Well, as usual, we didn’t get any posts in the last half of the year so we have to play catch-up in the spring. Nothing too exciting happened after our visitors left last year, but we did get some house projects completed – that will be another post though. The holiday season went by without any hiccups and this year we made it through the whole season without anyone getting sick… this was a major victory for us! Overall, we had a nice holiday season, Gung Gung was here through February so we got to spend some time with him as well. Everyone did work a lot of hours, 35-40 for everyone except Dad and he was the usual 50-60, but by February everything had calmed down and we were all starting to catch up on our rest. Below are some pictures throughout the back half of the year.

Sam bought a Honda 2021 CRV and he went on 3 dives during the summer – this was the most he has done in several years due to weather and/or poor visibility, so he was pretty excited. He has 2 more scheduled this year as well.

Alex bought a new Pit Boss grill before we moved, but we were never able to put it together because we didn’t really have the space. Since we added the grill patio last year we also had some extra space for his grill and he has practicing ever since.

Mom and Alex had birthday’s in August – Alex got some more grill supplies and Mom got a new fancy hose reel for the yard.

We had a full menu on Thanksgiving, but overall it was pretty relaxed as we all had to work long hours the next day. We did get to open a few early Christmas presents – a new inflatable for Dad and everyone got Advent Calendars from Nana.

We added a couple of small Christmas trees downstairs this year and the Christmas village grew even bigger as apparently more people moved to North Carolina last year.

We had our first significant snowfall in quite a few years in February, along with a couple of ice events were the roads were virtually impossible to drive on.