We've had a wonderful Christmas season and are sad it's over! There were some fun and festive events at school to get us in the spirit ...
Harding Academy Elf on the Shelf
Case's first band concert
Live-streamed so our families could watch
Emery's class's fine arts performance for the Admissions office
Holiday Snapchat filter fun ...
Since we didn't make it to Waverly for Thanksgiving, we decided to go the weekend before Christmas.
Christmas Eve with all our people was so good! 2020 won't go down in history as our favorite year ever but we will always be grateful for the gift of time it gave us with our expanded family. Dozens of dinners around the table, conversations about racial justice, card game controversies, church services from the couch, bandwidth overage charges and so much more. So while it's not our favorite, we will still cherish its memories. Merry Christmas 2020, everyone!
Christmas Eve Zoom with the Fowlkes to open presents.
Santa came! Those kids must have been good this year!
The fall has flown by! We've been busy with school and sports like normal, although things are still very abnormal.
the Bible ceremony at Harding was virtual this year so James couldn't be there. I was thrilled to be able to be there as a participant and even received my own Harding Bible. It was a special day for both Case and me. I'm sure it'll feel like no time before he's walking back across the stage as a high school graduate, same Bible in hand.
Cross Country State Bound Send Off
Back to school schedule got us like ...
And like ...
Virtual Happy in Memphis 5k
Soccer tournament for Em
Soccer tourney for Case
Finalists
And then Case and James tested positive for Covid-19 the week of Thanksgiving, so we had a nice quarantined Thanksgiving at home. Case and James mostly stayed upstairs in the playroom and Emery and I started downstairs. Somehow, we both escaped getting it. CJ too.
Entertaining ourselves with Snapchat filters. We were a bit stir crazy!
It wasn't the Thanksgiving we had planned, but we were thankful that the boys weren't too sick and that we were still able to have some fun. We were also WELL taken care of by many friends in our Memphis village. We are most grateful for our village that took such great care of us when we couldn't get out and about.
