We took the kids back to Fall City Farms to pick out pumpkins. It was a slightly different experience Covid-style. When we arrived we realized we were supposed to have an appointment but it didn’t end up mattering because they had openings so we got in fine. There were no fresh donuts, but they did have some prepackaged, so the kids weren’t disappointed. We wore our masks, social distanced, and picked out some pumpkins.


 

The Club has an annual swimming for pumpkins event. They crank up the heat in the pool and let the kids jump in and pick out free pumpkins then warm up with hot cocoa. They loved it!

Time to carve:

Between the pandemic and election stress we decided to put our tree up pretty early in November. Here are a few pics of us getting in the Christmas spirit.

Opening their Christmas ornaments

Earmuffs from Grammy

The family room tree

Phoebe barely squeezed into Commodus’ old Santa suit for a photo op. We passed it on to her friend, Honey Lott, who is a bit slimmer and fits into it better. I’m sure she really appreciated it.

Modeling her cute snowman outfit

The election was something else this year. We had the Lotts over for an election night “redo”. We spent election night 2016 together and we all know how sad that turned out. We had a conversation ahead of time about whether it would be bad luck to get together or an opportunity to create a new happier memory together and decided we were more hopeful than superstitious.

Later in the night things got a bit stressful. Honestly I think we were all starting to feel sick. No bad news, but no good news and things were too close to feel anything but nervous. We decided to play some games and watch ASMR on TV.

At one point I said I needed a paper bag to breathe into. Layla heard me and brought this.

“Go! Bi! Den!”

A few days later…

Celebrating with the Christians

Watching Kamala with our daughters was memorable