Celebrating With Family Part 1 & My Sister’s Birthday!!
Firstly, it’s my sister Susie’s birthday!! It is wonderful to have spent the past few days with her & be able to celebrate together on her birthday. One of the benefits of having your birthday so close to Christmas, Susie! 🙂 I love you & am so thankful that you are my sister! 🥰😊 Fun Fact – Susie & our younger brother Daniel & I all had BIG birthdays this year!! 😊
Once a year, around Thanksgiving or Christmas, we get together with my parents & siblings. It has been 2 years since we have all been together & the 3 that we missed last year (Susie, Daniel & Drew’s wife Sarah) hadn’t met Ellenor yet, so it’s extra special to be together this year, all 18!!
We eat a lot of yummy food (always Giordanos!), play games, do puzzles & laugh a lot. The kids enjoy the time playing with their cousins – Keira & Naomi and Lucas & Levi are only a few months apart.
Usually there is a lot of snow & we’ve gone sledding in years past, but this year it’s brown & rainy! Odd, but at least it makes the travel easier. 🙂 Since we live close to a roller skating rink (& McKaylee works there!), we spend some time there letting the kids skate & work off some energy. 🙂
Lots more tomorrow!! 😊