Christmas 2025

On Christmas Eve, we hosted the sister missionaries for dinner, Sister Tobie Polanco from Arizona and Sister Mikaela Christensen from Provo, Utah (Timpview HS).  We had a delicious ham dinner with some great dessert of chocolate cream pie and brownies.  We also had a musical program.  Westley and Jonah played trumpet together (Westley played on the old coronet in the guest bedroom).  Annmarie and Eliza each sang a solo.  We then read Luke II with singing Christmas songs throughout the story.  Then we opened our ornaments and I had bought some special Texas ornaments for the missionaries.  It was such a fun Christmas Eve.

Christmas Day was the usual.  We lined them up.  Travis was even represented with the South African flag hanging from the top of the stairs.  We opened stockings, then presents and had our big breakfast.

I worked really hard and gave my mom a drawing I had done of me, her, and her mom all of us around the age of 20 or so.  I used photos that I had from those ages and composed them into a picture. I did use AI to help by having it create the picture and then I used it as a basis for my drawing.  Alejandra and Westley gave Corey and me these great Mexican shirts (they probably have a name but I don't know it).  They were so nice!  On Christmas Day, some of us drove up to Plano's Deerfield Neighborhood and walked through Christmas lights.  We also had our chicken nuggets and applesauce on Christmas Day.

The day after Christmas, we had a breakfast gathering with the Fowles family and played some games.  It was a fun time. All in all, a very good Christmas!