HAPPY
NEW
YEAR!!!!!
for those of you who do not know about mother goose, here it is...grandma donna (my mom)has a party on new years eve for all of her grand kids. (all grand daughters!!!) it is great because it lets the parents enjoy the evening too!!! any way...the girls have pizza and watch movies and in the morning the floor is covered with feathers that they immedietly pick up. mother goose comes in the night, (only to grandma donna's house) and leaves a lot of goodies. t-shirts, hats, jewelry, candy, fruit, lip gloss, etc. this year was 'hannah montana'. you guessed it...everything was hannah montana. bless grandma donna, she had 5 girls, charlie (11), madison (11), shantel (9), hali (6) and kenadee (4). my brother and his wife were there to help out, (i was not...i did my mother goose duty for the last 2 years...i spent the evening with my husband!!!) everything was going well until kenadee decided to not sleep until 12:30!!! (last year she didn't sleep and we went home at 3 am!!!) ohhhh it gets better...she then woke up at 1:30 and woke up grandma too. she went back to bed. grandma wakes up at 3 am to check on kenadee and she is not in bed...she is down stairs picking up feathers!!!!!! she tells grandma "i just couldn't help it, the feathers are so beautiful". again grandma puts her back in bed. she then wakes up at 4 and at 5!!! and does not go back to bed!!! well the girls found their goodies from mother goose and loved it!!! grandma donna was exhausted!!! and so was kenadee.
mike and i had a great time with family and friends at dave and christine's. we talked to grandma at 10 pm and she said kenadee was going to bed!!! we didn't worry the rest of the night!!! we figured grandma got kenadee to bed....we were mistaken. mike and i have not spent new years together for 2 years...it was a fun night of playing games and ringing in the new year.
christine...dave...top of jim's head...
mike...keri...darren...judd...jill...heather
when we got to grandmas kenadee was crying, not necessarily because she only got 2 hours of sleep but because madison burned her ear with the flat iron...ouch!!! i did get a traditional stair picture of the girls in their matching t-shirts and hats...notice kenadee!
kenadee...madison...charlie
hali...shantel
needless to say it was a very very long day.
kenadee fell asleep on the way home at 6 pm
but woke up and would not go back to sleep...
we put her to bed at 8:30 and she finally
fell asleep at 10!!!
here she is peacefully sleeping..finally.
hope you all had a great new years CELEBRATION.
MAY WE ALL
HAVE GREAT
2009!!!
4 comments:
What a fantastic tradition! I guess you are raising a little party animal.
Thanks for the note. The bad thing about my moves nowadays is once they start they don't stop!
I don't remember tacos at Sundance, I must have missed out on something. Yes I do remember, you hated skiing. You could do it! The biggest thing about having fun skiing is being warm...if you are not comfortable then the day is shot. I wonder if that was a little of why you didn't like it. But hey, at least you had tacos. Sundance is completely different now then it was back then. There is only one lift at the base and the lodge is in a new location too. But the skiing is tons of fun! I miss you gal!
Oh, your mom is such a great grandma! And what a fun tradition for your girls. I'm so glad she's not working now and can just focus on being a grandma to her little brood. And of course, so glad you had a great evening...
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