Winter Adventure & Mark and Paula

There were several trips to the subdivision's kids park for Brianna and Dustin to play, seems the big kids had some fun too.

Lanier Islands has a Winter Adventure park over the holidays so Judy, Jody, Brianna, Devyn, and Dan spent an afternoon and evening there.  

They had an ice skating rink but being in Georgia the ice was plastic.

Dan is on the left, Devyn the right and Brianna's the short one.  Dan won the "betcha I can knock ya down" bumps with Devyn.  Brianna just plain struggled to move. 

 Brianna going down one of the slides.

Devyn coming down another slide.

Mark and Paula were in Michigan for Christmas and returned before we left so we all got together at a Japanese Steak House for lunch then continued visiting at Jody and Renato's home.

Well folks.....that's a wrap for 2015.  Happy New Year!!

Lebkuchen time

Of course we had to make a batch of Lebkuchens from my Grandmother's recipe.  Devyn has made them several times but this was a first for Dan.  Brianna wasn't too sure what was going to happen.

 When Dan broke the spoon stirring it was time for hand to hand combat with the dough as the last of ten pounds of flour is added. 

This is going so well........

What could possibly go wrong with two teenagers making cookies?

Looks like the referee let the cookie mixing get a little out of hand. 

After a day or two in the fridge it was time to bake them, it also gave Devyn and Dan time to get cleaned up and calmed down!

Family time

The weather has been pretty nice, warm and sunny so Devyn & Dan showed the kids, and dogs, how to make some big bubbles.  One day we all went to see the new Star Wars movie, the theater had quite a few people watching it but it was just another Star Wars movie to me.

Randy and Renato did a little electrical work.

Time to frost and decorate the Christmas sugar cookies.

Merry Christmas!!

Family Christmas in Flowery Branch

On the 23rd we traveled to Jody and Renato's home for Christmas, Randy and Devyn also drove down from Michigan with Molly on the 24th.  Devyn's boyfriend, Dan, will fly in from FL late on Christmas day. The Bahnmiller clan has gathered. We have rented a condo to stay in with Randy while Devyn and Molly stay with Jody, Renato, Brianna, Dustin and their dogs.
It was a very wet trip and as usual we went through Atlanta during the afternoon rush.  Atlanta was very foggy.

Renato has planned a hog shoulder for the Christmas dinner.  He has dug a pit in the back yard and he and Randy will cook it in there for a day.

Santa is almost here!

The weather has been excellent so far this winter, usually in the 70s.  Judy is in charge of the monthly bus trips to the Biloxi casinos and has been borrowing some wooden horses to play a game while on the bus.  She decided she wanted her own so here she is painting them.

  Here's a cute picture of Brianna photo bombing Jody and Dustin.

Our weekly Friday HitchHiker lunches started a few weeks ago so here's a picture of Paul & Dottie, Jenny & Craig, Tom & Heather, Joe & Sharon, Dave & Donna and Judy.

Judy likes to walk on the beach and caught a picture on the Blue Angels as they practiced.

Here's the HH gang at Mikees again, this time Steve & Susy were here.  They have been in FL and are here for a few days as they head west to TX to visit family for Christmas then the RGV for the winter.  Kay & Charlie are here too this week.

Judy likes LA BBQ so we had to make one more lunch before Steve and Susy head west and Paul & Dottie also depart.

Donna has been blessed with the talent of giving back massages and will often walk behind us after luch and give us all a message. Steve is enjoying his! 

Judy's walking, Brianna & Dustin getting ready for Christmas

Friday night was a warm up (it was cold) for the Gulf Shores Christmas parade.  Judy will be one of the walkers and wanted to test her warm clothing layering technique before the parade so she walked with the float through the park.  I guess either her hands were cold or fell off. 

Here's the parks float, it was built by the snowbirds a few years ago and is hauled out, repaired and painted as needed each year.  They also use it in February for the Mardi Gras parades. 

                                              Don't Skip and Kay look so excited below?

                                                        Here's Brianna & Dustin dressed for a Christmas party!

                                                   And here's the kids with THE man!

Thanksgiving

In the morning Devyn was watching Renato and Brianna fly a kite. It was windy enough that Brianna had trouble holding onto it.

Don & Zola joined us for Thanksgiving, here's the fellows resting up to eat while dinner is finishing cooking.

Wonder what there were thinking?  Yup, it will be a long drive back to Michigan?

                              Do you think there are happy?

                                        Three generations

Yes, I was there too.  I had a birthday and this is my hamburger......well cake!