Christmas 2022

We had snow this year for Christmas.  Well, kind of.  It snowed off and on a lot the days leading up to Christmas, but not much stuck.  The little bit of snow we had was fun for the kids.  Something even better than snow happened this year, my parents came.  It was great to have family to be with this year for the holiday.

We were freezing though, and even inside our house was cold.  One of our heaters wouldn't work and we keep blowing circuits just to keep the heat and lights on.  We did convince them to send someone out to look at our heater and they said it was too cold for it to work and we should wait a few days for it to warm up outside then it will start working.  Bob had to convince them that we needed heat and weren't going to wait for it to warm up outside.  They ended up replacing it after a few days and I can tell a huge difference.  Our house is still very poorly insulated and we do not have central heating so some areas of our house are cold.  But now we can keep the family room warm, so I'm grateful.  

Christmas morning is always exciting.

It was Sunday so we had to hurry off to church.  Bob was a little extra stressed because it was his first year being the branch president for Christmas Sunday.  Things went pretty smoothly though.  Our family played the bells and sang "Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus."

I threw this picture in here because I had to work over Christmas break.  Not on Christmas itself, but up until it and then again right after.  It is my first year working like this up to Christmas, and it was a little hard.  I wish I could be home with the family.  In this picture I'm "volunteering" with the USO.  I'm technically working because this event was during my work ours and I was getting paid by Navy Federal but I was helping out at the USO.

We went to the local park/woods a few times over the break including on Christmas Day.  We even found a gigantic version of a plant I have in my windowsill.  I wonder if mine will get that big.

Merry Christmas!