmas tree!

Lynsey and Grace

This year's Christmas card

Nice views from Spain, courtesy of Hannah

Nice views from home

Otterly cute

My office decorations were inspired by Charlie Brown.

We did some puppy sitting for Grace and Josh

New puppy Remi (short for Remington)

Bernedoodle

Teddy (labradoodle)

Abe (goldendoodle)

Trying out some new iPhone lenses Grace gave me.

Hannah's Christmas decor

Samuel and the Youth Choir

Luke and the Chancel Choir

I know, right

Hannah and Three Spanish Wiseguys

James with Theo

We were delighted to have Mirva and James home for a few days.

Theo identifies an ornament with his mother's picture on it

Theo, with Uncle Luke

Always a joy to add leaves to the dining room table

Luke and Grace

Samuel and Noah

Ryan and Josh

Crafting Table

Lucy, Sophie, Annabelle, Lily

Hannah built a tiny snowman

#spanishbirthday

Who's that getting into the cookie jar?

I needed a cookie. I'm Santa's helper.

Luke celebrates 26 years (and misses Hannah)

Hannah celebrates 26 years (and misses Luke)

The Neals celebrated Christmas in their new log cabin in Missouri

Remi came to visit his doggie cousins

Christmas morning and Josh is a kid at heart!

James, Mirva, Annabelle, Grace (and Remi)

Lucy

The Smiths (with matching pajamas)

Time to build some gingerbread houses...

Lily and Lucy were a team

Mirva and Annabelle also

Sophie flew solo

Jacob built his house a bit too close to the Gingerbread Fault Line

Grace and Josh made stained glass windows for their house by crushing Jolly Ranchers

and baking the pieces to melt the candy into the windows. Pretty cool actually

Lynsey decorated a Christmas sweater cookie and repurposed a Ninja cookie

into a Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer cookie.

Lily, Lucy

James

Ryan, Samuel

Mirva, Annabelle

Mama Martha made hats for everyone!

Lily liked her hat and her new boots!

Hannah, still in Spain

Getting ready for a fun but messy project

Did someone say "fun but messy"?

Tea at sunset in Grenada

Meanwhile, back in Spain...