Christmas 2008

I was, unfortunately, very negligent at taking pictures this Christmas. BUT, here are a few pics of the boys finding their Santa gifts Christmas morning... a book, play kitchen with food, and a soccer ball and net. The kitchen was an absolute doozy to put together -- a million pieces and 2 1/2 hours of assembly time. You'll have to ask Santa for more specific details!!! ;-)

Christmas was wonderful. We went out to the Christmas Eve service at our church, drove around to see some Christmas lights, and then came home to get the boys ready for bed and put out cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Micah thought this was fascinating! Christmas day was busy as the whole family came out from Payson to join us (our fam and my parents who were in town) for gift-opening and Christmas dinner. It was quite a trek for them as it was pooring down snow the whole way. Thankfully they made it safely, in about 3 1/2 hours time (it is usually a 2 hour drive at most). We had a great time celebrating together and stuffing overselves silly.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!!!

Snow play!

The boys, my hubby included, hit the snow in the early afternoon hours on Christmas Eve! Here are some photos of their fun.

All bundled up!

My boys

Where'd Daddy go?

The pups had fun too -- especially Ariel!

Warming up with hot cocoa

Thanksgiving trip to the northwest ... Part II

Micah doing his best to con Andrea into just one more game of Candyland.

Morning at the park

The spinning poll was amazing. I think the adults had more fun than the kids. Jake actually fell and bounced his head off the ground like a basketball after taking his first spin. It was pretty histerical - for those of you concerned, he was just fine! ;-)

Micah wearing Elliott's shoes. My how his feet have grown! ;-)

We had so much fun! Thanks for the wonderful trip, Elliott and Andrea!

Thanksgiving trip to the northwest ... Part I

We ventured up north to the Portland, Oregon / Vancouver, Washington area to visit good friends Elliott and Andrea for Thanksgiving this year. As always, we had a wonderful time together - playing plenty of Settlers and Pinochle - and truly enjoyed seeing such a gorgeous part of the country. The following pictures should provide a pretty good summation of our trip...

Oregon Zoolights

Making & enjoying chocolate cupcakes...yumm!

Christmas tree hunting

Breakfast and light shopping at Bob's Red Mill

Mr. Model yet again :-)