Christmas

Despite all the sadness that this Christmas could have brought, my family makes it all better.  We enjoyed a quiet but fun Christmas this year.

 

Home-made gifts from Aliyah!

Her gift to Max

Max's gifts to Aliyah

Max's annual Hess truck

Aliyah's annual Angel

Big surprise in the basement!  We figured since we can't go anywhere, we might as well make our own house fun...

 

Happy Birthday Jesus breakfast birthday cake!

Gingerbread building

 

Christmas Part 1

It sure looks different this year, but we were happy to celebrate Christmas Eve with Kris and Wendy, then gift opening zoom with GA Family, using new gifts of legos and puppy making treats, Christmas Eve service livestreamed, reindeer food sprinkling and we're ready to go for Santa!

 

Snow

We finally got snow!! Last year was pretty much a bust with only one snow storm. This year we're starting early with nearly 10 inches will it was all done.  While the pup generally hates cold weather, she has enough puppy in her to brave the cold and play in it!  She quickly warmed up in front of the fire under blankets when she came back in:).

 

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It's officially the season!  We had lots of fun decorating and it's really nice to have actual help in the kitchen now for cookie baking!  She can pretty much do most of it on her own.  She even found a recipe for puppy treats!

 

Thanksgiving

 It wasn't a normal Thanksgiving for sure.  Along with missing my mom, we missed pretty much everyone we usually love to host.  But there was a lot of thanks around our table of 4, mostly for each other.  It sure is nice to not just love, but really like your people too.  

Fortunately it was a beautiful day so along with several family zoom calls, we did get to have a nice visit with Kris, Wendy and Jim's crew outside at their house after we ate. 

All the good food and Max eats plain turkey, break and corn!

Puppy sure enjoyed her feast!