Pete’s parents hanging out with a couple of grandkids | Christmas Eve at LWUMC | The boys help with the ushering duties, handing out bulletins | The stockings were hung with care (no fireplace or mantel though) | Looks like Santa’s done his delivery | Angel Choir and Joyful Noises provide music for the Christmas morning service | Peapod helps Innaias with Twilighty the Lady Bug |
Flynn and Guinness work on an efficient present distribution strategy | Looking for the next thing to unwrap | Twilighty and Innaias are fast friends | Debra with a new suspense series | An embarrassment of riches | Brown Bear and Monkey, the stuffy pillows, have been much-loved by Guinness and Flynn, but now they have some competition | Guinness and his life-sized Saint Bernard pillow |
Flynn got a lion and Innaias, a giant tiger | Debra finally has some really good, strong cookie sheets (and they still fit in our oven too!) | Helping Innaias with his new frog-tossing game | Guinness and his new peregrine falcon, for his nature name | Innaias’s nature name is Snail, and here’s his snail | Innaias really loves his new pullover | Granny Dani is hanging in there, but Peapod takes a break |
Flynn practices flying his new helicopter | The helicopter is impressively well-designed, easy to fly and lots of fun | It does require some finesse though…Guinness works on his controller skills | There’s not a lot of space to fly around, but it hovers very well | Innaias goggles | The kids all got kid-sized jump ropes | Flynn practices his jumping |
Jumping with helpers | Debra takes a turn | Showing off the new knees! | Guinness working hard | Time to break open some rocks | We don’t really have the right tools, but since when did that ever matter? ☺ | Flynn and Guinness are learning knife handling skills at Wilderness Awareness School |