And the band plays on....

My grandma, affectionately known as "Gigi" (or Great Grandma!) to the boys moved into an assisted living place in October. Ever since she left her oh too big three story home, she has a new lease on life. She even joined the apartment's Rhythm Band and their first concert was on Christmas Eve at 2:30 so we all dressed up and headed over there for the matinee! It was great! My parents, Dan, the boys and I all enjoyed it immensely and my dad looked SO proud of his mom! Gigi played her drum beautifully!

Here she is during one of their 7 songs...she is the fab lady in the middle!
Nana was snapping a picture, while the boys and I all sat and enjoyed the fantastic music!
No concert would be complete without a snack and the folks running this show had a cart full of homeade delish Christmas cookies. Here Nick is trying to pick one out....luckily all the little old women loved the boys, so they ate TONS!
Dan and Luke pose....Luke was LOVING the cookies!
Here Gigi was opening one of her presents from us....what do you get an 80 something lady??? You get "artsy" and make something. I got the idea from a co-worker to copy regular pictures and mod podge them onto a regular ole white canvas! It was a HIT! Gigi's friend Jimmy was watching her open her presents. Gigi has now taken on the job of Jimmy caretaker, as he is an elderly man with the mental capacity of a 6 year old. Gigi loves her time with Jimmy and revels in the fact that she is teaching him how to ride the elevator independently and such!
After the show and present opening, we headed to an early dinner at Applebee's. The boys were SO good!!! After dinner we headed back to our house, hung out for a bit and then went to church.
After church we headed home and put out our reindeer food for Santa's reindeer and then headed inside!
And to our surprise what did we find??? We found a note from Santa...he had stopped by already to give us some Christmas books!

Here Nick is showing Luke the letter we got from Santa!
All the boys were so excited to find the great Christmas books under the tree...
What else could we do but read them...
We then got our pajamas on and spent the rest of the night watching Santa's travels on the computer! Then it was off to bed to patiently wait for Santa and his reindeer!