It has been days since I've posted anything here on my blog. I've been confused by a sodium deficiency; but today, I'm back. Not totally, but I do want to wish our son-in-law, Greg Greene a belated Happy Birthday. He came up with the #Pantdemic and I like that. Sorry I didn't get this done until now, but Happy Birthday Greg!

A week before Christmas and Ava has her own beauty shop. What more could a little girls want? We'll wait and see. I bet Santa has some ideas.

It is not easy to have a birthday near Christmas. There is so much going on and you get all your gifts in December. One of our granddaughters has her birthday right after Christmas. Her parents always took her on a trip for her birthday. That was something different. I liked to celebrate those children on their 1/2 birthday during the summer. Mason's friend's family here has found a good way to celebrate his birthday. They took a group to an Escape Game near them. It is not the first time Mason has done one. Some years ago, I took them to one here in OH and we worked together quite well to solve it. I've often wanted to do another one, but just haven't. Of course now, I no longer have a desire to do that, but it is so good to see the 'kids' enjoy themselves like this. After writing all of this, I realized that these are not pictures from the birthday party. That was in January. It was just another good weekend. I have more pictures to work with later for the birthday.

Back to Virginia Tech for the rest of Ashley's semester. It is a very beautiful campus...a good place for pictures.

The first day of this month, Chelle finally got to make her second Build-a-Bear. She started this some years ago with one of Aussie, the smallest of the triplets at birth. She came across Mason's baby clothes more recently and now has this bear made. I love the idea she had about filling them with stones that make the bears weigh the same as each baby was at birth. She still has one to do. Hopefully, she'll find the time to search for Ashley's baby clothes soon. She does have more time now that they are all in college.

This is the first time I've seen this smile on Julia. So cute.

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this picture was, Yummy. That looks really good. We do have an O'Charleys in this area. We haven't been there in quite some time. Maybe it is time to go. I really got a kick out of the look on Mason's face and the fact his dad had to call his attention to the fact that his food was there.