The Christmas Slump.

We are in the Christmas slump! The house feels cramped now

from the holiday decor and I am way behind on the blogging.

So I took the tree down yesterday, and now I'm putting 4 posts in one!!

Lets start on... before Christmas activity.

Carson and Brooke gathered some seed pods from

outside and wanted to make ornaments.

They were lovely!

We went back to the festival of lights to see Santa.

It was fun a second time around too! We got there right when

he had to take a potty break, so we rode the carousel... i thought it a bit scary!

But the kids liked it!

SANTA!!

Christmas morning!! At 8am! I was awake and ready to go at 6am

and thats only because Miah said if anyone gets up before 6am then they

would go back to bed... So I forced myself back to sleep when I had woken up at 4am.

AAHHHHH!

And so, let the mess begin!

This damage is after they told me that they had taken all their stuff upstairs... hmm

Well we had a blast this Christmas.. I love Christmas day.

We all sit around and play with our toys and eat leftovers from

Christmas eve dinner and junk from our stockings!

What a slow wonderful day!

'Tis The Season...

To start off some of our Christmasy fun, we went to the Festival of Lights!

It was fantastic, we drove through it I think, three times. We had snacks and some delicious

hot cocoa! We didn't do the full walking activities because it was freezing cold!

We were able to take the train around so that was fun for everyone! The kids

had these snazzy glasses that when you look at the lights it turns them into snowflakes,

Santas, and snowman! they were pretty cool, its the best way to see Christmas!

Like I said, we got these really cool glasses for the kids!

This was one of our favorite light sculptures. It is the Cooper River Bridge.

it changed ever so gracefully from the old bridge to the new one!

Miah wanted ya'all to know that he took this picture.

The kids were plum tuckered!

See Carson is still wearing his awesome glasses!

Next we set out for our original South Carolina Christmas... Bush.

We found a rather large one to trim! Ain't she purty.

Kennen also just had the little first grader Christmas pageant!

She was so cute (Driving us nuts with all the practicing but she knew her songs!)

We haven't been able to locate our video camera, so its just pictures this year.

We have had a blast with all the Christmas delights!

Hope you are having a jolly holly season too!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Ok, here is the skinny and a few pictures!

Before we left Washington Kennen got to start First grade.. yeah I'm a little behind I know. So here she is... She is grown up so fast (sniff)

She loved Madison, her teachers and friends. She really misses everything about it!

Before we left we got to go out to Shore Line with my buddy, Laura Suttle. She rocks and we had a blast. The kids all got soaked and I think I will need a new washer after doing laundry this day!

So skipping into our trip to South Carolina! This was out side of Denver (had so much fun there with the few families we got to see, wish we could visit more but it is a long drive!). Carson was hiding from the sunshine! He has become a little Nintendo nerd and he had almost free range of it on the way here!

Even though it was a long drive and took us days, we still managed to hit all the Cabela's and Bass Pro shops on the way! (something that you and dad are going to want to plan for when you make your trip, mom.)

Ahhhhh here we are!! We did it! A few more hours and we are there! Sorry about the blurriness but I wasn't ready as I sped by! but you can still make out what it mostly says!

This last week has been a BLAST!!! Cenia is here to play, and Miah has taken some time off of work so things are busy!!! To start, Kennen is starting school and we are all excited! her first official day is the 1oth, but on the 9th the kindergarten teachers decided to have a half day to show the kids around and teach them the rules. I'm very happy with the school that she will be going to! Its an older school, and its all day, but they are very organized with things, especially transportation which put my nerves at ease! Kennen went in to take a placement test and was put into an advanced reading class!! I was extremely excited about that! Shes just a little smarty!

With Cenia here. Miah and I got to take our dirt bikes up and go camping this last weekend! We went on some trails over by Port Angeles. I loved it!! the trails weren't as hard as the ones around here! The only tricky part was when Miah took me up some steep wet hills with a few rocks here and there! My front tire lost grip on one of the rocks.... and I cartwheeled with the bike back down the hill!! After I was done cussing my husband and finally made it to the top... I found it funny. Nothing broken so that's good! We hit Port Angeles while they were having their Hill Climb Competition! Please don't mention this to Miah, he was really bumbed that he didn't get his bike out to play too! He would have done awesome! It was a lot of fun! Here are a few pictures that I took of the hill!

This guy was awesome!! He shot right up the hill!! This was only the first part of the hill but I think he surprised us all!

As you can see... He has a sense of humor!

Here the guy started going backwards down the hill, so the catcher dove for him!

This was the kids hill climb! also the first one to go! He went straight up the hill, right into the catcher and pushed him right back down the hill!! the catcher that is circled was standing somewhere around where the x is! it started out pretty good!

There is much more to come!! We also went and watched Christen Colonel play ball yesterday. So I'll get some pictures of that on here soon.. then tomorrow Miah is taking me to a Real Big Fish Concert for my Birthday!!! And then I get a spa day on Thursday!! but wait there is more!! We are also taking the kids to the Ringling Bros. Circus on Friday!!! I don't think we can pack anything else into these two weeks!! Most of this we were just lucky to have happen at this time!! Having Cenia here has been great, or we wouldn't have gotten to play so much!

This is the giant tent that I got Miah for fathers day! This was a well thought out process... I read tons of reviews on a couple of tents and this is the one that I bought! I was so excited!!!

Now I see how you might be confused on the colors! Well it actually turns out that all the good things that I read about the tent above, were actually all the pros for this tent... so we got this one instead! I'm such a good wife! He loves me!

Toys!

Jeremiah's bike...

My Bike...

Yes it's mine, I know it looks more like kennen's... next to Miah's anyway.

Although Kennen could probably ride it better than me.

But I'm very excited to have my Bike and new gear!! This picture is for mom and dad... See Helmet!

Although it was harder to ride with all this stuff on!!

Dang I look good! check out those nice legs! rrrarrrr

A little sneak peep!

I thought you all would like to see Miah's new costume!

So serious... dundundun

Miah and the boys that went to Virginia were so excited to get these, because 

we aren't wearing them here yet.  So when he got home he thought he should look 

just in case they weren't supposed to wear them.  Good thing he did, turns out there 

is a whole role out period starting at the top of the food chain. Dang, he was so happy too!

Volunteer Park!

This park was awesome.  We were trying to avoid traffic in Seattle so I 

pointed at the navi. and said lets go see what that green patch is, and it ended 

up being this amazing park and also the highest point in seattle!  They don't make toys

like this anymore, Miah and I had a blast... the kids had fun too!

This picture is why I take over 300 where ever I go!  If I hadn't been 

snaping away, he wouldn't have been looking at me!

These trees were great climbing trees!  they would be perfect for tree houses!

I love Brookes face in this!

Notice Kennens worried look!

All I could think about when I was trying to flip around that poll was the people 

on americas funniest home videos, that try to do things that they used to do when 

they were younger and end up on there face... I was okay!

This picture cracks me up because Jeremiah didn't even notice I was taking it.  

He just got done hoping across the logs and was just moving on to the next thing, 

our girls had to wait for him!

And just to show you how much fun we acturally had at this park, 

here are a few more pictures of us playing!

If I had waited just two more seconds to take the picture of Miah 

then you would have seen him land on his head!  Dang!

I'll have more on my photography blog of the area and some of the kids, 

and some of the same ones just for fun!

A Day at the Beach!