Visit with Mimi, Papa, and Aunt - What's-her-name?

My kiddos just love their Mimi and Papa!

So happy together - but not all happy to be taking pictures! :)

Handsome Papa - can't you just see the Call charm!

Bowen was basically Aunt Emily's shadow! However, he had some trouble remembering her name!

He still LOVES her - and has plans to live with her when she is old. He said they would live in a RV and park in movie theater parking lots every night and go see a movie. He will be a FOX news man during the day!

He really loves her, just doesn't know her name half the time!

Kate Kate chilling out!

Clair on her Papa's knee! They are practically twins! Call genes here for sure!

My wonderful parents! Thanks for coming mom and dad! We LOVED having you!

The day after they left Kate came downstairs and said, "Mom, I miss mimi and papa and Aunt Emily! My room smells just like mimi and makes me miss them more!"

Have to have the silly photo - of course!

Now it's just the five of us! I really miss you guys being here! It was fun! Thank you so much for coming! Love ya mucho mucho!

Christmas Morning

My sweet, sleepy but excited kiddos waiting to go downstairs to see what Santa brought them! It was a good Christmas and the kids must have made the nice list, because they got what they asked for!

Quilting @ Christmas

So I got this bright idea that the Young Women should come over and we should tie a quilt. How was Grandma ever so patient teaching me? We got the quilt done, but it wasn't easy and it didn't go as smoothly as I'd hoped. I have to say that I missed having Grandma guide me in getting the quilt ready. I don't think it was really up to par with the way Grandma did it.





I have to say that getting out that quilt frame made me a little teary...thinking about Grandma. I had lots of good times quilting with her.

Christmas Traditions

It's that time of year again. We did our annual Gingerbread construction night. The boys did a train and the girls did a house. As always it was great fun, but we've learned that papa is the best at putting the things together. I was in charge of putting the house together and it kept falling apart. At the end of the night, as I was taking pictures of the final products, I declared the girls as the "winners!" Jack completely melted down. Yes, he is that competitive. I had to then declare the boys the winner of the gingerbread trains. That made him happy. We've decided that next year we are using graham crackers and everyone is doing there own and we will make a real competition of it. :)