Holiday Duo

Tonight, Grandma Maurine invited us over to her house for dinner, a Halloween Party and FHE to set up her GIANT Christmas tree. Because the kids had been sick on Halloween, she wanted them to have a little party to celebrate afterwards. She ordered pizza, bought chips and fudgcicles, created little loot bags for them, and set up a game on hide-and-seek in her massive house. We had fun setting up the giant tree as well. Most of the time, we have to keep the kids out of the way, because there isn't much they can do, until we get to the plastic decorations, but they enjoyed seeing the enormity of it anyway. Grandma's tree is really fun too, because she has these big clusters of 'grape' lights which are made with led paint, so no one is really allowed to touch them, and some really fancy glass decorations...again, which no one is really allowed to touch, for a different reason, and then she's got a bunch of 'Hershey' decorations, because her maiden name is Hirsche. The kids really enjoy finding all things Hershey around her house and thought it was great to hang some kisses on the tree. Once the tree was done, we put the chicken costumes from Halloween back on so Great Grandma would have a chance to see them. Max showed us a pretty funny run that he likes to do in the costume, but we had a heck of a time getting it on film. We kept explaining to him to start at one end of the room and run towards us, or away from us, so we could tape it, but every time, he would do something completely different. Either he wouldn't do the funny run, or he would run the wrong directions, or Lucy would get in the way. We have tonnes and tonnes of video of the adults (Papa, Grandma, Great Grandma and I) laughing away at his antics and Tyler shouting orders to get him to do it right. We laughed most at Tyler's frustration.It was a fun family home evening and a night to celebrate multiple holidays. The kids really like going to Great-Grandma's because she has so much fun stuff to look at, and she always allows the kids to touch stuff, even though it looks untouchable.