Merry Christmas to All

We are enjoying 8 wonderful days in Denver visiting Amy and Tim, Lisa and Betty and of course our sweet grands, Mark and Lilly. It is going to be a white Christmas here. We hope it is a joyous day for everyone....
Here are some pictures....
Lilly is quite expressive and she has mastered rolling over since we arrived- she is so fun to watch....

We now have three food traditions to accomplish during Christmas-First is making Great Grandmother Matter's tie-knot cinnamon rolls. Here is Mark gettng to punch down the dough...

and the assembly line......

and the final product

we also made tamales....

and decorated sugar cookies

here are Mark and Lilly in their matching Christmas morning sleepers...

Lisa's present from Betty was a tool box....

On Christmas afternoon Grandma and Tim took Mark sledding. He loved the ride down the hill...

and - he walked back up the hill on his own two feet while holding grandma's hand....

First snow in Kettle Falls

Longview Visit

We were in Longview in early December to the induction of Kurt's high school football team into the local sports Hall of Fame. Here are some scenes from our visit.

We always try to visit Kurt's Aunt Dolly when we go to Longview- she will be 90 next year and she is doing great....

Then we made a drive-by of Kurt's childhood home...

At the induction ceremony we met Kurt's junior high basketball coach....

We also visited with several dozen of the team mates- but the only picture taken by us was Kurt and Steve Vogel. These two 6'7"er's made up the two ends of their football team that went undefeated for a season and a half.