Christmas Eve 2022

A few notes on the Christmas card above:

• center picture at the top - Ruth & Clem and their paper chain representing the days left till the arrival of "GrandShaw and Granny" last September. This was taken when they had to add seven links because GrandShaw had come down with Covid.
• center pic at the bottom - the girls loved visiting with their Aunt Lil at her home in Decatur. Here they roll around the front lawn.
• center pic at left the three sisters sit on a mossy bank of the trail at Sloppy Floyd State Park.
• center pic at the right - Aunt Lil & Jordan sport their Chip & Dale hats.
• bottom left - the girls loved playing on the Little Tikes playlet on our big side porch - one of the best 15 bucks I ever spent.
• bottom right - Clem agrees to pose with the Courtin' Frog in our Backyard Football
• center - Ruth climbing on a playground. These girls explore multiple playgrounds wherever they travel.
• top right - the girls welcome their Dad to Georgia in our Atlanta AirBNB

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Brannon & John and the girls called us on Christmas Eve to 

let us share with them as the girls opened one present early.

Suzie is into throwing kisses and waving.

She offered us a bite of a "cookie".

The girls carefully tend to a sheet of "cookies" with dad's help.

The kit comes with cookie sheet, cookie "dough" to "slice" and "cut'

These girls have gotten much more than their parents' money's worth from their "nugget" set of construction cushions. (Stay tuned for Christmas morning's surprises for them@!)

Sisters

Excited over the new cookie toys

Ruthie offers a bite of "cookie"

Joseph (Jordan Friedman), Mary (Lillian Shaw) Angels (R-L Sheila Shaw, Holly Bettler, Stacy Harris, Caroline) Shepherds (Don Bettler, ??) Wise Men (Tom Brown, Tom Harris, ?? Harris,  Harris SIL)

"Mary & Joseph" Lillian & Jordan. ...

The live nativity scene has been a tradition at Trinity United Church since 1957. I first stood it it during the 1962 Christmas season.

After we got home we lit a menorah and Jordan, who has a very nice voice, sang a couple of Hanukkah blessings for us.

We used a smaller tree this year. The carol era are from mama Shaw's collection of forties and fifties decorations.