Gathering
Family holidays are full of activities – so full that I am splitting this into two posts (gift opening is here). Today some of us hit the ski slopes while the rest took the younger kids to the aquarium. Those are pictures to post another time… Yesterday we cozied up at home, riding horses, making plaster handprints, playing games, snuggling kids.
My younger sister’s friend (a kindergarten teacher) made plaster handprints for all the little ones. We missed my older sister’s family for this.
memories in plaster
And then she took this awesome picture with her new camera, and gave me permission to post it:
handprints on the stairs (taken by above friend)
Snuggles:
brother's beautiful family
pro at getting his picture taken
a pink Christmas for her
Horseback rides were next:
like old friends
his favorite picture
Yes, we have miniature goats. They keep the horses company. And I admit… I like them. 🙂
seriously funny animals
Lots of games… An explanation of the one below: Which one word, placed before or after each of the four listed words, makes each phrase make sense? (E.g., man, melting, shoe, storm all go with snow: snowman, melting snow, snowshoe, snow storm.) How about these:
1) thumb, boy, Uncle, cat
2) shirt, cat, gate, wind
3) horse, side, worthy, Red
4) stop, camel, bone, bare
game on the go
There were a multitude of other activities that were un-photographed or that will stay in the family album: reading the Christmas story, late-night laughs, a hike to a gold mine, playing piano. My brother suggested a shoe pile picture… we missed your shoes in the pile:
missing the rest of our family
I hope you enjoyed your gatherings, too, wherever they were.
