MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Such a different day this year with COVID. BUT... Jesus was still born.. so we could live!
Here is a photo log of our day. I didn't take as many photos as I usually do, but we had a lovely day!
Stockings are always first, and alway filled with fun stuff...
An autographed Taylor Swift CD from her Aunt Michelle. She was pretty excited!
The kids got me a foaming hand soap refill.. the BEST gift during the pandemic!!
So... we are not a "gaming" family.. by choice. Evelyn has never really been into them (nor has Doug or I), and although Matthew would LOVE it, we aren't ready to swim into those waters yet. BUT... our football loving boy LOVES to play Madden with his buddy Cannon and talks about it all the time. We decided for Christmas this year we would upgrade our family PC with a larger hard drive and video card, and then purchase Madden 21 for PC as Matthew's "big" gift.
Blogger won't let me load the video of him opening his present (we got him a controller and then printed off the cover of Madden 21), but I can assure you it was one of the most sweetest moments to see as his mom. He was overjoyed.. and completly shocked!
He started sobbing.. tears of joy... it was so sweet!
It was all ready for him to start playing and he played all morning. He LOVES it!
I made gluten free cranberry bliss bars for a breakfast treat.. they turned out really good!
Yup.. she still is loving her comfy and wears it all the time!
We also got Matthew a "make your own football plays" book. He spent time working on that too!
Cute new outfit our our cute girl from her Aunt LoLo
Love her so!
We usually have Doug's aunt Mary and his brother and family over Christmas afternoon. Due to the times that was sadly not able to happen. The kids LOVE this tradition and were so sad to have to cancel it. So, we decided to grab Mary and drive to Gresham to see them and bring gifts.
It was SO windy and rainy and cold.. which helped our visit to stay short and safe. But I did grab one photo of these amazing kids! Love all of these masked faces!
We had Mary come over for the afternoon and enjoyed time with her. We sat and chatted and Evelyn entertained us with looking up population statistics of small Oregon cities. It was hilarous!
Doing her thing... good social studies lesson!😂
After Mary left the kids and I worked on a cool puzzle Matthew got from Grandma and Grandpa.
We spent the evening downstairs playing ping pong, dancing around silly, and just having fun being together...
Oh, how I love this Christmas crew!!
Merry Christmas to you all!!
