Family Time

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We only had three days where the whole family was around, so we tried to make the most of them. The first thing that we did on Monday was to take family pictures. I don't have a single picture of that (the actual photographer was taking those pictures...) but I do have pictures of the lunch that we all went to afterwards.

Gabe was rather board and decided to practice his funny faces.

Meanwhile, Bella was having fun at the other end of the table making silly snapchat videos with her aunts and uncles...

After a low key afternoon, we all bundled up to watch the finals of the Family Ping Pong Tournament. Gramps and Seth had borrowed a table for the occasion. We take ping pong very seriously in our family...



Seth was the champion yet again. He has now won it for the last three championships. I think that Matt and Nathan are going to need to practice some more so that we have a new champion next time...

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Tuesday morning, the boys all went golfing, so us ladies (and the two little boys) went out for tea.


  



I think the two little boys were wishing they could be golfing...



We got to meet the Queen!

Afterwards, we walked around town for a little while. Bella couldn't find Santa, but she did find this funny reindeer...

Plus, both of the boys got Auntie time.


Tuesday afternoon Gabe started to not feel very well, which he's still fighting with a week later. Unfortunately that meant that he wasn't feeling well when he got to hang out with Bryson and Bryson's Grandma for the evening. I felt a little badly about that, but he handled it really well and went to bed nicely for her. That meant that the rest of us got to go to hear Manheim Steamroller in concert, which was pretty amazing. We all got tickets as Christmas presents from Gram and Gramps.

Even though this has nothing to do with the rest of this post, it seems like a good way to end it. How cute is my nephew???


 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 

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