December Arrived

Blog About Fall 2020

On December 1st, there was a light frost on the ground and we were so excited! We were hoping for snow, and we are "snow" thankful we got to see some actual snow before we flew back overseas, but my condolences to those of you who endured the Snowpocalypse that hit Texas in January, a few days after we left.

Caleb continued to play soccer until we left in January and loved it! He was coached well and learned a lot. Now that we're back, he misses these big fields and disciplined coaching.

December 3, 2020

My daughter had been seeing these giant squish-mellows online while we were overseas, and it was so easy to say, "I'm so sorry, honey. I wish they had those here." 

But back in America, she decided this was one of the gifts she would like to have for Christmas. I left it at the store and went to ponder with Doug how we would get it back in our luggage (because we needed all our weight for school books and new clothes we had purchased).

Doug was optimistic and said, "We can get it back. No problem." 

And he was right. This cow with a unicorn horn (I'm joking, of course) shipped easily in a box and arrived shortly after we did. Keira lies on it when watching movies, sits on it while playing, and sleeps with it every night taking up half her bed.

Yeah for giant squish-mellows...

December 4, 2020

We took advantage of beautiful weather and having an outside eating area as much as we could. This is a real treat we don't often get to do at our home overseas, mainly because we live in a city in a house with no grass and a tiny, tiled sitting area.

Caleb and Doug also took advantage of a place to throw the football.
 

This same night, Karis and Keira had their holiday ballet performance. It was first planned to be inside with just a few people, but more relatives and friends wanted to see it.

The first two performances were put on zoom for others to see, and the studio let in a few people to each one. We watched online first, so I just drove the girls and dropped them off.

Karis' friend came to the first performance,

and then Doug and I drove up for the second performance.