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My Grandparents

      My Grandparents are great.  They alway's give us, me my 

two sisters and my brother, money and gifts. One time they gave

us a puppy. Another time they gave us gerbils. The puppies and 

gerbils are dead now but we had a lot of fun while they were 

alive we alway's go stay with them and they alway's spoil us. I 

alway's get to stay the longest because I'm a favorite.  I alway's 

help clean the house.  Her house is alway's very clean.  So there 

isn't much to do. Then we go out to dinner. I clean house for 

about two hours then I go out and ride the motorcycle, mopad 

it's a lot of fun. My grandfather takes us yard hopping on 

Saturdays. Yard hopping is where you go out and stop at yard 

sales. One time I got twenty-four pair's of earrings for only five 

dollars.  Then we go out to lunch. After that we go to the store

to buy junk food and stuff.  Then we go home and show my 

grandmother what we got. At Christmas it's the most fun though

we get a lot of big expinsive fifts and a lot of money.  She makes

a great big turkey, I wish it was my brother, and she alway's 

allway's makes a gigantic pot of fudge.  I usually stay with her a 

couple weekes after Christmas to clean up we alway's have big 

get togethers around the holiday's It's so much fun well I guess 

thats what my grandparents are like  They're so fun!