A low-key Christmas.

December 21

Tay, Nae and V stopped by and got sucked into our puzzling.

This was a gift from our dear friends the Billats.

It was a 1000 piece puzzle, and was super fun to put together.

Yep, we did it in a night.

December 22

Christmas lights drive-by. This house was just around the corner from us.

December 24

Fondue, family, and friends.

 (Imagine bread cubes in that empty bowl haha)

Followed by the Christmas story. V loved helping.

We Silent Night (and V danced) while Mar played the guitar.

Then V opened her beautiful robe from her mom and dad.

We decided that V should open our gift to her that evening.

Apparently we neglected to snap a pic of the opened gift - a microphone karaoke set with disco lights.

We were treated to several renditions of Since You've Been Gone, courtesy of our rock star.

Then we had dessert - chocolate fondue, of course.

Tay, Nae and V headed home to prepare for Santa's visit, and Mar hit the hay early, so Bill and I and our dear friends the Gouberts played games until past midnight.

Christmas day was super low-key.

We got up when Mar gave us a jingle on the phone (her bedroom is in the basement, we're on the top floor), and opened gifts. Mar mainly got things for her mission... luggage and such. Bill got a couple suits that he had picked up the week prior (no, I didn't wrap them). I got a new set of pots and pans.

It was nice.

Then we got ready for our day and headed to the movies.

First we went to see Cats.

I have never seen this musical and wasn't sure what to expect after all the terrible reviews. I was pleasantly surprised that I found it more enjoyable than I had anticipated. I liked the dancing and the music, didn't mind the weird story (knowing it was, after all, about cats), and endured the weird digital costuming, background, and humans-trying-to-act-like-cats.

Then we saw Jumanji with the Gouberts.

During our game-playing the evening prior they suggested we go together. I had already purchased the tickets to Cats (which they didn't want to see), but Bill and Mar were on board to go to TWO movies, so we nabbed those tickets, too. We literally walked from one movie into the next. It wasn't too bad, although I may have slept through a smidgen of Jumanji haha.

Tay, Nae, and V came over that evening and we opened my fave gift from my kids - the 2019 chatbook of the grandkids. We also got some super fun outdoor games from some of them. I can't wait to play them. We also opened some gifts from my parents - we had waited until Nae was there because all the girls were getting the same thing and we wanted to open them together. They were these aprons made from mi padre's old shirts. Such a fun gift!

I think these are literally the only two pics I took that day.

We also started another puzzle.

It was a nice low-key day.