The day after Christmas we went to Atlanta-we met Greg's childhood friend, Katherine, for lunch before going to Grammy's.
Some of these below people are a little crazy!!!!
Fun hanging out in Grammy's kitchen! and with 9 cousins there is always someone around to put bunny ears on!
Our first night dinner we all ate together in the dining room!
After dinner and clean up we decided to surprise the kids and go ahead and do stockings and presents our first night together
Aunt Emily and Uncle Greg having fun messing with the tree and its lights
The kids all get stockings from Grammy at her house!
Above-Abby, Jake and Ashley
Below-Blythe
Ryan, Chris, Jodi
Scott and more legos
When Ryan found his legos, he hid in the corner and put them together right away!
Greg hid some of his pieces but did give them back! eventually
Ian decided to build on the piano
Joy
Ryan with what he had built
The cousins swap names and each buy a gift for one other cousin. Thanks Jodi for the terrific idea a few years ago-we have so much fun shopping and deciding just the right thing to buy for the assigned cousin!
We scored big buying Maggie an emoji pillow of her very own!
Blythe LOVES the limitedly available Pumpkin oh's from Trader Joes so we got her some extra boxes!
Joy with books and OLIVES-one of her VERY favorite things!
and Ashley got ANOTHER notebook!
Ryan got a kit to make soda 2 liters explode with mentos
a new purse for Aunt Em
Ryan's SUPER cool Death Star light from Grammy-it lights up and changes color!!!
The above is not a great picture but Grammy totally scored with Ashley on this t-shirt-I will read on a boat, I will read with a goat-etc from the Dr Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham but about reading!
Joy with a new bathingsuit for her doll
Our families also get a gift for one of the other 2 families and we got a new board game called Passport to Culture.
Blythe and Grammy talking about her special handed down music box gift with the swan on top
how do you finish the weaving????
Uncle Chris' famous ginormous pancakes!
We went hiking one day at Kennesaw Mountain
All 9 on a big rock!
Blythe showing off her new bug house
We went to Grammy's office-this is her old one and she is getting to move to a new one with cool walls of exposed brick and will give her a space for adults too. We got to see it this day but it doesn't have anything in it yet.
Playing games about jumping up and down the stairs
Then we went to hang out at the Gross' house for a little bit
we enjoyed the trampoline and the awesome swings they have!
Scott can touch the Christmas light over their trampoline
Making cookie icing with Aunt Jodi
decorating!
Ryan and his soda experiment
wow it shoots pretty high!
We had a blast enjoying cousin time at Grammy's house all week!
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