Christmas Eve

 

I have no pictures from Christmas Eve, but above, if you look in the sky between the trees you will see the "Christmas Star" that I took a picture of on December 21st.  It is really two planets close together, but it was pretty fun to see since it only happens every few hundred years!  You can find it in the picture below too.

Christmas Eve day seemed long.  I don't even remember what we did!  On Christmas Eve we were able to go over to Derek's parents house in the evening and take some pizza with us.  We wore our masks until we had food and we were sitting at a different table than his parents, but it was nice to get to do a little something that was "normal" for us to do.  

After dinner Derek read out of a journal Derek's Mom had him write in years ago and so we could enjoy his perspective as a 16 year old at Christmas time, and then we went downstairs and sang songs to my girls playing the piano or me playing guitar until it was time to hurry to the cemetery where more family showed up and we sang Silent Night by family grave stones in the candle light.  The cemetery is always beautiful on Christmas Eve with candles everywhere!