We just love it when one of our kids and their families come to visit. This weekend we had Jim's 4th child - Josh and his wife Tringle with their kids- Kyriahna-12, Jolanna-11 (this month), Kaldon-9, Malaya-7, and Taron-6 (this month). They were here to participate in a Karate tournament in Meridian on Friday and Saturday. So after they were competing Friday, they came out here to sleep and to visit. The first thing the youngest said to me was, "we haven't seen you in a long, long, time, Gramma"--- "I know," I said- "the last time was for Eliza's baptism in July. And boy has Grampa & Gramma been missing you all," Then Malaya said it takes "FOREVER" to get here... about an hour. I laughed cause it is actually about 4 hours from their house. We had a lot of fun! Friday night the kids and I hung out playing and laughing. Malaya and Taron found a toy guitar and toy rhythm player upstairs along with a big plastic microphone. So we spent about an hour playing like we were a rock-n-roll band. Jolanna found my flickering reindeer headband and put it on and joined the band. Grampa took pictures of us. I tried to get a video of the kids playing, but Jolanna got a little shy and very quietly was singing... "bop" "bop" "bop" We thought we were hilarious!
We also celebrated (just a bit early) Jolanna and Taron's October birthdays. Jolanna cracked me up- she got frustrated trying to gently pull the tape off the box and when she couldn't get it, she resorted to biting it off... I'm all..."just rip it open!".. he he. Taron ripped his open immediately!
I have once again put together collages cause it's too hard to just pick a couple of pictures...even with the collages I only use a fraction of what I take.... so I try to put a variety together to capture the moment and the atmosphere of each visit or event. I have to say this time, my favorite collage has to be the rock-n-roll collage of pictures. We were having a blast. Kaldon and Kyriahna were NOT enjoying the noise..er...I mean the music we were making. I had to chase them to try to get them to participate and all they did was cover their ears and duck away from us. They wouldn't join us for all our pleading. ha ha ha!
Here's the little video I was talking about!
I am so grateful that Josh and his family came to visit. It means so much to Jim- to both of us-since Jim can't travel much at all. He worries all the time about his family. I know that his prayers were answered this weekend indeed! I haven't seen Jim so happy and excited for a long time.
Posted once again with gratitude and joy.... by a rock-n-rollin' Gramma!
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