Christmas 2021

 The dust has settled a bit on our family Christmas celebration! We got to play host this year and our family came to us. Couldn't do it without grandma, she does half the preparation and more than half of the cooking! I'm amazed at my lack of pictures. Oops.

Love seeing my nieces and nephews and we were only missing one this year. We all figure as the kids get older this will happen from time to time. 

I hope everyone had a good break and I'm just going to keep rolling into this break with a week off of work. I think a road trip is in order! 

Gifts for the boys this year was Kayaks (inflatable), Preston Merch, Chiefs Merch
and cologne and smelly stuff! 

They are cousins but they look like brother and sister!

Santa brought Alex a projector drawing toy. 

Christmas eve was a nice night to walk at Zoo Lights!

On Christmas Eve I also finished my knitted dish towels! 
Yay me! 

Tennis Anyone?!

 Alex got introduced to tennis this summer during summer camp at Genesis. He has good hand eye coordination so he wanted me to sign him up for the tennis drills this fall. He has done three sessions of drills, and Friday got to play kids from another gym. He was so excited! He played two doubles matches and one singles. They play on a smaller court and the youth were calling their own in's and out's and doing their own scoring. 

That is a learning curve for your first tennis matches and he did great! He is going to take a break while he does indoor soccer this winter but he definitely wants to come back to tennis and that makes me happy. Very few head injuries in tennis! 

That was Friday night in Overland Park, KS and the boys went home with dad and Mom and I got to bed late for my standards. Not for her, she goes to bed later than me every night! No real plans this weekend except to get the rest of the holiday gifts wrapped. So it was totally on a whim that I ended up at the KU men's basketball game Saturday night. Tickets were super affordable and it was a great game! I don't remember the last time I was in Allen Fieldhouse so it was a very cool thing to do last minute. :-) 

This was after his first match and they didn't win, so 
it's a pretty forced smile. That's OK had to document anyway! 

Playing doubles! 

There is no bad seat in AFH! 

Just measuring up my size 8 shoes to Raef Lafrentz Size 17!

Feeling that Christmas Spirit

 We are almost halfway through December and it's starting to feel like Christmas. Mom and I actually got the decorations all up last weekend and yesterday I wrapped all the presents! Most years I'm doing that hours before they are going to be unwrapped, a tad stressful. 

  So at this point to have the Christmas cards in the mail I'm feeling pretty good about Christmas 2021. We have even been to a couple of gatherings already! Last week Daryl had his first 4-H Exchange Christmas party and his team won the make a snowman contest. Daryl got to be the snowman. 

Last night we had Potwin Christmas complete with a horse drawn wagon ride to see the lights. The food, friends and lights were amazing. Two weeks to go and the mantra is to enjoy the friends and family and not procrastinating the holiday tasks. We got this! 

Pepe and Lola are ready to party!

On the wagon ride.

In front of the horses! 

Daryl the Snowman!