Christmas at Stone

Sean's grandparents invited us to their place the Saturday before Christmas to celebrate with them. The gals have been asking for months if we could have a sleepover at their place so we made arrangements to stay out there Friday night. The gals and I had all had a nasty cold and cough, but we were feeling better. We thought Sean had steered clear of it, but it hit him hard on Friday- he came home and went to bed and the gals and I headed out to Stone. As usual grandma and grandpa took very good care of us. Gracie Kaye (the Kaye in her name comes from Sean's grandpa Kay) attached herself to grandpa's side. I think he was exhausted by the time we left- she wouldn't do anything unless grandpa did it with her- she even informed grandma that she was old and grandpa was fun. I am glad that grandma laughed over that instead of being completely offended!! Gracie doesn't mix any words! Sean was feeling well enough to come out on Saturday with Keith and Shawna. The gals had been asking since we got there on Friday if they could open presents- we held them off as long as we could, but they finally got to open them. Grandpa and grandma totally spoiled the gals. Brooklyn got a gymnast doll she has wanted, Gracie got Brave and a game for her DS, and Ella got a fun bath toy, some animals for her zoo, and some boots. We got stocked up with some good food storage and an awesome pizza cutter that grandpa made for us.

Grandma and grandpa have everything! Sean has a friend who has started making pens out of wood- they are really cool. Sean got some pieces of wood from the ranch and David made grandma a pen and grandpa a knife from it. They loved them! It was fun to do something different for them that they loved!

They had gotten this fun Gingerbread house for the kids to do. It ended being chocolate- Brooklyn and Ali had a lot of fun decorating it- that is when Brooklyn let Ali actually put anything on it.

The finished house with Jingles the Elf

A trip to Stone when there is snow just isn't the same without playing in the snow! Everyone had lots of fun. Brooklyn fell on the ice and hit her head. (She woke up during the night with a terrible headache- migraine and throwing up. It didn't dawn on us until later in the afternoon that she had hit her head and most likely had a concussion. My brother Brett and sis-in-law Sher looked her over and we decided that she was ok so we didn't end up taking her to the doctor.)

Like I said- Gracie planted herself on grandpa- after playing in the snow they were both so tired and had a little snooze together. It was the cutest thing. (This happened while we were decorating the Gingerbread/chocolate house so Gracie didn't help out.)

And to finish the day off we threw the kiddos in the tub. This tub hadn't been used in years. The girls sure had fun playing mermaids. (We missed Sean's sister Chantel her and her family with home sick with Strep throat- we are thankful they didn't share it with us.) And as always when we pull out the gals already start asking when we can come again- I think it might take grandma and grandpa awhile to recover from us!!