Saturday, January 4, 2014

Hendricks Christmas 2013

The annual Hendricks Family Christmas-on-New-Years was earlier this week in Roanoke.  We arrived around 9am to find Granny home and Papa at the gym.  Chris and the boys hadn't arrived yet either, so we settled in and then Charles took Granny for a ride in our new Prius.

The kids opening gifts


Once they returned everyone else had arrived.  Granny had grab bags for the kids, so they did that before we opened the rest of the gifts.  They got bags, notebooks, pens/pencils, and assorted items.  Then we opened other gifts.  Granny was proud of herself (and I'm proud of her too!) for not overdoing it this year.  It's nice to see the girls appreciating what they received rather than forgetting about half of it because they got so much.

Adults opening gifts


The girls and I received Target gift cards from Granny and Papa, so after a long lunch at a pub place we went shopping with Granny.  On this trip I got a new and faster wireless router for the house, and the girls picked out toys.  Hannah selected a Heart 2 Heart girl from Afghanistan, and Sophie chose a pink lockbox and a Barbie doll with a dog that eats and poops, which I find quite gross.  We also went to Belk so Charles could spend his gift money on some new shoes.

Posing on the red ball outside Target


Once we returned to the house Chris and the boys had already left for home to take care of the dogs.  We showed off our shopping to Papa, and then the girls played with their new things while Granny and I got set up for a simple supper of sandwiches.

It was a good day, but I realized while preparing for this post that Charles didn't take any pictures of Papa.  Here's one just for fun that also happens to match one of his Christmas presents.

What?? This doesn't look like Papa?

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