Logan always loves to go to "Pappy's house," in my home town. This year we Missouri Stanleys held our family Christmas gathering at my parents' house in Slater. My cousins, "Uncle" Jason from NYC, and "Aunt" Katie from California flew in, and of course Uncle Bragg and Auntie Joyce came in from Columbia. I love our annual Christmas gathering and I hope we always make time for it in the years to come.
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Here are Claire and I after our two and a half hour trek to Slater. We are opening presents:
Of course Claire had to inspect the Christmas tree! All those tantalizing ornaments to pull off and run around with....
The next morning Logan showed off his new Bumblebee gun:
And Pappy, Grammy and Claire shared a holiday morning hug in the kitchen.
And Claire made quite a spectacle out of eating her Cocoa Puffs..
Such debauchery. The things you can get away with at Pappy's...
It wasn't long before the Columbia Stanleys arrived! Yay!
Aunt Katie and Claire
Silly girl.
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Logan loves flashlights in any form. Here he tries on his new headgear.
Spelunking, anyone?
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Claire and Uncle Jason .
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Katie was so thrilled to be able to give up her job of Christmas Elf! She passed the torch on to Logan, but he doesn't seem to mind!
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Grammy and Claire share a moment in the kitchen.
Peekaboo Claire!
Auntie Joyce and Logan attempt to watch Coraline in 3D...
Claire and her new stuffed hippo from Uncle Jason
Grammy and Claire
There she goes with the ornaments again...
Logan being his usual upside-down self!
Uncle Jason really knows how to wrangle the kids..
Whew! All this Christmasing makes a girl sleepy!
Dad gave me some of his older 35 mm camera lenses to play with. They fit my new camera! The Crostar lens was a lot of fun:
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