Christmas Eve 2018

We had a perfect day for working outside although it started pretty frosty with the thermometer reading 23 degrees.  Mark and Mackenson used the skid steer to fill pot holes in the drives.  Joan had Nancy, Hannah, Faith and Berlica helping with cleaning out the woods by the cabin.  I snapped the pictures below when coming back from watering mom's plants.

Faith isn't in the picture as she was driving the Kubota. No pictures of Mark and Mackenson, they were working in a different area.  Mom and Sarah met Rachel and Jessica on the beach this morning and sent a couple pictures but it was pretty early, cloudy and pretty dark. A bit later though Sarah sent a picture of Diane learning how to use this very dangerous toy that all the kids seem to like.

I say dangerous as Katie sent the video below:

Diane scraped her elbow and has some bruises but is fine.  It is nice to see they are having warm sunny weather in Gulf Shores. 

I got some house cleaning done, 2 loads of laundry and 2 stalls cleaned. Such and easy relaxing day. It was Christmas Eve which use to be the biggest day of the year when we were growing up. We always heard the Christmas story and opened our gifts on Christmas eve when we were children. Then on Christmas day got up early to get our stockings then go to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We followed this routine  when our kids were young but now all of our kids are grown and have families of their own. There are no presents to give to excited children and no stockings to fill tonight just a quiet evening and an early night. BUT there are still Christmas lights to share. LOTS of beautiful Christmas lights. This holiday light display in Pennsylvania has been awarded the best outdoor Christmas display in the world!