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our tree.  Jason and I got a whole day to ourselves while some amazing friends  took care of our kids for us!  We had so mud fun and ended the night with an amazing dinner.  We had a little cookie decorating party with some friends...  it finally became scarf wearing weather.  White elephant gift exchange/ ugly sweater CG Christmas party!  visited a house in Issaquah with amazing lights tuned to a radio station with music.  I love capturing moments where they're all playing together.  She's a keeper ;-)  Daddy's new Minecraft shirt. Kara declared he was "one awesome man!"   Rachel & Evelyn  took these two on a coffee date while the older two were at History class. 

First, it snowed.  We were thrilled, to say the least.  And even though it melted by the end of the day...  we made the most of it and thoroughly enjoyed it.  Miles had no interest in being IN the snow.  But loved watching from the window.  So Miles starting cutting a lot of teeth back in late November.  Along with that came a runny nose and other such annoyances.  {this all came about 4 weeks after we decided to take off his teething necklace}  By mid-December his cold seemed to be getting worse and then one day he suddenly came  down with very high fevers. So I made an apt to have him checked out.  I assumed it was a flu virus, but our Pediatrician said it was bronchitis induced Pneumonia :(  Not a fun way to start the Christmas week, but SO thankful to have a diagnosis and meds.    We spent the following week doing a lot of this.      and discovered t...

I decided this was the year I was going to learn how to make good sugar cookies and the royal icing to go with them.  So I went to my go-to lady for yummy recipes and mainly followed this one for recipes and how-to's.  I used this cookie recipe and this recipe for the Royal icing.  I invited ladies from our CG over for a party and was super glad they were more than willing to come hang out until almost midnight, decorating {and eating} cookies :)  earlier that day while I was cooking, someone entertained himself with... booze.  Whatever it takes.   starting to look good!!   And Jason and the girls decorated a gingerbread house that same day :) 

Every year since we moved here we've visited an indoor water park around Christmas called Great Wolf Lodge. If you can get over the fact that you spend a few days in a huge chlorinated incubator with tons of people you don't know, its a fun trip. Our kids love going and this year we ended up going the same exact time some good friends from church went - totally unplanned too, which was cool. Anyway, this year we went a lot closer to Christmas since we didn't travel to California for the holiday.    The yellow and red one is the scariest one... but oh, so much fun! this is the wave pool, without waves when I too the pic.  We don't carry cell phones around in here so I don't usually  get pics of inside the actual water park.  having his first Honest Kids juice box.  We told Kara she's so Seattle and doesn't even know it :)  I didn't drink it... but it was fun po...