Christmas Day 2020

The line-up

George got an electric bass guitar

Cannon got his own set of D&D books

We highly recommend the children's book SumoKitty

I think it's pretty sad that a four year old was excited to get masks for Christmas, but they were Frozen masks-- so that is something.

I think of all her gifts, Elinor was the most excited about her BTS tapestry wall hanging.

George really wanted these bouncy shoes, but I don't think he thought he would actually get them.   This was probably the moment I was the most excited to witness on Christmas morning.  I adore his expression in this picture.  He was surprised and so excited.  He's been wearing them around the house a lot the last few days.  They aren't quite as Tiggery bouncy as he hoped, but as he gets bigger he'll probably get a bigger bounce out of them.

I loved this game as a kid.

We gave them a family picture from their wedding.

And they gave one to us-- except that the one they gave us was in a hand-painted frame!  Way to show us up:)

And we gave one to Bethany since she's about to move out on her own again in January.

Both Clark and Cannon got nice chess sets.

New game controllers.  

Greta got a robotic kitty and I got "Mommy Kitty" pajamas.  Almost everything Greta got was kitty related.

Faith gave Abe a new scarf

Bethany as already gotten a lot of great use from her new acoustic/electric guitar.  

Some people like to keep things neat and tidy while opening presents.  Abe likes to see how big we can make our pile of wrapping paper trash.  To each his own.

The fox masks are kind of creepy and kind of cool.

Faith got a new phone.  She had been using Clark's old mission phone and will enjoy a slight upgrade.

A Spike Ball set from Jesse and Amy's family

We've been having so much fun playing new games this week.  

A hoped for video game

 Elinor got a computer she can take up to school this fall.  Speaking of school, she has decided she will be an Aggie up at Utah State University.

And I got a robe.

You really must go watch this sketch to understand why we all got a good laugh out of my robe.  But seriously, I do like this robe.

I suppose it's now a tradition that the oldest child give me a framed picture of the two of us the Christmas before they move out.  Elinor gave me my favorite picture of us at the regions swim meet last year.  

Elinor has had a rough senior year as she has been working through some mental health challenges.  I am grateful for the relationships we have and the willingness on all sides to try to understand one another and do our best to love each other through hard times.

I know next to nothing about playing it, but I'm going to have the boys teach me what they know about playing the bass.  It's just too cool.

Of course someone had to get a remote control car.  This year it was Peter and he's been having a lot of fun with it.  And... miraculously... five days out and I believe it still works!  That's some sort of record for us.

His walkie-talkies have also been a big hit.  He and his friend, who lives half a block away, were over-the-moon excited to discover that the walkie-talkies worked from their houses.

Abe's British fried breakfast

The traditional picture of Abe and his Christmas feast

Andrea invited us to a private late night showing of Wonder Woma 84.  Cannon and George and the littles stayed home and the beanie crew all went.  

Honestly, kind of a terrible movie-- but it didn't matter because it was so much fun to get to go to a movie all together.  Thanks, Andrea!

Merry Christmas 2020!