Carlsbad, California

Twenty-five members of the family spent a week in Carlsbad. It was perfect weather and the company was great! Avery and Brookie built a great sand castle.

We had a wonderful week in Southern California. Nothing is better than spending time with famiy! Here are some of the cute cousins - Rebecca, Rach, and Megan.
Knott's Berry Farm was tons of fun. We enjoyed a chicken dinner at the main restruant. Check out the kids table. What after-math!!!
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The beach was lots of fun. Here is Gordon with his oldest daughter, Jennifer.
Careful not to get too much sun.
Some went to the zoo, Legoland, and SeaWorld. Floyd and grandpa playing a little touch football.




















Nicholas and Alex did some BMX racing. Alex won a first place trophie. They were both amazing

Kevin built a bonfire on the beach. We cooked our meal and smores. The fire truck showed up. Lucky for us, Kevin wasn't taken away. They were great to give us instructions on how to put out the fire when we were done. It was a beautiful evening for our last night in CA.






(Thanks to Preston. He is a great photographer. I made this blog entry and realized that I didn't have any photos of me. I downloaded some of his photos from Facebook. I decided that I couldn't have a Grandma Geddes Blog with a few photos of Grandma Geddes. Thanks again!)

Grandma's Party in 3-D

If you have 3-D glasses, you might like to view Grandma's Christmas Party in 3-D. Ryan is the photographer. Here are the grandkids dancing around the tree.
The tree was decorated in stockins with toys and candy canes for the great-grandkids. They also got a reindeer stuffed animal hanging on the tree.
The cousins had a fun time.Daniel found a nut in two tarts, winning two prizes from grandma.
We sang "Hang Up the Babies Stocking" for Holland and Bailey.We enjoyed a great dinner and visited with family.cousins joined in.

Alaskan Cruise

We just returned from a 7-day Royal Caribbean Cruise to Alaska. Everything about it was first class. We really didn't want to see it end. I am posting some highlights. Our ship was the Rhapsody of the Sea. It had 2100 passengers and 1000 crew members.

We took photos of our ship on the other side of the bay on an excursion on the Juneau Trolley.

Our stateroom was very lovely.


Notice Grandpa clowning around like Samuel.
Each day our stateroom attendant folded towels into amazing sculptures.

Check these out starting with the elephant.TurtleMonkey
Turkey

We really got a kick out of what he did with my shoes that I left out of the closet. He really entertained us and worked for a tip at the end of the cruise!
We took 245 pictures. I'll post another installment later. That's 11 down and 234 to post.