The Bauer Christmas

We hosted the Bauer Christmas this year. It was fun getting ready for this gathering: decorating the house for Christmas, organizing, and cooking. Ahhh..retirement allows time for this. The Bauer clan gathers on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to celebrate Christmas because some family members leave in December for Florida and this timing allows us to get together. 39 members were present! Ages 3 months to 84 years old!
We were missing Brent, April, Cade and Kasen as they were in Kansas and Luke, Annie, Rye and Oren from Colorado as Oren is just 5 weeks old now.

Scott, Melissa, Landon and Owen arrived first that morning and we had time to play.

After dinner we each opened our present from G & G Bauer. We love this process as they send everyone their money a month early. We each are to purchase what we want with the money, wrap it and bring it to the Christmas party.

Landon got legos....

And Owen got a train station.

We headed to the gym for some fun. A big kick ball game was played.

The Beranek crew headed home after the gym play. The rest of went back to the house for left-overs and a "turkey cookie" project.

When things quieted down Landon spent time working on his legos and Owen played ball with Papa.

Thanks, Mom and Dad! What a wonderful family you've created: 4 children, 11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren!