Christmas 2020

Christmas 2020 - some Covid restrictions are still in place and wise, but we had a great time.  We did visit all of our local living kids.  And it was nice.  We wore masks in most places, but not all (as the family members felt comfortable).  We had a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner with Anna Lou, Bean and Paul and me.  And we had a great Christmas breakfast with the same group in the morning and then opened presents.

Anna Lou didn't feet safe about going with us house to house this year, so we dropped her off and then went to see everyone.  We started with Supe, Beacher and Jem.  It was so good to see them.  We have missed so much time with people this year.  You don't realize how much until you actually get to see them.  Jem is growing up and we have missed so much of that.  But, we are happy we got to see them today!  

Next we visited the Borrowmans.  Ferf always does the family shopping for our gift, so we picked it up while we were there.  Lots of nice gift cards and some travel cash.  Just what we like!  So good to spend a little time there.  The kids are growing up too fast...and what good kids they are...great parents.  (Not enough pics here - shucks!)  

Then we visited Moss and Christie and kids.  Kai was so excited about his new motorcycle!  Such a nice little family.  

Then we visited Derek and kids...and enjoyed a little "snowball" fight.  And it's just good to see them too.  Derek and the girls worked hard together to make Christmas happen.  Doing all of the work of getting ready for Christmas without a mom to help is a lot of work, but they made it happen. My heart goes out to them.  (Roxie loved the Hover Stars a lot!)  Argh...not enough pics here either!

Next the Weavers stopped by at our house for a fun little visit.  Juge is always thinking of fun gifts to add to what is already a great gift from the group.  She has a real knack of remembering or seeing things you might enjoy.  Grateful for this family.

On the way to Cedar we had a nice Facetime visit with Jay and Brynn.  They will be coming down in a few days, but it was fun to share a little Christmas Day time with them.  Looking forward to seeing them soon and doing a little late Christmas with them.  We are glad they make the effort to come down.  We are glad they are as close as they are.  

We ended the day in Cedar with the Randalls...another great family.  They are nice to let us come and help them eat up their Christmas dinner with them.  And they gave us great new family pictures and homemade sourdough bread.  

Jay and Brynn came down on the 30th for some after Christmas fun.  We kept our growing Christmas tree up and opened presents with them by it.  It's been fun to get to see them too!  

Here's Jem enjoying his Christmas "turduck" in the bath.  We thought he would like it!

This has been a crazy year in so many ways.  Family dinners, activities and Family Camp have all suffered from they Covid-19 restrictions.  But we are so blessed as a family to have kept our jobs and our health with only Derek actually getting sick so far.  For us personally, our work hasn't suffered much other than me missing some of the end of school last year.  We have so much to be grateful for.