Estes Park - #2

 It's our "Christmas With The Grandkids Day"!!  Always one of my favorite days of the year to watch the kids open the gifts that Glenn and I give them!

We ate breakfast at our cabin and I baked the cinnamon rolls I had laid out the night before - they always make the cabin smell SO GOOD!  Then we all walked across the street to the big cabin for the gift opening!

Jaime and Jessi were already starting on their tea and coffee when we arrived!

The younger kids all got hooded blankets and they loved them!!

Robby, Gary and Brad enjoying the opening of the gifts!

They also all got hats with different things printed on them!

The drivers all got wind proof and water proof emergency blankets to put in their vehicles along with a personalied license plate!  Didn't get a picture of them all together!

We stopped for cinnamon rolls and coffee about 1/2 way through - once again Jessi outdid herself with a pan of homemade cinnamon rolls (mine were NOT!) and then finished up!

Here are the girls with their Tulum, Mexico books that I did for them!

And here are the grandkids that I made the books for - once a grandchild has graduated, they no longer receive the books!

The line up - from oldest to youngest - WHAT A CREW!!

And the calendars that I make for the girls and their spouses!  Yes, I spent many, many hours on the computer in the fall doing all of the books!

It was free time after lunch - some went to the craft center and here's Aleah and Kenzie with their paintings - they are both SO GOOD!

Gwyn enjoyed this gift and spent a lot of time using the markers to finish the pictures!

Jill and I did dinner that evening - Italian - Jill made lasagna and I did manicotti - paired with garlic bread and ceasar salad it was a great meal!  We had the kids clean up each evening and the boys were in charge this night!

After dinner, we played Bunco Lightning Round - I had brought dollar bills for everyone - each got $3 and after rolling, either got to keep the money, hand $1 to your left OR $1 to your right OR put $1 in the center!!  Eventually all the money ended up in the center and Kenzie was the winner for the kids!

It ended up being so much fun!!  Then the adults played the game and Glenn was the winner!

We will definitely do this game again next year!

Then it was off to the gym, all piled in 2 different vehicles!  Most of them played volleyball or basketball for a while - and then some went in to roller skate!  

It was ONE FANTSTIC DAY AND EVENING!!!