It is a rare day when all the grands are here at gma and gpas house at the same time so we tried to get a few pics while they were here for the holidays. There was NO snow {which I REALLY wanted for pics} and it was cold and rainy. I had visions of many different poses and it just didn't work. We were lucky to get the ones we did. Underneath all the kiddos there is a gorgeous white bench, but didn't get any of that showing either. I still dream of the pics I wanted to take...hopefully someday. |
We got all the kiddos in the pic except the little guy in the front. His daddy would stick him in the picture time after time... just as we were getting ready to snap the photo. lol |
Too cute and so amusing. We got numbers 6 and 7 mixed up so they will probably be traumatized for the rest of their lives every time they look at these pictures! ha! |
1.Allysha 2.Jon 3.Annika 4.Keira 5.Joshua 6.Ainsley 7.Kanaan 8.Daniel and baby 9 is missing. Her mama was sick so they stayed home. |
What a CUTE bunch of kiddos we have in our family!! I love them all and miss them terribly already. |
Do you grandparent long distance? Our oldest son and his family live about 2 hours from us, our daughter and family live 3 hours from us, but our youngest son who did live about 20 minutes away now lives in North Carolina. 13 or 14 hour drive straight through. It has been a hard adjustment, but we are surviving. PaPa swooped up Ainsley as soon as she got here! The night we said our goodbyes to them was heartbreaking. We had just finished Christmas at my moms and Ainsley was eating more salad {what child eats more salad??} and I was sitting beside her. She looked at me and said in a shaky voice, "Grandma I won't see you for a long time"...I replied, "I know , but we can write and we can call"... yea ,that didn't work. Again, in a shaky little voice "Grandma, I won't see you for a long time"...I picked her up and she started crying. That was it for this grandma. I cried right along with her! She has never done this before so she must be getting old enough to realize exactly what is going on. I held her for awhile and she and I cried together. {in front of lots of other family members}. I finally handed her off to grandpa and she cried some more. She was still crying when they left and when she got to her other grandmas house. Oh the hard knocks of childhood and life. We miss those two little gals to much. We used to be able to just drive over and visit them on the spur of the moment, but not anymore...and life goes on. How do you grandparent long distance? Do you do anything special? I would love to hear about it. Blessings and HAPPY NEW YEAR!! |