So, due to COVID and such, Christmas break was a little more low key and local this year. However, we did do a couple of fun things around town. Kylie wanted to see the movie "The Croods 2" and we invited a bunch of friends. I think, other than our group, there were 10 other people in the theater. That movie was . . . interesting, to say the least.
After the movie we let the kids play on the playground in the outdoor mall for a bit and took a few pics with all the cool Christmas decor.
Aly took the redeye flight and buzzed into town Christmas Eve morning. Our house got a lot louder once she arrived. It was good to have her back again. We had a delish Flank Steak Christmas Eve dinner and then made some cookies for Santa. Chris was not able to come home for Christmas, but we did Zoom with him for a couple hours and did our Christmas Eve traditions of letting the girls open their gifts to each other, watching the Nativity movie, and writing down our gifts to the Savior for the year.
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| Love how Lise is creepily photobombing in the background. |
Christmas morning did not disappoint as Santa totally delivered, bringing books, candy, and chips - it doesn't get better than that! 😉😆
We were able to Zoom again with Chris on Christmas morning, which was fun. Unfortunately, due to the post office that his mail comes through getting completely destroyed during the hurricanes in November, his Christmas packages had not yet arrived.😔 Sad. This year there were a lot of clothes and such given out. As for the big boxes, they were family gifts filled with blow up kayaks and a paddle board. Christmas Evening we were invited to dinner with another family, which was a ton of fun.
Once Christmas was over, some people just weren't ready to let it go . . . I on the other hand was ready to move on from all the sugar to a healthy smoothie.
The rest of Christmas break was pretty chill. Aly had her humongo Brandon Sanderson book that she needed to finish before she started her mission. She bet Kylie that she wouldn't be able to finish the last two books in the Percy Jackson series before Aly finished her one book. Never underestimate the competetive nature of my children to get the motivation juices flowing. Thanks Aly, for getting Kylie to sit and read for hours on end just to beat her older sister. (Kylie did win, btw)
We knocked out a couple of puzzles on my awesome puzzle board - love it!
Kate wanted to go ice skating over the break. Now, you wouldn't think there'd be ice skating in Florida, but there is. It's this really teeny rink inside a tent that gets kind of slushy because it's 60 degrees outside, but it's ice skating nonetheless.
The rink is located at Baytowne Wharf and we had some fun walking around at the shops afterwards (and catching a few lizards).
Anyway, back in Honduras, Chris's packages luckily arrived a couple of days after Christmas and so we were able to see him open up his stuff.
I love his mini Christmas tree with emoji ornaments! 😁😂
SOTO CANO also had a few festivities during the month of December, including Christmas band, a tree lighting, and a Christmas feast. Whoo-hoo!
Another cool thing is that one of the guys Chris works with had one of the tent stakes they used during the hurricanes finished and carved to reflect the event and presented it as a gift to Chris. Pretty cool.
And finally, speaking of cool homemade gifts and gadgets, Chris created this sheath for one of his knives. Neato-skeeto. Glad he had something to do over the Christmas holidays.
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