Move over, Princess Saya.

Make room for more royalty in the Seagle family.

Uncle Dave was passing out tiaras this Christmas and managed to crown Saya all the way from Morgan Hill, CA while she was in Cortland, OH.

Love you all! Grandma Seagle

One more time with the Christmas videos

Ben finishes off our series of Christmas Stockings. It would have been fun - and funnier - if I could have shown the first take of this story when Ben needed an attitude adjustment, which he got and we re-did the video. He's learning the guitar; Justin the drums (earplugs please) and Anna the trumpet. All kidding aside, they've made tremendous progress.
Love you all! Grandma

More Video - This time it's Anna

Saya is cute.....

.....but we're not suppose to say so. She's modest. More videos on the next posting.

Ho! Ho! Ho! It wasn't even Christmas yet.....

......but Ben, Justy, Anna, Saya and Aly were allowed to open their Christmas stockings from Aunt Helen and Uncle Dave - just trying to stretch the gifts out a little so they wouldn't all hit at the same time.

After you watch these videos, go to the next posting for more movies. I think I have a limit on how much video time my blog has per posting.

This is a puzzle.

Can you locate Joyce Ann's (your cousin for you too young to know) cat in this photo. I must say, her tree has very unusual decorations. Love you all! Grandma for both of us

And the band plays on

It's Christmastide and we are busy. Even so, as Grandpa plays clarinet with the Cortland Community Band, when duty calls he grabs his horn and we head for the concert hall or a lawn or the back of a truck or somewhere. This video was taken at the Shepherd of the Valley Retirement Community (spinoff of the place where Great-G&G Seagle lived) and starts off with a sweet solo of Grandpa on the clarinet. Have your fingers ready to poke into your ears, though, as I had to stand behind the band to film and, unfortunately the acoustics were mamahuhu (that's Chinese for so-so or mediocre) and my cameraship is not exactly exemplary. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the collection of snapshots from many concerts, the solo and sort of pretend the most of the music didn't happen. MERRY CHRISTMAS! Love you all! Grandma for both of us