'Tis the Season

Santa's Lap

 Sushi Night and checking off The Christmas List

Trip to Utah

Surprised my brother Ian at his classroom

 

Cousin Play

 

  

discovering how DOUGHNUTS are made

Playing Indoors

 

Wearing our Uncle's out

Visiting Evelyn's awesome school class

 Annual Gift Exchange (I got a phone that plugs into your iphone)

 All the presents are wrapped and I plan to watch a movie with my girls tonight and go to bed early!  But it is the holidays so surely unexpected plans will keep us up later than planned and laughing harder than thought.  I love this time of year.

Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving was all family this year.  All my siblings were able to make it and we had a full week of food, games, and more food!  We started off the week with bowling!

Thanksgiving day...

Aunt Greta and Evelyn making blueberry pie 

Aunt Jessica with one of her amazing dips!  Everything she made was delicious!

Uncle Luke and Daryl on youtube looking for the best turkey carving techniques

 The dessert table all contributed to by us:) 

Bella and Aunt Greta

too much food=nap

Bella enjoying dessert

We played a lot of games.  Here are a couple I caught on camera...

This one the kids were blindfolded and had to use kitchen utensils to touch the person standing in front of them and then had to guess who it was.  We should of tried this one with the adults being blindfolded and I think that would have been fun too.

This one is called penny hose.  A penny is placed at the foot of the tights and you have to get the penny out without letting your hands or arms rub against each other.

a dance and singing show performed by these great kids

Jane and Aunt Greta at the park

on top of the rock wall

Evelyn getting private lessons from her Uncle Luke and Aunt Jessica

Jane and Bella

Luke holding Waldo our pet chameleon

Family is our greatest blessing.  Very grateful for all the time spent together.  

I was also able to see a few of my favorite ladies right before all the family arrived.  Morgan and Natalie who I went to high school with.  Morgan is pregnant with her second!  Exciting!

The week after Thanksgiving we went to Spokane for a doctors appointment for Evelyn.  While we were up there we went to play at the trampoline house!  We were the only ones there and Jane cried when we had to leave she loved it so much.  We also got to see Uncle Shayne for dinner since he was interviewing for med school for UW at their connection school in Spokane.

All of us in a row:)

Me jumping into the foam pit

Getting out of the foam pit is harder than it looks! 

My girls loved the foam pit 

The next day after we got home we had a baby shower for my friend Lauren at my house.  She is having a boy and everyone gave her their best boy advice!  All new news for me!