Chris' parents decided that since we weren't heading to AZ to spend Christmas with them, they would come to CA to spend New Year's with us. They came for just a couple days, just long enough to ring in the new year and have some ice cream!
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Each set of grandparents got one of the frames that the kids built and painted at Home Depot with this year's Santa pic in it for Christmas!
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Clara showed Grandpa how she takes her Accelerated Reader (AR) quizzes on the books she reads. For Christmas Clara got the
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which she read at a rate of one each night and got a 100% on each quiz. This girl LOVES to read!
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We
should've known what we were doing, taking Grandpa to Superior Dairy last summer...he couldn't wait to
take the kids back!
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Grandpa's banana split
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Not sure what the faces were for...but they're cute!
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Matthew's first bite of ice cream
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See him pushing me back so he can get at the ice cream on his own!
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We would steal bites between giving him bites...
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He would open his mouth and watch the spoon
every time it passed him by!
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I know what
that dirty look is for!
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YUM!
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We all scream for ice cream!
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Who wouldn't love those faces!