Christmas

Grandpa Hamblin became sick and needed to be hospitalized, so I stayed with Grandma while Mike was taking care of Grandpa. We took her to the hospital for a daily visit. Over the course of the vacation she eventually forgot who we were going to see. This is Christmas day. They opened their presents in the room. We were beginning to worry about what would happen when it was time to go back to school with Grandpa still not well. So we arranged for assisted living care. It didn't please Grandpa, but we could see no other avenue.
One funny part of the whole ordeal was that Grandma forgot who we were and that we were even married. She was dead set against us both sleeping in the front bedroom. That was fine with me, but Mike had to do some fast talking to avoid the back bedroom.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving rolls around. Braden and Ashlee work on pictures of themselves. The Nativity gets a final coat of varnish at school. The girls set a beautiful table and we enjoy dinner and celebrate Mike's birthday.

The ever popular Kennington grandkids stair photo

The Pre-Thanksgiving party in Afton

To see Lynn and his family, we ran to Afton and had a great visit with everyone.

October and November

We enjoyed birthdays, Halloween, the high school kids painted a great nativity scene for the valley, Corbin began crawling on cold tile, Blaine and Angie came while they were waiting to sell their home in Tennessee.

Fall brought...

We had wonderful weather and lots of fall color. School started, homecoming floats to be made - fun to be back in a routine and have goals (am I saying that?)

Braden's excited

Braden is quite the guy! He loves sports, keeps up with school, watches over his little sister and all his little cousins love to be around him. He really helps when he visits Grandma - and I appreciate it so much. He's a wonderful grandson. We're lucky to have him in the family.