December Fun 2009

Well, I decided to go ahead and do one more post before Christmas since we have had so much fun in the last few weeks.



Picking out our Christmas tree


Nixon decorating the tree


Simon decorating the tree


Paige decorating the tree


Tim and I had a Chief's Initiation Dinner to go to for the newest CCTI group.


Exchanging gifts with our cousins








Looking at Christmas Lights at a park in Renton


Paige's awesome Aunt Jaime entered her in a contest at Red Robin (a resturant) to win a party with Red for her class. They picked one winner from 5 different schools and Paige won for hers. So she got a party for her class. Needless to say her whole class and all the kids who saw him in the hall were very excited. They gave each kid a goody bag and Paige a special goody bag.


Nixon got to join in the fun too!


Paige had to do a Traditions report show and tell in class. She picked a Family tradition to do it on. They had to pick a family, cultural or religious tradition. She brought me and our big bowl of chex mix and made a poster of the last 4 years of opening day for the Mariner's at our house. She was quite nervous to get up in front of the class so I told her she didn't have to be because I would be standing with her ( and I don't like to get up in front of others either). She did great and I assume the kids enjoyed all the chex mix the whole bowl was full and the Tradition Party lasted all day.


We celebrated Christmas with my Mom and Mark this weekend. We had a wonderful time!


The kids enjoyed their new toys!


I think this is the biggest stuffed animal horse in the world!!!


Simon was excited to get legos and a toy gun that makes sounds.

That brings us to date of all our fun. Now I really won't post again til after Christmas!
Merry Christmas to All!

September through November 09

Sorry it has been a long time since my last post. I figured I better catch up so that once Christmas comes I will be ready to post those pictures! So here are some things we have been up to this fall. They didn't load in the correct order but I will label each one.



Paige and Mommy were matching black cats for Halloween!



Paige and Mommy were cats, Simon a Clone Trooper "Cody", Nixon was Blues Clues again and Tim did dress up for Simon's birthday party but had changed by the time we took a picture he was a Guitar Hero.


We actually celebrated Simon's 7th birthday with a costume party on Halloween. Here the kids had a game of making mummies Simon is the second one from the left and Paige is the last one on the right.


This fall Simon took a basketball class that taught the basics of the game. He did great and enjoyed it.


Here we are picking out our pumpkins for carving. A funny note: We usually buy our pumpkins since we moved here from a church up the road that makes a pumpkin patch in their yard. This year we actually went down to a real pumpkin patch and none of our kids liked it. They said it was too muddy and they all three asked if we could go back to the regular pumpkin patch next year. So next year back to our normal buying pumpkins from a church up the road it will be!


The finished products!


On Simon's actual birthday he chose to go to dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe and get a volcano for dessert.


I also had a birthday and right around it Mom and Larry were in town and we all went to the Cheesecake Factory. My Sister and Brother in law had the waiter bring me this as a surprise.


The end of November Tim ran his first Marathon. He ran the Seattle 1/2 marathon in 2 hours 54 min. It was a great experience and he really enjoyed it as did the kids and I watching him!


We have become friends with a Chinese exchange student from UW. He has stayed a couple weekends with us and made us an authentic Chinese meal. He made 5 different dishes and each was incredible. We ate really good that night!

We went to Yakima for Thanksgiving and had a wonderful time. I forgot my camera but my sister in law took some I just need to save them on my computer. It was a wonderful weekend and the cousins had a blast the whole time.

That brings us to date! I will post more after Christmas and New Years. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!