Karate Man, I mean Logan

Logan started taking Karate lessons in November and is loving it.  Kendall goes to art school in Seattle on Wednesdays with Grandma and Logan was feeling left out, but wasn't interested in art school. Grandma and he decided to give Karate a try and he is loving it.  We took a break from baking to watch Logan in action, so funny and cute!

Bake til ya drop

Christmas break is in full swing and to start it off we had a baking day with the family.  It was pretty crazy when I see how much we actually made! Here is the menu!
bars of some kind don't know the name that Linda made, I did Ritz thin  mints and ginger cookies, Jacqui did peppermint whoopie pies and chocolate cover pretzels, Carol did gingerbread men and fudgy bon-bons and Melissa did sugar cookies.  I have a sugar high just thinking about it!  Marilyn joined us later in the day and had made fudge too! It was fun to see the family and have the kids busy during the break, not to mention the wide variety of treats we came home with!

Carol and Jacqui using her wedding mixer

she made her pretty necklace

rolling out the dough

gingerbread men

working hard

Avery may have ate more than she made!

Ritz Thin Mints

Ginger cookies- my fav! 

Linda's bar

Avery put herself down for a nap :0)

Peppermint whoopie pies- cute and yummy

Kendall worked hard decorating the sugar cookies

Still all about the color green

focused on icing the gingerbread men

Melissa and Kendall did a great job on the gingerbread men

Carol and Marilyn working on the fudgy bon bons

Baking perfection!

Seahawks Sunday 2010

Sunday December 19th 2010, Austin and I were able to go to our very first Seahawks game!  It was a blast!  We were given tickets that Al had won in a raffle through his union and the seats we amazing! The crowd was crazy loud, but the Seahawks still lost-oh well we still had a great time and will go back as soon as we can! 

Christmas with the Titus Family 2010

The third weekend in December we spent time with the Titus side of the family at the Fisher's in Edgewood.  We had dinner, chatted, exchanged gifts for the kids and did a white elephant exchange for the adults and watched Despicable Me-wonderful movie!  We all had a great time!

Rosemary, Don, Carol and Annie

Avery helping Grandma in the kitchen

Avery and Logan having a snack

The budding photographer

         Relaxing watching the movie in the WSU snuggie!

chillax'n

Gift time

 Avery knew just how to open gifts this year!

 Very excited

 Annie opening her white elephant- a cane

 Al with his white elephant- a dog wash

Jacqui ans Avery having some laughs! Too Cute!



Santa 2010

So I bought a groupon for pictures with Santa at the supermall.  Then I remembered why I don't like the pictures at the supermall!  We arrived right at 5:15pm on a Friday night hoping to miss the crowd only to find out that Santa needs to feed his reindeer until 6pm-grrr! So we went to dinner, and I prayed the kids would not cover their dresses in ketchup! Then we headed to get in line for Santa right at 6pm, over an hour later we finally saw him.  Here are some pics I took of the kids waiting in line.

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In case you missed it- Avery asked for a baby Elmo, Kendall the Barbie vacation dream house and Logan wants the Trio batcave!

And so here is the official picture! My kids really were happy even though Avery doesn't look like it! We waited an hour for a crappy background, print job and definetly not the best smiles from the kids, but they had a great time so that is all that matters, but next year we are going back to southhill regardless of what "great" deal I find! 

Logan (5), Avery (2) and Kendall (7)

The Fisher Kids with Santa 2010

12/19/2010

Leavenworth 2010

The second weekend in December we packed up and headed to Leavenworth for the tree lighting ceremony. I have wanted to do this for a couple of years and decided to make it my b-day gift so no arguments from the peanut gallery :0). It was absolutely beautiful since we were blessed with SNOW!!! There was a winter storm warning and there was actually a foot of snow on the car when we left after our fun filled day in the village. We all had a wonderful time, sledding, shopping, lots of hot cocoa and the lights were so pretty. A great way to enjoy the holiday season, so we will definitely be going back at some point!

Our first night in town we went to dinner and headed to Leavenworth to check it out and get hot chocolate

Some of the lights that were up on Friday night

The best hot chocolate

this was just the beginning of the snow fall

Such a fun kid

too cute

The boys all bought new matching hats!

A rare couple pic

Posing with grandpa and really Avery was having a good time!

After lunch we hit the sledding! Go Kendall Go!

Super busy

Avery loved it

One happy boy

Fearless

Again with daddy

Crazy busy and snowy!

The very best hot cocoa in the world!!!

An attempt at a family photo

The kids with father Christmas, they also meet scrooge and were given gold coins, but that was when we were walking back to the car so didn't have my camera out as it was such wet snow!

The band playing Christmas music 

Avery was getting cold, notice how much snow is on Austin's head!

It was so wet and busy I just held my camera up to try and get some pics of the lights

A very bad attempt at a family photo in the crowd and wet, wet, snow!!! An amazing time none the less!