Bye-Bye 2020

 You will not be missed!!!!  Although, as Jack said tonight at dinner, it's not like 2021 is going to be any different.  We are going to wake up and COVID is still going to be here.....ugh....so true!!  Cannot wait for these vaccines to get rolled out so we can hopefully all move on!

I will be the first to admit, during this all, I really have enjoyed the slow-down time.  It hasn't ALL been bad, but I AM ready for NORMAL!!!  Whatever normal is going to look like again.  

Our NYE is consisting of Peyton locked in her room, we ate frozen pizza for dinner, Maddie and I are working on some Legos and Jack and Mike are putting together Mike's new desk......getting rowdy over here!!!

Here's to a happy and healthy 2021!!!!  Cheers friends......the year 2020 will be one that my future grandkids will read about in history books.  What a year!!!!  

Quarantine Roblox

 The quarantine Roblox has gotten SERIOUS!!!  She now needs to have the PC, phone, and iPad.....hilarious!!!  Who would have ever guessed she would enjoy playing online games with her friends as much as Jack?!?!  She's giving him a good run for his money!!!

The post I was hoping to AVOID.....

 I was really hoping we were going to escape this pandemic without this, but unfortunately we are not.  Peyton tested positive for COVID the Monday after Christmas.  She had a stuffy nose for a day or two and then lost her taste and smell.  She was suppose to play in a basketball tournament all week, so I found her a rapid test Monday morning.  Sure enough, came back positive.  She has since then been quarantined to her room.  I bring her food up to her room in an N95, and anytime she has to come out to go to the bathroom we make her wear an N95.  We have moved the other two kids to the basement.  

We are now all stuck in this house in quarantine!!!!  Mike did get his vaccine a few days before this (I DID tell him to take a selfie when getting it so I could blog about it, but he didn't listen).....healthcare workers get to go to and from work as long as they are not experiencing symptoms.  So Mike has been going to work and the rest of us are trapped in the house for a while.  

It is now Thursday and Peyton is feeling fine.  She does not have a stuffy nose any more and she said she can taste and smell SOME things.....so she's getting better.  Now we just pray the rest of us don't get it.  

We have no idea where she got it because of the timing of it.  The only people she has seen are her basketball teammate and us.  Besides the ice skating the night before, but they were masked appropriately in the car the entire time and masks are required at ice skating too....so I don't know.  Either one of us has it and is asymptomatic or one of her teammate is asymptomatic....it's the only thing we can come up with.  

My waitress costume.....

Her pediatrician wanted to do a televisit with both her and I.....so we did it outside on the porch, while masked....

Peyton and Co

 Peyton and a few friends wanted to go ice-skating the day after Christmas.....so they bundled up and masked up, and off they went......

Chiefs Game Roadtrip

 The Dads and Lads left the day after Christmas for Kansas City.  The left St. Louis around 3:30, got to KC and got checked into their hotel rooms.  They went for a bite to eat and hung out for a little while before heading to bed.  They got up the next morning, tailgated a little bit, and then head in for the noon game.  Jack had a great time!!!  He texted me a few pictures throughout the time they were gone, which definitely meant he was loving it, or he never would have done that!  When they walked in that night, he walked in with a big old smile.  The Chiefs only won by 3 points and Mahomes had a terrible game and cost Jack his fantasy football championship that day!!  Ya win some and ya lose some.....

Christmas

 Christmas a just a tad different this year, not too much tho.  The only things different and missing were Grandma and Grandpa Farm and GiGi.  Due to COVID (the theme of 2020) it wasn't safe for the to come. Christmas went on, even though we felt their absence.  

Maddie woke us up around 7:00, Grandma Jeanne and Mark got here around 7:40, Maddie was the only kid up at that point.  Jack joined shortly after.  We let Maddie wake Peyton up around 8:30 and then the party began!  

Maddie found Daisy had TP-ed the entire main floor pretty darn good.  She was then hiding in Peyton's gingerbread house, with the Tik-Tok light shining right on her.  Maddie thought this was pretty funny!

The kids were very happy with all the things!  Maddie got a new iPad and gymnastics equipment for American Girl Doll, Jack got a mini fridge and microwave for his man cave and tickets to a Chiefs game, and Peyton got a TV and and wall tapestry of her favorite boy band (One Direction).  Everyone seemed thrilled!!!!  Jess got a new fire pit for outside and Mike got some new clothes and AirPods.  

After all the gifts were open, Maddie wrote a song for each person.  She worked her little heart out on these, for weeks!!!!  She sang to each person, while playing her guitar.  It was the most thoughtful and cutest thing ever.  Mark got them all videoed and put together on one clip.  

We then ate.....all the normal Christmas morning foods: Grandma Jeanne's biscuits and gravy, Maddie's monkey bread, and egg casserole.  Mark and Jeanne hung out for a while and then they went home.  

We then took down all the Christmas decorations, and then I realized I forgot one of Maddie's gifts!!!!  So she got one last surprise that night.  All the fixings for more SLIME!!!!  I cannot believe this girl still has such  love for this stuff, but she does!!!!  She was very much excited!!!  A perfect evening capper.  

Silly Daisy.....Tik-Toking away.....

Chiefs game!!!!  And later that day he found out JVC and Jackson Riney were going too!

ROBUX!!!!  The girl is obsessed!!!!  

I can't remember what the high five was for here????.......

IPAD.......oh so HAPPY!!!!

Singing to Peyton......

And to Jack.......

And to Dad.....I'm pretty sure this is when she was singing about him not liking to waste money.....she knows her Dad very well!!!

Mike had her up and running by early evening......and I'm pretty sure we won't see much of her again....

And we are probably finished seeing him for a while as well.......

Her one last forgotten gift!!!  Was a late night surprise!!!!  SLIME!!!

Christmas Eve

 Mike worked during the day on Christmas Eve, so the kids and I went to Top Golf for a bit.  The scores are hilarious.....I am anything BUT consistent with my golf game......check that out!  We then came home, Mike got home, we ordered pizza, played a game, and called it a night.  Peyton was less than thrilled to give up her phone and go to bed at 9:30 so that Santa could come.  HA!  

This was about the time we caught Peyton cheating.  Saying circus and carnival were the same thing, and finding a cheat zone in the side of the glasses......