Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Post-Christmas, Pre-Anniversary

Chugging right along through the holidays......

On Saturday the 26th we drove over to Reid Park in Tucson.  I grew up going to this park.  The zoo (in the park) is expanding, and unless people can get it stopped, they plan on removing this big hill and one of the duck ponds to make space for more animals. 



  



People are not happy about it. 


As we walked into one of the playground areas I told the kids I used to play on these turtles all the time.  They completely did not understand what I meant by that. Ha!  Spencer was like, "so you stood on a concrete turtle and called that play".  Hey, it was the 80's!



There were some beautiful trees in full color. 
On Sunday the 27th Michael and the kids went to go see his parents.

My mom and I took a very successful trip to the good Ross in Tucson. 

And made a double batch of laundry detergent.

My dad and I had boozy mochas. 
That evening I drove over to my brother's house to get some rotating shelves he no longer wanted to keep. 

This little bun bun was hanging out by my car when I left.
I ended up staying for a glass of wine and a zoom meeting with some friends. 
 
My phone was sitting on the table and was open on the camera.  I thought this looked artistic. 

The zoom was open in front of football.  I found it to be very distracting. 

I drove home on the 28th.  I took this picture to show Michael I was on my way.  They came home a few hours after me.

I stopped for some Eegees (a local sandwich place) on the way.  This was the drive-thru.
And this was the car when I got home.  It was extra crammed because I had both of the big shelves in the back. 



I had just finished unpacking everything when Michael and the kids got home.  I even carried and set up the shelves for Spencer's room. 

They rotate, so there are shelves on the back too, but this is what I did with the front.  I like it!

Upcoming schedule:
Our anniversary
The 30th, 31st and 1st
Hello 2021

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Christmas Day

Santa came!  There were some doubts that he would, so it was a relief to wake up to lots of goodies.  Side note.....Christmas 2020 was the first time since Spencer was a toddler that we didn't leave cookies and milk for Santa and carrots and water for the reindeer.  We're past that.  It's happy and sad.  It's bittersweet.

 




Elliott was jazzed.



Once we got Spencer out of bed he was pretty happy too. 

Last Christmas I never would have thought that masks would be a normal gift to give someone.


Gifts from Elliott



Gifts from Spencer


A glorious mess!

The official 2020 Christmas Day picture.

My uncle and my brother and sister-in-law came over to eat that afternoon, but the only picture I took was of the plum pudding.  I got a video too, but what the heck?  What was I doing?  No preservation of memories?  Fail!


Michael and I bought two of these "countdown to New Year" wine boxes for ourselves.  Spoiler alert.....I'm writing this on January 5th  and we still haven't finished all of the bottles. 


Monday, January 4, 2021

Christmas Eve

We drove down to Tucson on Christmas eve.  We took separate cars, and I stopped at Lois and Jerry's first to drop off their gift. 


Nothing like a good ol' fashioned front door gift drop during a pandemic. 
My mom had put up all of the decorations which was very nice considering they weren't doing any of the usual entertaining they do. 


We went to Nick's house for dinner.  Our official Christmas Eve family photo- 2020. 


Then it was time for NOG.  I made this nog on January 3rd, 2020 and it aged the whole year. 

It was goooooooooood. 



Dinner was outside at separate tables.  





There were mask angels.



Dinner is served.


I made the potatoes.



Nick made a delightful buche de noel for dessert. 



Gifts- Spencer got Nick's old paintball gun and all the accessories. 

I ordered this stitch people for Nick and Raquel.

Trying on my grandfather's wedding ring.  He had tiny fingers!!!