This is what I want to remember about December: 1. Making Mikel's Christmas present (wood stuff from Heidi Swapp) 2. Mom and Dad's surprise Christmas gift. (We had Lee Wright install and hand rail for the back porch into the mudroom. He managed to do it in secret and they just woke up and it was there! 3. My new Unicorn yard decor 4-6. Cynjyn cut her own hair, it was fun tickling Jaxon with it! 7-8. Tanner playing a game with a busy boy on his back! 9. Mikel straightening up her hair 10-12. Cynjyn making gifts, Tanner and Joey packing a gift to send to a friend, evening walk around our neighborhood to see the decorations. 13-14. Cleaning the church 15. Garry got gifts from Arcata, a speaker and chocolates from a local chocolatier 16. Taz could go down with her on his back, but he could only go back up once. 17. Morning walks in cool weather 18. Taz's new beanie someone at the Rock Climbing gym made for him 19. Raisins on my no bake cookie 20. Messy bun hair 21. Wearing Jaxon's mask he got at preschool 22.Tanner made business cards to put up as a tutor 23. My Christmas candy bowls 24. Finishing the Book of Mormon CFM 25-26. Cynjyn and Garry putting together her gift for Jaxon 27. Gus's picnic table he got for Christmas (portable so he can take it anywhere) 28. Garry buying miniatures with his birthday money from Mom (You don't know which ones you'll get until you open them) 29. Taz playing the piano a lot 30. Trying a hot chocolate bomb 30. Garry pouring the bacon grease into the jar and we all hear a crack, it split it all the way through. 31. Buying a pound of peanut butter cup after Christmas on clearance 32. Putting together a 1000 piece puzzle in 3 and a half hours with Tanner on NY's Eve 33. Jaxon's school picture 34. COVID Santa 35. New Years Eve with the Shafer's playing games and toasting in the new year with fireworks and sparkling cider at midnight, then getting home at 1:30. And that's a wrap for 2020...WHAT A YEAR!!!
Friday, January 22, 2021
Little Things
Christmas Day
Christmas day was pleasant. I got up around 7am and put the stocking stuff out. I took a pano of the tree. It was such a pretty morning. The sun was shining around tree and the light was good. I was grateful to get a photo of mom and dad. Talon's family got over around 11 and Jaxon helped Tanner hand out the gifts. He was so funny because he would take them and pull off the bows of each one before he handed the gift to it's owner. I had to take a little photo of the couch with all the bows on it. I took a photo of everyone with their stash and then we opened them one by one. Jaxon had a hard time with this, but he got the hang of it and it took almost an hour to open. This year was really weird because everyone had given me a list and I ended up getting everything from everyone's list. So nothing was a surprise. However, I like surprises, so I made sure to get everyone a surprise gift they didn't know was coming. We got Talon a tire filler kit. We got Tanner a sweater and a raccoon. We got Taz a synthesizer and a book (Matthew Mcconaughey-Green lights) and we got Cynjyn a Horror Movie Monster hoodie blanket and Grumpy Cat PJ's. Camdyn slept through the gift opening, so when he woke up from his nap, we let him open presents. We played games most of the afternoon and Taz took Jaxon swimming. We had decided to have Mexican for dinner. We made chicken and beef taquitos, some with flour and some with corn tortillas. It made sooooo much!! I also made a sweet corn cake and an avacado dip and cheesy tator tots. For dessert I made a mock fried ice cream pie and deep fried strawberry cream cheese stuffed tortillas covered with cinnamon and sugar. All was so good, but we were all soooo full! It was a Merry Christmas.