The Triplets each get a day with Grandma Crafting, Anna, Connor, Justin - Family Vacation 2025

Anna asked to have a crafting day by herself without the brothers, as she calls them.  When they are all here, it's very hard to have the 3 of them in my craft room all at once.  I try to say only two at a time, but it somehow seems to end up with all three, all calling out "Grandma" and trying to get my attention to help them.  Mostly, when they are all together, they all do their own thing, making their own cards, using some of the stash that I give to them.  But I usually do the taping.  I tried giving them their own Crafters Tape, but they kept trying to use them the wrong way and we wasted a lot of tape.

I had made a card for Anna and left it on their table, and she figured out how to fold it for the fancy fold card she made. I was quite amazed, because I wasn't here, she just did it on her own.  These are the 2 cards she cased from a couple of my cards.  She actually did all of the work on these two cards. The only thing I did was to go over a little in the blended oval, but for the most part she did it all.  I am really proud of her and thought she did a fantastic job.  She picked the colors, and the stamps and stencils.  It was fun watching her and realizing how things looked when she would take the stencil off.  She would say, oh, I really like this. 

 We used all Gina K. products.

So, Connor was up next, and he picked out the fancy fold but made it his own using a guitar from The Good Life and Tropical Sunshine for the other card.  He also made 3 bookmarks, one for each of them.  He had fun watching me do foiling but did his own stenciling and stamping and did a great job.

  

And Justin finally had his overnight this week.  First of all, Justin made a card on his own.  Then below are the two cards he made doing most of the stamping and blending.  So, we had a disappearing act happen with the blue blended background and had to start over again.  We looked everywhere and I even continued the search after he left and the next day.  So, I ended up doing most of this blending on the second one.  They all did a great job on their cards.  I really thought that Justin would get bored after a bit, but he was all in it.

And look what I found two days later, the missing blended sheet, the one that Justin made himself.  It was under my glass mat.  I was sure I had looked there more than once.

I am very proud of all 3 of them.  They all did a great job.

Newport Beach, Or 2025

We were able to get everyone except two here for a family reunion.  This is my two boys and their families and Rhonda and her son.

It was such a fun time as we all hadn't been together since 2020 at my dad's service.  Unfortunately, the boys and their half-sister lost their father in May, but it turned out to be a great bonding time for the 3 of them. Erin, their sister and her husband were even going to join us but had to cancel because she had a medical problem.  We were so sad for them and missed them.

Kelly's family lives in Arizonia and were all freezing.  The weather was mostly sunny and in the low 60's.  Most of the rest of us were fine.  Rhonda's son and Brad's two older girls live in Washington

My heart was so full having everyone together. 💖

Ramie had arranged to have a professional photo session to update our family photo.  These are a few of the pictures.  They turned out great.



Justin, Connor, Anna

Back Row:  Maddy, Petrina, (Yuki Petrina's Dog), Ramie, Kyaa, Avery, Me, Rhonda, Brad, P-nut, Shawn, Kelly, Brennan

Front Row:  Kailey, Alexis, Anna, Justin, Connor

Brad, Me and Kelly

Kelly's Family

Brennan, Alexis (his wife), me, Kelly, Petrina & Kyaa

P-nut, (Kailey's Boyfriend) Kailey, Maddy, Me, Kyaa, Alexis, & Brennan

Connor, Anna, Justin and Avery

My Grandchildren

Brad's Family

P-nut, Kailey, Me, Maddy, Brad

Connor, Anna, Justin, Avery, & Ramie

Shawn & Rhonda

Shawn, Kelly & Brad

Yuki

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