A Few Xmas Photos

Christmas at Preston & Shalea's was similar to Thanksgiving as far as beating the bad weather. Saturday was a very mild day, albeit quite foggy.

I didn't take a lot of pictures and missed getting ones of everyone but my camera always finds the young ones.

Kathryn and Henri. He is old enough to verbalize that he does not want his picture taken. "No" everytime I pointed the camera his way.

He has changed quite a bit since July. Still just as cute though.

Deise's 'ugly Xmas sweater' suggests that she is a 'repeat offender'.

IMO, the only crime she is guilty of is bringing way too many goodies to entice us. This girl does like to cook and bake.

Her oreo cookie fluff was stupendously rich, aka, yummy, with almost zero calories, I'm sure. 😋

We came home with some of her homemade peanut clusters and chocolate covered pretzels.

Louis has also changed. It's crazy how quickly they grow up. 

The nice part is that he is not as shy with me as he was.

Unlike his little brother, Louis willingly posed for a picture.

Bud and the boys - Travis (Kathryn's husband), our grandson, Ki, and our newest grandson, Zach (Deise's husband).

The bulbs on his Xmas sweater not only lit up they blinked off and on.

There were many presents under the tree but it didn't take long to hand them out and see them opened, though it was impossible to see everything that everyone received.

Preston watched as Ayden and Katherine opened gifts before opening his.

Unfortunately Dominique had to work so she and Ian weren't able to there.

The boys and their transformers was the last picture I took. Left to right, Greyson, Louis and Ayden. The older boys get along very well with their younger cousin. Seeing, being with them, is always a delight. I got a goodbye hug from each one of them. 

Back to the "beating the bad weather just like Thanksgiving" - the weather forecasters were warning of the cold, snow and high winds moving in, so instead of staying through Sunday as planned, Deise and Zach headed back east to Davenport and Kathryn, Travis and the boys headed north to Minnesota. It was a good thing they did because by Sunday I-35 in northern Iowa was closed. 

Our weather yesterday started out with rain, changing to sleet, changing to snow, with very high wind gusts and bitter cold. This was the sunset photo I took last evening - through the window - no way was I going outside.