Friday, December 30, 2016

Thanksgiving to Christmas 2016

Grandma and Grandpa took Madelyn to the Muskegon Museum of Art
to see all of their Christmas Tree decorations.
 Grandma and Grandpa took Mason out to Hoffmaster State Park in late November and he enjoyed hiking along the fallen trees.
 Mason had a great time playing in the waves. While the water was not
warm, he did not mind and the air temperature was in the upper 60s. We
really had a warm fall in Muskegon.
Then the next morning it was snowing and the highs were in the 20s. What a switch! 
Grandma visited Madelyn's pre-school class for their Thanksgiving party.
Look at these pilgrims!
We traveled to western Illinois to see Great Grandma Donna. Here
Madelyn rides the cart up to the room in Macomb.
 Madelyn camps out with the Kraft cousins in one of the motel rooms.
 One of the highlights of visiting Uncle Randy and Aunt Janice's Mower Shop is playing with
the kitty also named Mower.
 This is what we get when we ask the grandkids to smile...........
 Boy cousins playing a Lego game that Uncle Nick invented.
 Mason and Caleb in some deep discussion while playing with Mower.
Baby girl trying out the shifting on a new mower.
 We drove over to the Kendrick farm in eastern Illinois and Madelyn bent
over to let Stella slap her bottom with her tail.
The three three-year-old cousins at the farm. Madelyn, Nathan, and Natalie.
 Madelyn went to lunch with Grandpa Dave and showed him how to "color"
the nuggets box with catsup using a French fry as a brush......
Using Lego Duplo figures as finger puppets.

 More snowflake help in the woodshop. Mae must have her hand on her
boy's head.............She wore the blue gloves like a clothing accessary.
 Look at all the reindeer!
It was a Lego Minecraft Christmas for Mason.
 Mason bowled with Grandpa Dave and Daravia a couple times over the holidays and Mason
did real well one game bowling a 129 with a strike and 5 spares.