For the first time in many years we had Christmas with no family visiting. It was just the 6 of us!
We did something new for Christmas Eve. We attended the Christmas Eve Service at church. Byron and I joined the choir right before COVID hit and starting in August I joined the Praise Team. The Praise Team members sang at the service. When we got home we FaceTimed with Aunt Amanda and set out cookies for Santa.
Since we had no houseguests, we got up at 4am to open gifts. Byron has wanted to do that forever because his family used to get up that early on Christmas morning. It made for a LOOOOONG day!
Santa brought Faith a LOL Doll.
He brought Selah the Mama Mia Soundtracks.
Mig and Gabe both got BB Guns!
I must have been very good this year - Santa brought me a new computer.
We have had some crazy troubles with it, though....a few days after setting it up, the computer started to lock up randomly. We took it to the Geek Squad. The "fixed" it and gave it back. Then it started doing it again! We took it back to exchange it, but they said they have to work on it 3 times before they will exchange it. This time they completely reinstalled the Operating System. So far...so good.
Toby was a little confused about the whole Christmas thing...
Aunt Jackie always picks out the best shoes!
We have LOVED Hamilton the Musical! Each kiddo got a Hamilton shirt.
One of the other ladies on Praise Team's husband just released a book...GiGi bought it for Gabe and I had him sign it!
I really was hoping for a fedora...
I found a really great VCR at a local thrift shop and bought it for Byron. He spent much of the day watching home videos.
GiGi and PopPop also gave us a saranwrap ball!! We FaceTimed them while playing the game.
It was a quiet, but memorable Christmas!
