It Is a Delight to Be With Our Children and Grandchildren

Saturday, December 5, was our Fourth Annual Call Christmas Gathering. What a joy that was to have everyone here with the exception of Laura and Jonathan's family, who are far away in South Carolina; and Seth, Courtney and her husband, Daniel who are all away at college. Our first activity was to design and build a remote control car. We had six "design/build" teams with three members on each team.
Sierra, Isis and Maria chose to build a spiffy Chevy Corvette in Dungeon Black with a "GIRLZ RUL" license plate.
Merlin, Cindy and David (who unfortunately had to work this day, but joined us later) chose to build a Chevy Corvette but in Track Sting Yellow with black racing stripes.
Each team took time to think about which accessories they wanted to add to their cars. Did they want fancy wheels? Brayden, Christian and Stan are making the big decisions as to what to add to their Fang Green Dodge Viper.

"Get that on just right Uncle Ben!" Demetrius, Kevin and Ben are hard at work on their Dodge Challenger in Black Attack with Orange Racing Stripes.
It is time for those last finishing touches. Does our car need anything else? Then it is time to register our car and create a license plate. Cambrie, Callie and Tanya worked hard on designing their RZ Rascal in Punk Pink.

Now to show off our work! Addie, Charity and Cheryl are proud of their Mini Cooper in Laser Blue covered in hearts and flowers.


It was special to watch our teenage grandchildren be so kind and considerate of their younger cousins with this project. Way to go Kevin, Christian, Sierra, Charity and Callie!

After lunch, we had a Pentathalon in the park across from our home. The wheelbarrow race is about to begin. We also had an egg carry relay, shoe distance kick, marshmellow mouth stuffing, and the "saltine" whistling events.One of the looked forward to events of the afternoon was the car race with the cars they had build early in the day. Everyone got to compete in at least two races. The final race was between a mother and son. Brayden came in as grand champion in first place. Wow! Cheryl was in second place. We finished off the afternoon with six rotating games in teams of two/three. Sometimes the teams were competing with each other and sometimes were cooperating for team points.

We finished off a full day with skits, pizza, and the movie "Elf". What a special day! Thanks children and grandchildren for making the effort to come and spend this day with us.