Hello! This holiday season has been so much quieter. I do miss all of the concerts and special events but I'm also enjoying not feeling rushed to get everything done. We started our week with getting our Christmas tree and were even blessed with some amazing snow.
Saturday - Our Tree!
Isn't the snow beautiful? It was so unexpected. We left home in pouring rain. As we drove just 35 minutes north and as we drove the rain changed to slush, then to sleet, and then to snow. It was snowing hard by the time we got to picking out our tree which was amazing. It is so much nicer to go Christmas tree hunting in the snow!!
Sunday - After getting home Saturday evening from getting out tree, I had a zoom call with my brothers and mom plus our tree was covered in snow and ice. We decided to let it dry out for the night and we would decorate it today.
The tree before. Now, lets keep it real. When Nate cut the baling string off of it and it flopped open, we all just sat and starred at the monstrostity HA! It looked nothing like the tree we cut down now that it was in our living room! Well, Darryl went to work and cut off some branches so it wasn't overtaking the couch and cut some of the crazy top branches off so we had a place for the star and it started to look much better.
Darryl had help with the lights.
Adding the ornaments.
The finished tree. It really is beautiful all covered and lights and ornaments.
Monday - Today was school as Josh is working hard to wrap up his semester work (Nate is two science lesson away from being done). My mom treated us to Culvers for lunch as today was their grand opening here in our town. There was some fun had with this years advent calendars too.
Tuesday - School! Josh focused on Science and finished up his Food Web project. We also went and saw some lights with my mom.
First, we went church display that was set to music and it was awesome!!
Then we went to another town and saw their lights including the covered bridge.
Wednesday and Thursday were "just school" trying to wrap up things before Christmas break.
Friday - Once our friends finished up their schooling, we had a Christmas party! First up, I had my mom picked up pizza for lunch as a treat!
After lunch, we worked on an ornament craft painting snowflakes. After that, we played some Christmas Bingo!!
The four friends before we opened gifts!
Finally, we also celebrated Nate's birthday with our friends! It was a busy afternoon :-)
So, that was our week - lots of fun and festivities!
