Adam, Tonya, & Rachel: Decorating Aunt Bren's Tree

To end up our Thanksgiving holiday, we always go to Aunt Bren's house and decorate her Christmas tree. This has been a tradition for as long as I can remember. Aunt Bren doesn't have any kids, but in reality, we're all just like her kids. She'd do anything for us...always has and always will I'm sure:o) She makes her signature spaghetti and then we're off to start the decorating...

Someone (who shall remain nameless) thought it would be a great idea to get a picture of all the great grandkids to give to Great Pa for Christmas...what were they thinking! We had an 8 month old, a 14 month old, a 2 year old, and a 5 1/2 year old...do you think they all looked at the camera and smiled all at the same time?!?!? Of course not! Maybe Dana got one good pic amid all the chaos! This is the best one we got and it's not so great!

Laura laying on Duke...she was really sleepy...

Nana and the girls...

A McD family pic...

Nana and all the kiddos...

...and then, the chaos began...glad we got one good pic before they all started going their own ways:o)

Rachel was all pooped out after the weekend of festivities. Here she is sleeping on Adam at Nana's. We went back to her house to watch Cade & Laura after decorating the tree at Bren's. Mom had Christmas play practice at church and Donnie & Christy were in Chicago. We didn't figure she'd get much Christmas play practiced with those two running around...so we volunteered to watch them. Wow! Watching three kids under the age of 2 1/2 is a hard day's work!...but we loved every minute of it!