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Libby Lu

Part of the kid’s Christmas presents from Gram & Pop were gift certificates. The boys got gift certificates to GameStop, and they went with Pop Mike. The girls got certificates to both Build A Bear and Libby Lu in the mall. They went with Grandma and had a heck of a time. Natalie, Emily, Abby, [...]

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Xmas Morning

Christmas was a little hectic this year because Grandmom Phil got the flu during Christmas week and we tried to adjust our plans around her health. Santa came to our house just as we had expected, but in a bit of a twist, he also left a few things at Grandmom Phil’s house. He must [...]

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Xmas Eve

As we do every Xmas Eve, we got together with the Wynne Family. For the first time, we celebrated in Gram & Pop’s brand new house. The entire family was there, Mike and Dot & Erin, Michael, & Emily, Tom & Carol with Nate and Natalie, Aaron & Kate with Hannah, and Jim & Kim [...]

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New York City

We were very fortunate to have Grandmom Phil take us on a trip to New York City, December 18-20th. The trip included a train ride up and back (which Brett really enjoyed) and a few days in the city.

The first attraction we hit was the Build-A-Bear Workshop on 5th Avenue. Abby had been studying on [...]

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Gift exchange at Gradmom Phil’s

Erin & Dorsey came up to visit the week before Christmas since they were staying home in Virginia Beach for Christmas. We had quite a crowd, with my group, Grandmom Phil, Erin, Dorsey, Lucas, Noor, Aunt Kate, Uncle Casey, Adrianna and Alexandra.

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Santa at the Varani’s

Guess who came to visit the Varani’s when we over to visit?

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Snow Day

Here are some pictures from our snow day on December 9th. We got around 6-8″ of snow and school was cancelled for the kids. Dad still had to make his way into work. Oh well!!

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Christmas Parties

Ho, ho, ho, the party season has begun.  This weekend we had two separate parties, both on Saturday.  First, we went to a Wynne family get together.  Jean’s cousin Bill Wynne had the party at his house in Harleysville.  It was Jean’s dad’s brother and sister, and all of their immediate [...]

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Firewood

My pet project for the week was firewood.  Mom had a couple of trees cut down in the spring, and my brother-in-law Chris and I finally went to work on it this week.  I played hookie Wednesday, and Chris and I got together to split some wood.  Chris borrowed his brother’s splitter, [...]

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Friday Night

Jake had his first basketball scrimmage on Friday night at PVMS West.  For those of you who attend Perk Valley, they now have built a 2nd Middle School on Rt. 73 in Zieglersville.  The school was georgeous, and it’s hard to believe that when I attended, we didn’t even have one middle [...]

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