Friends and Family - The Low Tech Version

The Christmas holiday is the perfect time to step back and reflect on what is important in your life. We had a lovely couple of weeks with friends and family, and it was so refreshing to be with young people not tied to their cell phones or tablets. I have enjoyed a tech break, as well.

Disclaimer: The photos in this post are not in any particular order. They are illustrations of a lovely two week period of time.

There has been time with children and grandchildren...and GREAT grandchildren! I love taking "generation" photos!

Daryl with daughter, Kim, granddaughter Courtney,
and great-grandson Brody.

Brody with his Aunt Kailey.

This time Daryl is with son, Kent, and Kent's daughter Emily,
and granddaughters Addy and Emma.

There was a gingerbread house decorating competition, baking and gatherings with friends and family.

I have particularly enjoyed watching the grandchildren embrace their creative sides. For a great deal of our day together these girls had SO much fun taking pictures. Emily, our granddaughter at Ohio State University has developed quite a love for photography. She had to purchase a DSLR for her photography class this past semester, and she brought that camera, as well as her point-and-shoot, AND a disposable which was left over from an event earlier in the year. The three girls shared the cameras (THANK YOU, Emily!) and took pictures of each other, of all of us, and of the critters.

In fact, I even learned that my own DSLR has "selfie" capability, so we had to play with that as well.

Today we have spent the day taking down the outward signs of the beautiful Christmas and New Years celebrations, but our memories will keep us warm as we brave the January chill, and I head back to work. We hope you have had your own memory-building experiences and are entering 2018 with renewed enthusiasm. I love the reboot I get every January.

Happy New Year!

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