A season of...birthdays!

Christmas time is quite busy around here and not just because of the holidays. We have a few birthdays to celebrate as well! Mom and Jen's birthdays are just a few days before Christmas so this year we all went to our favorite restaurant in Seattle, Palisade. We had a delicious meal, as always!


Jen with her birthday dessert


Mom enjoying her birthday dinner with dad :)


Me, grandma and Jen


Nick and I


The traditional pic at Palisade, in front of the tree!

Crafting Weekend

A few girlfriends and I went to Reardan (Spokane area) for a fun filled weekend of crafting! It was such a nice and relaxing getaway and it gave us all time to work on any projects that we had. I worked on scrapbooking, Christmas ornaments, needlepoint, and punch needle!


We rented the most adorable house which was built strictly for retreats and crafting parties!


The crafting room downstairs. It had 10 tables with lamps and plug-ins, sewing machines, copiers, craft supplies and much more to accommodate our needs!


A picture out a book! So beautiful!


Me, Jen and Jill at the Buggy Barn (the local, and quite famous, quilt shop)


Jill with her completed quilt...what an amazing project!


All of Jen's beautiful things!

Thanksgiving

Keeping up with a tradition we have had for many years now, we went over to have dinner with Megan and Amy the night before Thanksgiving. We used to have dinner at their parents house but this year we tried something new and went to Amy and Ben's house! Megan made a yummy taco soup, Amy made cornbread, and I brought dessert.

We had a great time and ended up playing a rousing game of girl vs. guy Catch Phrase...the girls won of course :) We also got to spend some time with adorable Mr. Dylan before he went off to bed! What a handsome guy!


All decked out in his Coug gear!

We had a nice and quiet Thanksgiving dinner at mom and dads house. Jen and I hosted and were in charge of all the fixin's :) We had grandma and Nan over and we had a good time eating, chatting and playing cards.


Best ever pumpkin pie!


Chloe was trying to get in on the card action with her poker face