Monday, January 7, 2013

Sledding

Sled - $10
Discover Pass - $35
Snow Park fee - $20
Gas - $60
About an hour and a half and 6 runs down the hill - priceless!





Pure joy

I love this kid!  I love his energy, his spirit, his curiosity, his kind heart and his absolute pure joy.

One more celebration

Grandpa Dave came over the day after Christmas for one more holiday celebration.  We saw the whole Morio clan later that night but apparently I didn't get any pictures :(

Helping Grandpa open his present

Again, the box is the BEST part!

Christmas 2012

What a difference a year makes!  Last Christmas our little man was small enough to fit in his stocking.  This year Jack had so much fun unwrapping presents and playing with his gifts, it was wonderful.  Waiting downstairs for him on Christmas morning was a kitchen from Santa, how exciting!  I kinda wish Santa would have delivered it assembled, since Mom and Dad Elf were up till almost 2am putting it together (no, I don't want to talk about it) but it was totally worth it to see Jack's excited little face.
Our tradition on Christmas day is to go to a park but unfortunately Mother Nature was not in the best of moods, so we stayed warm and dry inside, opening gifts and playing with the new toys.

Our attempt at a family photo
Just like we've been told, he loved the box more than the toy :)


 After naptime we headed over to Dana's house to celebrate and have dinner with the Edler side of the family (all 6 of us).


It was a fabulous Christmas day and I feel blessed to have such a wonderful family!


Thursday, January 3, 2013

Christmas recap

We always have quite a busy Christmas season and this year was no exception.  Between family celebrations, traditions Paul and I have started together, and now traditions with Jack, we keep a pretty packed December calendar.  Here's a recap of our pre-Christmas celebrations:

Of course we had to visit Santa's reindeer

Then we took a trip over the river and through the woods with my mom and Norm to have Christmas in Yakima with my brother and his family.

It's always quite entertaining to get all three kids to sit still (and smile at the same time if we're lucky).  God bless Cohen for smiling the entire time, even while Emmery's finger is up his nose.


Jack wasn't a fan of pumpkin pie, but absolutely LOVED feeding it to Ya Ya!

Next on the agenda was a tradition that Paul and I started while we were dating.  Each year we pick a different park (or beach) to watch the Christmas Ships and this year we bundled up and headed over to the Kirkland waterfront.  Afterwards we went out to an Irish pub for dinner and our non-meat-eating-kid ate almost a whole plate of chicken fingers!  He surprises us ever day :)


In addition to these events we also celebrated with our PEPS friends, went to Gymboree (Daddy came too, hooray!), put together and delivered a food basket to the YMCA, drove to some beautiful Christmas lights, made cookies, and spent quality time together just the three of us.  What a magical Christmas season!