So far behind!

Is it too late to post about New Years?  My Grandma Pearlie's birthday is on New Years Eve, so we took the kids to her house and brought her a cake.  Hopefully my kids didn't completely ruin her day.  Let's see, we got a flat tire on the way to her house, Sean said some swear words he heard me say in the car as I realized I had a flat.  Then Kate threw a full blown temper tantrum over not being able to give Grandma Hattie's present.  I get the worst mom award for that day.  Sorry Grandma, maybe some day you'll forget what Sean said in your kitchen...but probably not.

Got some noise makers for the little noise makers.

Randy put on a pretty sweet firework show in the snow.

They seem to always play really well together about the day before they have to go.

BFFs for life.

Don and Jinx stayed over Christmas break too.  The kids love playing with Grandma Jinx.  She really is so much fun!

She always has some contraption that she's invented.  This time it was a hands free umbrella.  She is always helping Don up and down stairs and in and out of doors, and since it rains almost every day in Portland, she came up with this genius hat.  All you need is a chinese hat, some plastic, and some Christmas ribbon, and voila!