So we were going to head to Northern Kentucky on the 26th to surprise the family gathered there. Then, on the morning of the 22nd, our doorbell rings and in walk Lori, Dan and Ted. After hanging out for a while, they head back out on the road to Illinois and we're standing in the hallway... "Why don't we just go up today?" Why not, indeed. Hey, if it's a good surprise one day, it's four times better four days earlier, right?
We arrived late Friday to kick off a blur of parties, gift exchanges and chow-downs separated by bouts of sleeping in big time and the obligatory visit to Skyline.
Santa, of course, made his appearance at grandma's. The kids, of course, loved their new toys. And Geert, of course, spent way too much time assembling one of them – in this case, the slurpee machine that takes 20 minutes to turn a can of Coke into half a cup of icy Coke.And Natasja, of course, lost another tooth. Oh, wait, she actually didn't this week. But here's that toothless grin we've been promising for a while.
