A Junkin Family Christmas

Well, after a one week delay due to the COVID virus hitting the Davis house, we were able to all get together for Christmas on January 1st, 2021.  I am posting this with a date of 12/31, so it will hopefully be captured in my 2020 blog books.  If you are currently reading this in an actual book, please look to the front of the book and make sure it is labeled as 2020.  If not, please let me know, and I will get it updated.  For anyone reading this from the distant future, just google "book" to see what those were and how they worked.  If you are unfamiliar with the verb form of "google", please use whatever search engine that Elon Musk determined shall be used to search for "book".  

It was nice to see everyone, and get some special time with MawMaw on the porch before all the craziness got started.  And what a beautiful day it was to enjoy being outside (well, the pictures don't reflect that, but believe me, we did venture outside for some time).  Many families were unable to gather, many families lost loved ones this year, many families were hurting due to stressful situations, Many families were without homes due to storms, so as I write these final words of my 2020 blogs, I feel blessed to look down and see the smiles of so many I love.  I look back at a year that brought me closer to my family than ever before.  Don't know what tomorrow may bring, but I am happy for quite a few of the yesterdays I had in 2020.  

 

Quick trip to ATL

It was the last week of the year, and I wanted one more trip to Six Flags for me and Davis' passes, but new Magan would like to visit with Courtney Craig, and Aaron was taking his boys on that Tuesday of the week following Christmas.  So we set off with plans for the boys to be at Six Flags, and the girls to hang out and maybe visit IKEA.  But as we got into Georgia, they texted and said that their little girl was also going to six flags, so it was too late (in COVID reservation times) to get tickets for Belle and Ruby.  So it was a fun day at six flags for me and Davis as we rode most rides with hardly any lines...but since most of the Craigs with us did not ride roller coasters, it would have been so easy and fun to have the girls with us.  UGH...Oh well.  Anabelle let me know they still had fun at Courtney's house learning how to use a pressure cooker...and yes, Anabelle laid the sarcasm on with two coats.  I felt so bad for them...I really thought Caroline would be there to play with them, but they were good sports and just talked about the fun things at the house they did get to do.  

It was really great to visit with Aaron, as we just mainly hung out in many places and let the kids go run ride whatever rides they wanted.  There are few people in this world that I actually like to talk to, and Aaron is in that small group.   Always fun to meet up with folks you haven't seen in a long time, and starting up the conversations is like you just were with each other the previous day.  Haha...and can you tell below that our photographer was a new kid, probably one of his first days of a high school job, and those pictures were sooo blurry...I felt so bad for him, he knew they were bad, and wanted to take another, but the kids were already running towards the scorcher.  When a mom is not there, I am doing my best that we got any picture.  And Aaron let all the kids throw a dart and win a superman cape.  Davis got wonderwoman for the girls.  

 

Christmas Day on Baron Lane