New Years Eve

Cheers!

We spent New Years Eve spending time with the grandparents, having fondue and celebrating Christmas together!  We spent the rest of the evening relaxing and then all came together to toast the new year.  Happy 2021 everyone!

Ashton has passed Grandpa in height!

  

Light dinner and snacks

And dessert of 7 layer cookies!

  

Magic Mountain Lights

 Derrik and I got over to Magic Mountain tonight to their Holiday in the Park drive-thru event.  On a normal year, the park would be open.  But this year, they held a drive-thru light show with music and even dancers!  It was fun!

My anniversary present of a new
Pandora bracelet and first charm!

Happy 24th Anniversary!

Derrik and I celebrated our 24th anniversary by going out to eat (Olive Garden in the backseat) and drove around to look at Christmas lights.  Our plan was to go to Magic Mountain and see the park decked out in lights but due to the rainstorm we had the night before, most of the lights in the park were out.  We've rescheduled our trip and I'll post it when we get to go.  ❤

We went out to celebrate our anniversary
in our slippers!  Never left our car!

Dinner in the backseat

Olive Garden parking lot

Christmas Day

For the first year that I know of, we all slept in until 8 AM!  Presents started at 8:30 with Ethan sitting at the kitchen table and the rest of us around the tree.  After presents we had monkey bread, eggs and sausage and then played with our new toys.  We zoomed with Mom and then had a late lunch of roast beef, hash brown casserole, sweet potato casserole and rolls.  We had a great holiday!

  

Christmas Eve

 We ordered in Chinese food for a Christmas eve lunch, zoomed with Dad and Suzanne, watched White Christmas, Muppets Christmas Carol, had leftovers, went for a walk, watched the Christmas Eve service online, and once Cameron got home, opened presents!  We had a great day!

Facetime with Ethan during lunch

New Christmas card display

Matching pajamas and group photo "covid-style"

Cameron Tech Work

Cameron worked at the Christmas Eve services at church this week.  His co-worker, Leo, got a great picture of him.  He also got a recording of him directing cameras during the service.  It's so fun to see him in his element!

This is the audio of him talking with the other camera operators during the service.  You'll hear his voice and others talking, as well as the singers.

More Covid testing

The line for free testing at COC

 Derrik and I both got retested in the last week and both tests were positive.  A household full of people, even if they are very careful, can be easily exposed.  Our hope now is that Ethan will escape with a negative test and we can all go back to "normal!"

"Positive" emails

Covid calendar for our house

Paper Snowflake Star

 Ashton and I got our craft on this week and made a paper snowflake star!  It turned out pretty and we hung it to admire.