Happy New Year
It’s hard to believe that it’s 2009. We had a great vacation over Christmas. We celebrated Christmas eve at our house. We weren’t sure whether we were even going to get together due to all of the snow. Unfortunately Brian and Marcia weren’t able to come down but mom and Aunt Jean made it at the last minute. On Christmas day we went over to Sarah and Dan’s for Christmas breakfast. They made some delicious food and we all had a nice time. There were a few presents to open and the kids were happy to get to that as soon as possible. Dan’s parents were also there and it was nice to visit with them as well. After we visited there, we went over to mom’s for Christmas lunch/dinner. The kids all played and had a good time and we stuffed ourselves again. After that, we went home and took it easy for the evening and then headed out to the lake for a few days.
On New Years Eve we went over to mom’s and celebrated New Years. Since it’s the anniversary of dad passing away we have a tradition of all getting together. I think we all had a great time and made it the last hurrah before we all start our New Years resolutions. On New Years Day I headed out to the cabin to replace mom’s water heater. I was very glad to get that fixed since there has been no hot water in her cabin for well over a month. Luckily we have it in our cabin. Some friends at the lake decided to have a “summer bbq” on Friday afternoon. It was fun to pretend it was summer. We had a big bonfire down at the lake (at Tim’s) and the food was delicious. Okay, I’m starting to see a theme to this post. There sure are a lot of references to food. No wonder I’m on a mission to drop some pounds for 2009.
Katie, Emma and Grandma Joan (and Bailey) came out on Friday and we all spent time together at Grandma’s cabin. They only spent one night before we all headed back home. Owen and Brooklyn’s birthday party was on Sunday morning at 11 so we thought it would be better to come back on Saturday, rather than rush back Sunday morning. The party was a lot of fun for the kids. It was at the Puyallup YMCA and the kids got to play in the gymnastic area.
Unfortunately all the time off has passed and now it’s back to school and work. We are slowly getting back in the swing of things but it’s hard to go back to work after having a couple weeks off. Oh well, the grind continues.
Here are a few photos of the last couple weeks:
Here is Ryan doing a few spins on the rings and you can see some of the other kids running on the trampoline type path:
