We enjoyed Christmas Eve this year with a house full of family. Best Christmas present ever. We shared a potluck buffet.
The grandkids produced and acted Christmas story with Peter the only adult selected playing the role of the donkey and Sarah narrating
Had a flurry of present opening and a little wrestling with granddad
And the grandkids all ready bed
We took a break from winter for a couple of days the week before Christmas and drove over the hill to Grass Valley. It was only a few degrees warmer in Grass Valley, but it was a nice break. We arrived in the afternoon, found our place and then went to dinner in Nevada City and wandered around a bit there. The next morning we headed out for a walk along the Hard Rock trail in the Empire Mine State Park.
We followed that with a drive to the Malkoff Diggings
We stopped at a bridge across the Yuba River just as the sun was setting
This is a view if the new bridge from the old bridge
And this is a view of the old bridge from the new bridge
The next morning we took a walk on the Wolf Creek trail that wanders through the town of Grass Valley.
Decorating gingerbread cookies was a tradition I enjoyed as a child and I love having our grandchildren come over and carry on the tradition. This year not much adult supervision was required with the result that a lot of frosting was eaten and not as many cookies were decorated,
