The Cabin at the end of 2011

We had a great visit with the Kevin Smylie family at the cabin. It was sort of our New Year's trip, but we came home on Dec. 31st. Last year the Smylie's made this trip and they had lots of snow and ended up taking more than 24 hours to get home since the grapevine was closed. Claire was a few weeks old at the time. This year the weather was beautiful. We did lots of outdoor play. We threw rocks at the pond (which was frozen, but the weather was warm). We went to Manzanita Lake and fed the ducks and explored. And I think Kevin and Katie made it home in a lot less time. I love pictures more than words, so you can see that we played hard, made gingerbread men, played Mario on the TV and Jump Start on the computer. It was great fun. See for yourself.

Did I mention that today (Dec. 30th) was DB's birthday. A low key celebration.

Water play is always good to keep babies happy.

Kevin is determine to break though the 4 inches of ice at the pond.

A very tired baby.

Chistmas 2011

Here are just a few pictures of our wonderful trip to Portland for Christmas. We had lots of fun and stayed busy every second. FUN!

We started our Christmas fun with a trip to the nutcracker in Portland. It was fun to go with the girls for the first time.

Then we celebrated my birthday at Chevy's. Maryn and Lucy loved the hat and Chris and Jess enjoyed the Margarita.

The girls are opening some Christmas eve gifts with Chris. They really do love to get gifts.

Maryn looking lovely.Laurel and Ananda joined in for the Christmas Celebrations

Yes, I got a picture of Chris and Jess together in their kitchen. That doesn't happen very often, but aren't they cute.

Lucy is taking her dog GoGo for a walk

Don prepares the lobster for our Christmas Eve Dinner.

Pasta sauce with lobster was yummy. Especially good because Do has caught the lobster. There were 10 of us for dinner which we enjoyed after our Christmas ever service.

Here is Ananda helping Jess clean up after Christmas morning brunch. We did a lot of eating and the brunch was delicious.

Here is Lucy with her new Doll from Santa.

Jess and her mom on Christmas Day

Lucy looking cute with her doll

Our Christmas Photo

Maryn and Lucy playing with the doll house at Grandma Kathy's.

And of course, there is always time for a ballet show.

The whole gang at the Drury's.

Two Grandma's and a Lucy

Don and I stayed at great Hotel with a pool. We used it a lot and the girls loved it.