 my gosh, I'm telling you I am starting to hate winter. I think it's because the older I get the more I just hate it. Anyways, it's a few days before Christmas. I've got one thing still to pick up that I had on order and I want to spend my 20% off coupon for Sephora. I'm hoping when I get down there that I can find my Urban Decay liners. That's what I'm really looking looking for. Maybe maybe I'll go for some foundation. I don't know but that's what we're gonna do and I'm gonna try to vlog a little bit of the Christmas holiday. I don't know what's gonna happen but I'm gonna try to vlog a little bit. I got my my bike basket liner in. I'm so excited. I know some of you probably don't care about that but I got my basket liner in. So my bike whose name is Glenda the Good Witch now has matching fenders and chain guard and her basket. Now I'm stuck here in New Hampshire with snow and cold weather. I don't know when I'm gonna go out and ride. But anyways I got my basket liner in. I'm super excited. I'm heading out to the mall and I am hoping to finish everything I have to do. With Christmas I still need to do I have to get cards. I have to because we're gonna do some gift certificates. I have to do cards but and then the food last-minute stuff. So anyways yeah so if you're interested stay tuned. Of course you're interested right? It's YouTube. Yeah thanks stay tuned. I did most of my wrapping this morning. I just have the cards to do. That means the cards and the checks. You still haven't done that? Yeah. When are you gonna do it? Tomorrow's Christmas. I know tomorrow's Christmas and we're expecting a storm right? So it's like holy moly right now. You know if it's snow that's one thing but ice is another thing. So I think it's gonna be ice. It's gonna be ice maybe. So we'll have to play it by ear because there's supposed to go up to Stratford. So I'm gonna sort of vlog Christmas as much as possible and hopefully this will be the start of it. I don't know. We'll see how it comes out. Anyways we're off to pick up my mother Mamalita. Yeah what is what is one of the biggest difference between Christmas and Germany that you remember and Christmas here in the States? Christmas here in Germany is completely different. First of all we have a nice high liquor oven. Is that Christmas Eve? High liquor oven? Yeah it's more celebrated than over here. Christmas Eve was more celebrated. Yeah. So some reason I remember that. Christmas Eve a Santa Claus came. You got all your presents and I remember Billy I teach him a little Spruch when the Nikolaus came but he has to say. A little Spruch? That's what you call a speech? Yeah. Okay. And he said Lieber Guter Weihnachtsmann schaub ich nicht so böse an. Stecke deine Rute ein. Ich will schon rechtartig sein. You understand that? No. That's it. You taught Billy to say all that? He said that all that and you know what? Not too long ago. Well maybe it's a few years ago I asked him if he still remembers what he said when Santa came. And did he? Yes he said. You know even now he said he sprays what he had to always say. Yeah. You know. Not this is like when you eat down when you sit down to eat. Yeah. You could say. Come here Jesus. Take me on. That's one thing Billy I he always had a much better memory than me. He could remember things you know me. He does. My mind is always going in 15 million directions so it's like. You have more on your mind than he does. Yeah. Yeah. So he he was surprised at times and even when he spoke in German he spoke very well. Pretty good. Yeah. I remember that one picture of him. I don't know maybe it wasn't him. Was it him or Cologne's they they had these funny hats on their head like these cones. Do you remember that? In Germany? Yeah it was like a real old picture that they stood there with there in their little their little later horse and what it would what kind of hat? What does that mean? Yeah. You get me sometimes. Like when you wear a temple. Yeah. And later motion that's in all you call it. Okay. You know what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So Hylika up and Christmas Eve was always the most. It was yeah. And so we're going to do our own Hylika up and tonight because we're we're gonna go to do a little you know Jay and I have done Christmas Eve like this for a long time so it's gonna be nice. So Hylika up and so here we are mom don't look at mom's little bow on her head. Oh isn't she adorable and we're standing here with the artist guy with I put his Santa hat on. Yeah. And behind mom. Where is behind? Is the it well you can see the buoy. This is what we come and say Merry Christmas to dad. Merry Christmas to dad. It's unbelievable that him and Billy are gone. And there's Mr. Jay. He's he's gonna take his drone out mom watch this drone right here you see this little creature. Now make sure you turn it on Jay. Is he filming? Michael has a different type. He made it himself. Jay's trying to control him. Jay just took the drone out. The drone has gone over to see Opa way over there. Oh it's cold. Say hi Monza. Hello. It's cold. Is it cold for you? It's ganz kalte. No. This is ganz kalte. This is ganz kalte. But yeah so Jay are you filming with the drone? Yeah. I don't see it anymore. He's way way over there. Way way over there. And this is some drone footage. Jay's still fairly new with his drone. So he's just learning but I love this that you can see us down on the ground and my mom she really didn't quite understand what was going on standing there looking and we're watching the drone to go up and all that. It was it was really a lot of fun and you know Jay the more he flies the drone the better he gets but he's still a little bit leery about going too close to the ground so he tends to fly it higher up and I'm like oh but you should come down a little lower so we can see it a little bit better but I think he just you know feels more comfortable right now while he's learning being up high especially if he's flying in an area where there's a bunch of trees but this footage just shows this little tiny lighthouse that's actually in Maine that lighthouse but I love this one as he's flying the drone back and you can see this is where we're standing we're standing in Newcastle at Great Island Common he brings the drone down whoops bypassed us and comes right down to where we are this is sort of high speed because I didn't want the footage to go on and on but it was so much fun doing this in a couple of pictures that we took this artist bluff a rod-iron cutout was just pretty then we went to Nubba Light in Maine and this is in York Maine Nubba Lighthouse and I've got some footage here and some video and some drone coming up too every year they kind of really decorate Nubba Lighthouse area it's it's quite popular as you can see the lighthouse is beautiful they lighted up a couple of weeks before Christmas and they actually have a Christmas tree in the windows it's really probably one of the most I think popular lighthouses now here this is really cool because Jay flew the drone over and you can see him flying on top of the lighthouse he goes to the backside which is so super cool because that's not something we see very often and oh my gosh it was so funny being on that end and he's filming as he turns around and he actually filmed it all the way back to where we were standing you can see the drone is coming back to the footage or heading back to where we were on the other side but he had filled up the SD card so no further footage with the drone and this was on our ride back we had gone out to dinner at a restaurant in new Newington and then came down through Exeter I love downtown Exeter beautiful beautiful little town I film this town often and at the holidays it's usually all lit up this is home the home of Phillips Exeter Academy very very popular prep school just to I think Exeter is probably one of the most previous small communities that we have lovely town always really well done locations with lights and that especially in the wintertime Christmas so it's Christmas morning and it is well almost Christmas afternoon eight 1157 1157 and we woke up to an ice storm we knew there was a potential of a storm but we woke up to an ice storm everything is a clear sheet of ice it's like a mess out there so Jay salted the driveway packed up the car wearing his Jeep instead of my Nissan because your Jeep is heavy right yeah a little bit heavier it's got four wheel drive if we need it yes but anyway so we're going down pick up my mother and then we're gonna make our way slowly up to Stratford and I hope that we just go on the main roads because it's like 28 degrees so it's still at that freezing cussing where the weather is crappy so so we are in the car and mum is safely in the back seat she's all decked out for Christmas Merry Christmas Jay's driving and so yeah it's 28 degrees still freezing rain ice I'm gonna show you what the roads look like in a little bit but we're heading up to Heidi's for Christmas and we had a wonderful day yesterday didn't we yeah it was a lot of fun doing all that so it was cold though really cold we had we went to dinner we had a nice dinner at Longhorns so it was it was nice and so now we do the the official family Christmas it'll be different this will be the second your dad hasn't been with us and Billy so and Mikey won't be able to come he said he's he's got some family you know family things so but we're gonna have a good Christmas no matter what right so the roads were pretty treacherous it took us a long time to get to my sisters but when we got there we had a wonderful meal and then we posed for pictures I love when we put our Santa hats on and we just act goofy all of us together missing my dad my brother my grandson Michael my niece Carissa and her family but it was just lovely to be together on Christmas December 26th and yesterday we had really horrible driving conditions in the morning going up to Heidi's to celebrate Christmas but we made it safely had a wonderful afternoon came home dropped mom off set up her new computer and this morning we woke up to more wet freezing temperatures hi guys thank you so much for joining me for hanging in there I hope you enjoyed some of the clips that I added of the Christmas and Christmas Eve celebrations that we did with my family and my mom and we had a we had a great time the weather if you watch the clips you know we had an ice storm so it was really treacherous to drive to my sister's house and I was really nervous because I had my mom in the car we had you know all everything was in the car and I'm like thinking oh my gosh if we broke down if we got into an accident and you know all this ice and I kept saying what is it worth it but you know ultimately it took us a little bit longer to get there but we got there and we had a great day even though you know we all thought of my dad and my brother at various points and times and we missed them and we missed the other family members that couldn't be with us my grandson Mikey he's 24 and he had some family things going on with his mother on his mother's side and my niece Carissa who lives in North Carolina now she was in Florida but now she's in North Carolina so her and her daughter her family really missed them being with us but overall we had an awesome we had an awesome Christmas and I'm so thankful I'm so thankful because I was really worried anyways I wanted to come back on I mentioned that you know Jay we went shopping a couple of days before Christmas ended up going to Sephora I really really wanted to get my to I love my my Sephora eye pencils my gel liners from Sephora I just think they are the best for me and I use many other gel liners you know I'll use the Sephora brand I'll use the Elta brand I'll use NYX I you I many other gel liners including Avon and I really like a lot of the Avon liners lip liners my favorite but the Urban Decay 24-7 or any of their gel liners are my they're they're sort of like my tried and true no matter what kind of day I have if I'm you know if it's a day that I'm like teaching all day and you know the lights or I'm running or I'm doing this or that they just have never let me down ever so the two colors the two shades that I really like smoke this on my hand right up here and perversion a smoke and perversion perversion is the the one closest to my fingers I'll try to zoom in and then smoke is the one closest to my Apple watch these are the two I mean I have I have a few different shades as well but these are the two that I always lean to the perversion is black but it's not the blackest black it's more of a I don't know how to describe it it's more like a softer black and I really like it I am a black eyeliner gal I know and smoke is that cooler shade of of a charcoal brown that isn't that warm brown it's a cool shade and I and it just really goes well so I really like both of these and they tend to not be available as readily you know when I go into Sephora I go into Alta there's shades that I have a harder time finding in fact I in the the Sephora I went into I got the last on the shelf smoke I'm sure they probably have more in the back but I got the last one so perversion was out last time I went but this time I scored I got both perversion and I got smoke and I got it with that 20% off coupon so how cool is that I was really excited and I ended up getting my Estee Lauder Estee Lauder normally I wear pebble but I wanted to try and I know I'm gonna mess this up Frisco Frisco F-R-E-S-C-O this is the shade Sheila simply Sheila wears and when Sheila and I were talking we were together a couple of years ago down in Myrtle Beach I had I think tried a little bit of hers and I thought it was a really good shade so I have been even though I wear pebble I wanted to see how this looked on my skin in comparison to pebble and every time I go I usually buy this at the cosmetic company store because it's it's so affordable 20 some odd dollars a bottle but every time I've gone the last year and a half they have not had my shade they've had they've had a lot of darker shades they've had a lot of warmer shades but they just not have had they've not had pebble or Frisco Frisco they just haven't had it so I broke down 20% off and that's what I bought at Sephora so for that 20% off coupon and I walked out of Sephora and I had a bag in my hand and Jay was going oh my gosh but yeah so it wasn't that bad the the thing that I did want to talk to you about is the Flaw Boucher I mentioned that F-E-I-P U-S-H-I Fiboucher this is the new face dupe now I I have had I I purchased my first new face and I really liked it I have the attachment for the eyes I really really like my my new face I purchased my first one I had problems with it I had to return it and then when I returned it I couldn't get what I bought on the sale price because they had they just didn't have it anymore so I did not buy it again then I had an opportunity to review the new face Trinity and I got the new face and the adapter and I loved it but it lasted about six weeks and it died I reached out to the company that sent it to me and because it was a freebie you know of course right I mean I'm not going to get a replacement or something like that because it was a freebie so they were they were really not able to help much but I did reach out to them and got no results so I had been talking to Penn Smith Penn Smith skin care I love Penny I absolutely love her someday we're gonna meet up I know it and she gives some awesome advice on her channel she is young she is beautiful she's got perfect skin oh she works her skin and I'm old enough to be a grandmother but basically I have reached out to her a number of times and we've chatted so she is extremely knowledgeable super responsive and just a real person you know I really like talking to her anyways I was talking to her about different skin care devices and and I had told her that I really wanted to try this and I wanted her take on it so I ended up ordering it and I know it's a dupe for the new face and I was really a little larry about it but I ended up ordering it first glance I love how it came it came really packaged well I got this I think the third week in November so I haven't been using it longer than five weeks or so but I love how it came packaged it has a USB cord that you just you attach this to the device and you charge it and you can plug it in to anything you don't have to have a separate stand or anything like that it it says the when you first get it you should charge it for 24 hours which is what I did and then when I put it on it really works well it's easy to turn on and off it has all the different levels I normally do four or five and I do about five seconds each pass so I do a slow pass but the cool thing about this is that you can you can use it with your skin care right to help absorb to help it really penetrate your skin to go deeper so I have had sheet masks on and then done this I love it so I've only been using it a short period of time but so far granted my new face held out about six weeks too but so far this I think this is just as good as the new face it is lighter physically when you hold it it's easier to turn on for me I can hear the beep a little louder the new face it could hardly hear the beep but that's my ears and I love the fact that I don't have to have special conductor gel I can use some sort of skin care you just don't want to have it oil you know you want to have be careful with it so I've been using sheet masks I've been using regular skin care and I've been doing this almost every day not the sheet mask part but almost every day so I am loving this and this is like what 50 bucks you can probably get a cheaper on sale but I am absolutely loving this I think this is awesome I I loved my new face I was hot broken when the second one died I really was hot broken when the second one died I I was bummed when I reached out and you know because I didn't buy it I didn't have any kind of warranty so it's bummed when nothing could be done about my failure on my first the one they sent me it's bummed but so this I've been reading about I've been looking at and I just thought well I'm gonna give it a try so I did order it I ordered it from eBay Fibushi I'm sure you can see a ton of reviews on this and so far so far I like it this has been a real hit so far so I am super excited to go back on this now I when I use my skincare devices I'm a creature of habit I use my for you and a for you do guys that have had for three years now still going strong so use my my real for you or my for you do no difference between them except for price and it works fabulous and then I use my my spatula for when I want to really clean out my pores you know the the spatula and then I also use the microderm appraision and I use that about every six weeks or so as well as red light therapy time you know products so but I've been using it you know different some couple of different products on my skin and really really liking it and liking the results I think so anyways I just wanted to come in and talk about this my next video I think I'm gonna update my skincare because that's been a request and so my talk about that so I have some week reviews to do when I haven't been able to do them but I'm getting there I'm getting there so anyways I hope you guys all had a wonderful holiday and let's let's hope that 2022 is a far better year for all of us but I'll see you before 2022 thank you guys so much for watching love you all bye bye