Lowis Family Gathering

Saturday the 14th was our Lowis family gathering for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everyone was there but Jaron and Nate. Sad...

Abi and I went early to help Gram clean her side of the house, then we helped where we could on Aunt Carol's side.

Aunt Carol had decorated everything so nice!

All ready for last minute preparations.

Oh, ya, Christmas candy!

Rolls

Gram and Aunt Carol started the turkey early that morning. It was so juicy and tender! Great job!

Candy cane hershey's kisses

Waiting is hard...

This is a giant midget.

The best part of the gathering!

Stuffing

:)

Sweet potatoes

Green bean casserole

Liya has gotten so big!

This ham was yummy. They had stuck cloves into it, so it had a nice spicy taste.

I love Katelyn's finger tap. Whenever she gets ahold of something, she taps it with her pointer finger, thumb, or she slaps it with her palm. 

Cute dimples!

Belly up!

There were so many people in that small space. It got really loud, especially since the grandchildren great grands are getting older.

Newest great grand-baby, Logan! He's Matt and Gabby's.

Still cousins after all these years.  The two people on the left that most of you wouldn't recognize are Scott and Cathy, the Lowis children's cousins.

Blake and Hope had a lot of fun wrestling right in the middle of the room. :)

After everyone left, we all crashed! :)

Buggy girl loved her cup!

After everyone left, Aunt Carol remembered that she had egg nog. I'm not sure if she forgot intentionally or not... Anyway, I told everyone to "toast" to Nate since he wasn't there. Miss you so much, Nate!

Sammy had T.J.'s Irish hat on.

Look at those legs!

Did you ever see the like! I guess you can be that chubby when you're 6 months, but not when you're an adult. :)

Talking to Daddy

Christmas Caroling

On Friday the 13th, we went Christmas Caroling as a church.

All the people that we caroled for seemed very blessed. Several of the older people actually got teary eyed! It was a blessing to know that we were being a blessing to someone.

Some of us got together before hand to decorate cookies for the goodie bags that we were going to pass out. Only Chupps, Brie and Grace and our family showed up. Ugh, all those cookies to decorate by ourselves! But, we got it done!

Bread bags make for good frosting sleeves, but, user be warned, they tend to have blow outs! :)

All the cookies were packaged in festive bags.

Getting ready for the chili supper.

Ham...

Mm... Chupps and we brought chili for everybody.

Shawn made a mess with his boots so I had to take a picture of him mopping it up. :)

This is back at church after the caroling. I didn't want to have to lug the camera around out in the cold, so I left it back at church. Mabel prepared hot water for chocolate and hot apple cider while we were out. Martins brought some yummy bars for the snack.

I love Lois Ann's face! Obviously, she wasn't pleased with having her picture taken! :)

Ah, you can always trace the little people by their messes.

Cleaning up...

Poor Amy was tired.

Getting ready to go home after our cold night out.