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Christmas in January 2019

 

Last year we did this at Aunt Myra’s place. I offered to host this year. More family, more LOVE.

Ronon’s oldest sister plus her sister and her sister’s brother. Plus Sister’s cousins and his

cousins, aunts, uncles and friends. Crazy fun and lots of food. We are loving this new family

tradition! All these babies had fun getting SPOILED by Grandma Toni and Papa Manny. SO SO SPOILD.  Aunti Aroura getting happy smiles while she helps put on his shoes. It’s such a little but huge

beautiful moment.  Missing Vala in these grandkiddos photos. She was still at Pheonix Children’s Psych Ward.

Hopefully she’ll be around for next time. So fun having Ronon’s maternal side over for this Christmas in January. Looking forward to next year already.

Christmas 2018 family photo

These photos do not show the reality of how this Christmas went. This was a ROUGH one. One I’d LOVE to forget/erase/do over. DO BETTER. It truly sucked. But still. Happy to have these photos even if they are not an accurate representation of how our emotional/mental/physical state was.

Papa and Yaiya/Babushka/ Oma with all their grandchildren to date. All the cousins for this branch of the family tree to date. And a nice group shot with all of us with our lovely matriarch. Love Love Love Grandma Joani. SO beyond happy to have these photos. They are certainly a balm to the crapfest this Christmas turned out to be.  I’m postdating this post 2.5 years after the fact because it’s taken that long to begin healing from events. It was BRUTAL.

Kaylee’s Winter dance performances 2018

Kaylee participated in her studio’s Winter performances around town this year. A first for her

and us.There were two performances for the winter dance. Regan was my date for the smaller performance as it was at the mall. LEGO store time happened after dancing. The night show was bigger so our whole crew went to watch that one. Sloth horde in all it’s glory.