It was a very non-traditional holiday for us this year. We had a wonderful dinner with friends last night and the boys got to open some presents, play with other bigger kids, and be silly in someone else’s house. Today we just tried to relax and not worry about anything, but that always seems to backfire.

We continued our playground exploration with a new park. We will call this one “the one with the airplanes” because of its proximity to the airport.

Trevor kept saying, “Gramma is on that airplane.” Then he finally told me that Gramma lives on an airplane. I bet she felt that way for a while!

Trevor’s had a lot of practice on his own “combo” so he is getting good at these diggers.

A tunnel under the road to explore…

I was trying to take a selfie with Brendan on my shoulders, but it just doesn’t work well with my giant camera. 🙂

One single chocolate covered pretzel…

Me too, Trevor

Time for yard work

We took this tree down in our backyard years ago, and today Bill just felt inspired to dig out the stump. With help, of course.

Last night, I saw a news story about the International Space Station being visible on Christmas Eve in the evening. The idea of the story was to take your kids out and look for it and then convince them it was Santa. I am not sure how I feel about that whole thing, but I did think it would be cool to show the boys the station. It was cloudy last night, but tonight was a better location anyway.

I think the boys liked the experience. They were excited about it, even though it was just a moving dot of light.

It might dip below freezing here tonight or tomorrow overnight. I hope everyone everywhere is warm and happy. Merry Christmas!