Christmas 2020

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 This year went by in the fastest slow-motion warp speed turtle mode ever. I don't know how Christmas came and went. My favorite time of year, and it's already over. Usually there are a ton of places to go see, lots of parties and activities, and endless invites to fun. This year there is still the Covid nightmare and most of our family and friends are at least trying to limit socializing. But we still managed to quietly pull off a few magic tricks to make it feel like Christmas.

Games during our Miller Christmas at Rhodas

Miller Christmas kid gift exchange

My cute parents

My adorable family

Sledding at the mountain with friends Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve sledding

Christmas Eve gifts from the Coombs

Gifts from Gma and Gpa Coombs for the family

Christmas morning before I let the kids tear into gifts

Christmas morning

Christmas Day after the kids opened Santa gifts

Gifts from mom and dad

Enjoying new hoverboards with their cousin Kenady

Games Christmas Day at the Morrisons

White Elephant gift exchange party

Caleb got some fake hands and I got sexy Santa lingerie

Picking out the Christmas tree with masks on

The boys trying to lift the tree

After the tree was decorated and the kids got pjs from the Elf Skyter

Hilarious house we saw with a 2020 in the toilet!

Shopping with my girls at Bridgeport for Christmas gifts, mostly for ourselves!

Hitting the slopes day after Christmas

Ronin and Caleb on the slopes

Brynlee and Calvin on the lift to the top

Ronin decorating a cookie with his class over zoom

Gingerbread party at my parents house with our friends

More gingerbread building skills

Quinton, Ronin and Elliot

Calvins house

Ronins fortress

Shelbys animal pen

Games with Cassidy who just got home from her mission

Christmas music

Decorating cookies with Granny and Papa

More cookies

Boys gift exchange for Calvin

Boys gift exchange for Ronin

A gingerbread version of our new house we are getting ready to build from Jeremy!


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