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Christmas Happenings

 Christmas Eve eve, Saturday 12/23 Jayden was discharged from the hospital after her surgery. She was back to her house late morning. On Christmas Eve Ester was in the kitchen from morning until evening. She made a large supply of tamales. She made numerous to freeze. She also made her really good hominy soup. We ate around 7pm and after Jayden fed baby boy, we started games. Ester loves to have lots of fun activities, so we played games for prizes. It was also a pajama theme night so we all wore our pajamas. I happened to throw in Jayden and my fuzzy Christmas pants, so I was prepared. We had a drink competition that they all really got into. Everyone was sure that their drink was going to win. I had a great idea, and mine actually won! It was pretty good, I made chocolate malts and added kalua. I even drizzled chocolate syrup around the inside of the glasses. Their tradition was to open all gifts in the evening. The adult kids all wanted to wait until morning to open gifts, but we still opened in the evening. I was so impressed with my little gift box. It was perfect, a journal, perfume, soap, a Spanish translate book, and a mug and also gloves from Cynthia. It was a good night and I enjoyed being with Noah's family and seeing how they celebrate Christmas. 













Back home, the boys went to church at Stratford, then went to my parents for lunch. They spent the afternoon at my parents, had games, gifts, and goodies. Jake was feeling kind of down about things being so different, remembering Christmas' of the past, Jayden and I not being home, and memories of Aunt Alice. It was an emotional time. It was kind of a rough day for Jake. 

On Christmas morning Mark and the boys opened gifts and we did a facetime for a little while. It is so strange not being all together. Things change more as the kids get older. In TX everyone slept in pretty late. Ester made pancakes around 10:30 for brunch. Ester and Bale along with Cynthia, Jayden and I went to look at the new house. It was so exciting to see! It is looking awesome and is going to be so amazing. We toured each room, there are big closets, 4 bedrooms, one they call my room. The windows are big and they have great views. The lighting and electrical are done. The flooring is looking great and coming along. I hope they make lots of progress and the boys, Mark and I can help with some things. We also toured the future home of Cynthia and Izzie. When I see that house, it screams 60's and 70's and has Jake's name all over it. There is so much about that house that he would just love! I cant wait for him to see it, it has so much character. We also went to see Jayden's horses. Her palomino got his head caught in a door. It was a heavy stall door that he got his head caught in. All he had to do was take a step forward, but as he pulled back, he squeezed tighter and tighter, they thought he was going to suffocate and die. He ended up severely damaging one eye, the other is in bad shape. The property owner who had been doing her chores didn't tell Jayden for several days, not wanting to bother her or have her worry after she had just had the baby. A week later, she and I went to take care of him and he looked pretty rough. I told Jayden she needed to get him to a vet asap. He may go blind, lose the eye, or worse it could be fatal. Jayden did too much today and got pretty sore. In the evening, I was trying to get the 49ers game and Jayden figured out a way to watch on her phone. I wasn't able to start it until halftime and Jayden was willing to watch it with me. Ironically they were playing Noah's favorite team, the Ravens. He decided to watch too. I was telling him about how well the team has done and all about Purdy. I told him now that he is watching they will probably lose. Well as soon as we started watching, things spiraled pretty fast and it was not pretty. The 49ers were having problems, injuries, calls, interceptions, sacks, it wasn't good. In the last quarter, Brock got hurt and was out for the game too. Noah and I were going back and forth and he was grinning the whole way through. When the score was 33:12 he left to play his video games and knew it was over. It was a rough game to watch. It was a different day not being home and all together. It didn't feel like Christmas at all today and that was a little sad. I am looking forward to Mark and the boys coming. 




The evenings are hard for Jayden. Generally by the time she nurses baby, then gives a 2 oz bottle, and changes him, it has been an hour or more. He has his days and nights off and we try to keep him awake more during the day. Noah helps in the night, he also stays up into the wee hours playing his video games making him ultra tired.. All three generally stay in bed until 10 to 11. Colt is such a sweet baby and I love holding him. I like to have him when he wakes up in the daylight morning hours so they can sleep a little longer. We are seeing him growing, filling out more. 

Here is the Olson family in their annual Christmas pajama photo.

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