Christmas

Julie G- 

As kids Christmas Eve was the same every year.  We would go out to Grandpa and Grandmas, have to sing at church and then go home and open presents!!!  That was our favorite part and after two long church services couldn't ever come fast enough.

I remember always leaving Santa cookies and a diet coke.  Mom always told is that Santa didn't like warm milk that had been sitting out.  So anyways after church we would head home but Dad would want to drive around and look at lights.  Nooooo we just wanted to get home to those presents.  Then we would get home and dad would find some I obnoxious Christmas music and we would be so antsy to open presents.  Finally it was time and one by one we could open them.  

Amazing how the presents are the only detail I barely remember.   Mom and Dad both knew Christmas was so much more than opening presents and I hope that I can pass that along to my kids when they are old enough someday!

Wine Festival Surprise

Julie G. and Sarah S. -

Watertown holds a wine festival each fall at Riverside Park complete with wine tasting.  Cousin Sarah and I decided we needed to go check it out.  I had mentioned to Dad I was meeting Sarah to go and he seemed interested but not enough to tag along. 

So Sarah and I went down and the wine was delicious!  We were about finished with our tasting when we see Dad outside of the gate waving and yelling "SARAH, JULIE!" at the top of his lungs.  So we walked over to him and asked if he was going to do some wine tasting too?  He said that he just came down to check it out, but wasn't actually going to do any tasting.  So we decided since we were about done we would go down to Riverview Water Trap and have 'just one'.  After several, mixed drinks (Dad: Seven and Seven, Sarah: Crown and Coke and Me: Limon and Diet Coke) a photo was in order.  We had just as much fun or more hanging out with Dad as we did at the wine festival!