December 2020

 12/31 -1/2/2021 - We spent new years at home for the first time in many years.  Partially because of COVID and partially because we had to get up super early the next day to fly to Miami.  We were heading to Miami to see A&M in bowl game.   We got to walk along the beach some, ate some good food including some Cuban food, and went to bowl game.  We got a suite for 8 of us to separate from others and gave kids some more space to hang out.   Aggies won which was good.  

12/25 - We had Christmas morning just the 5 of us (Patch got Christmas as well).  

The kids, grandma and I went down to visit Nanny.   We didn't get to hug her but got to visit with her a little bit and get a picture with her.  She seemed to be doing ok, but had a hard time hearing us.

Then we went to our house for lunch with the family.  Cindy and Carlos were in town.  We had good food, got to open presents and took a few pictures.

12/24 - We went over to Grammy & Gramps place for Christmas eve.  We had yummy tacos as usual and opened gifts with each other.  Fun time with food, drinks (gramps found how to make margaritas like he used to :)) and family.  Glad we were able to be together.

Kids played new game Grammy gave them.  We watched Kasey's holiday dance performance and Landon's band concert online.  Kids decorated cookies at Grammy's house for Santa.

12/11-13 - A&M game was cancelled because the other team had issues with COVID so we stayed home for the weekend.  Friday evening was a bit busy but fun.  Kasey's dance studio was recording her winter dance number in downtown McKinney.   Landon had a band celebration with a food truck.  After we got both kids where they needed to go, Greg and I headed back to McKinney square.  We sat down at pizza restaurant on ordered a drink before going to get Kasey.

Kasey  joined us for dinner.  Then we headed home so she could change and we headed to Allen football playoff game.   We got to see Landon perform then Greg and I brought K and twins back to the house.  We watched Mandalorian.

After the game Landon went out with horns to get a bite to eat and be social.

Saturday we went for morning walk.  I found a little dog by itself.   I brought it back to the house and called and texted the number.  The dad was working on the yard so didn't get the messages.  We got him back home.  Patch was not happy having another dog in her backyard.   We had Laynes for lunch.

Kasey and I went to deliver some donated toys for our local area then went to Kohls to find her some Christmas pajamas to wear to dance this week.  

Sunday it rained all day and was cold so we had a lazy day!

12/10 - We had to help Landon pick classes for next year.  Interesting process.  Let's just say that Greg and I had some wine during the process.  At any rate, Greg mentioned signing Landon up for dance which we didn't end up doing. He's going to stay with band, he thought about doing football but decided not to and did sign up for a volunteer class to help younger kids.

12/5 - Today we got together 6 girls from our Girl Scout troop to decorate stockings and Christmas trees.  We had Christmas music and the girls had fun decorating - we all had masks on and were spaced apart.    

Christmas letter 2020

 Hello family and friends:

Oh what a year 2020 has been for everyone!  I hope this letter finds you enjoying the holidays and being excited about the end of the year.

I'm still working at TI, my team finished a year+ project this year and now we are working on to new projects for next year.   I'm enjoying my team and got to make multiple positive changes with the team this year that I'm excited about.   I'm still enjoying work and I'm very thankful to have a good job.  We have been working at home since mid March, and are just starting to very slowly go back to the office.  Obviously no traveling this year and don't see that changing much for a while.

For volunteer work this year I'm managing the web site for high school PTSA, co-leading Cadette Girl Scout troop, and VP of membership, co-chairing the web site, and leading 6th grade graduation at the elementary school.  This is my 10th year volunteering at the elementary school - it will be weird to no longer be there next year. I am also trying to volunteer some to help out the band.   

The Girl Scout troop finished up their Bronze award right as we were going into quarantine.  The girls created stuff animals for fireman and first responders to give to kids in tough situations.   We have met a few times outside, virtually or spread out.  Most recently we had the girls decorate stockings and little christmas trees.  We played Christmas music, opened the doors, and kept masks on and girls spread out.  It was fun.

As with many other things this year Greg and Landon's Philmont trip got cancelled.  Greg and the kids still walked  3 1/2 miles pretty much every day from when we went into quarantine until the kids went back to school.  He's still very involved in Landon's Boy Scout Troop doing adult training and organizing board of reviews. He's still doing clubhouse coordination for the neighborhood which has been pretty quiet this year. 

We've still been going to A&M football games when they have them.  With only 25% capacity its pretty easy to spread out.  

Right before quarantine we went to Broken Bow Oklahoma again with the grandparents.  It was no nice to have that before we were all at home.

We did take a few trips over the summer.  We rented a house at Possum Kingdom lake - we had fun being somewhere else with the pool, and we even rented a boat and went tubing one day.  All 4 of us went tubing which was really fun.    We also spent a week at the beach in Alabama and rented a condo right on the beach.  It was really nice and we were able to stay away from people pretty well.  The elevators were the only tough part.  That's about it for this year.

Kasey is now 12 and in 6th grade. She is getting taller and less than an inch shorter than me.  She's taking hip hop and jazz with a friend, and she's also still ding Pom Squad where they perform multiple times during the year (this year that means in a parking lot and they just videod the holiday performance they will share with us before the holiday). Kasey is now in band playing the clarinet - she's taking private lessons and enjoying it.  We actually took her aunts clarinet it to get fixed because she enjoys it.  The girls bridged to Cadettes in Girl Scouts and achieved their Bronze award right before quarantine started.   This year at school she's in KNN crew who are in charge or morning announcements.  Kasey is on camera doing More segments and other things.

She enjoys watching YouTube and playing Roblox. She  has a few friends that she hangs out with when she can.   Kasey has created a new style - she used to not like black clothes.  Now she only wears black leggings and different shirts (she prefers black shirts too).

Landon is now 14 1/2, and  a Freshman in high school. He has grown tall and thin and is about an inch shorter than Greg.  Landon is playing in the high school band so he marches at Varsity football games which has been fun.  Parents of kids involved in the game get to buy tickets on Mondays of home games.  Everyone is spaced out and its outside so we've felt safe.  The band is fun and reminds us of  music that was played when we were in high school.  They have performed at football games, participated in Regional competition (they got all 1s (the best score you can get)), and even had an end of year performance.  The directors were very excited to get to do that.  He's enjoyed getting to hang out with other kids that play his same instrument.  This year in Scouts Landon has started working on his Eagle project.  Its not approved yet but he's spent some time on it and working on the proposal and even a prototype.   Landon really enjoys playing online games and watching YouTube.   

We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May God Bless you this 
coming year.  We are ready to move on to 2021!


Love, Dana, Greg, Landon, Kasey & Patch Myers