This Christmas was totally 2020. The kids had a good time, all of our travel was gone, none of the big family celebrations happened. I did make it down to Greenville for one day just to spend a few hours with my parents - it was the first time I'd seen them since last Christmas. We got our tree on a day trip to Boone, it was really pretty.
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too cute not to share, but this was not how our holiday went down
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The farm where we got our tree
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ready for some presents
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We had a fun time in Boone on a day trip
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We all had on our App State sweatshirts
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The reason we've been making so many day trips to Boone recently - we bought some land up there! 1.09 acres of raw dirt is now ours, paid for in cash. We closed on the 21st, and Lena and I made a trip up there just before that to check out our dirt, thinking we had clear traveling from the snow. Instead, we got this:
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That's our dirt!
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It was cold. She didn't think she needed a jacket when we left the house.
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Cool tree on the next lot
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For actual Christmas it was very different, the first Christmas day ever we didn't have to travel. We did get to pull together an outside, social distanced gathering with Kelley's sister and father.
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We had a nice setup for some outdoor Christmas
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It was cold, but that blanket is fire
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Taking a selfie
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Telling the kids I was just taking a selfie
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Then the Sunday after Christmas, I went down by myself to visit my parents. It was the first time I had seen them in person since last Christmas, which was strange and incredibly difficult. We stayed outside, but still got to have some semblance of a normal holiday gathering.
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My dad and his 3 sons
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My sweet nephew Archie
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and that was our holiday!
