Christmas in Snowy WA

The first picture should be a picture of the snow but now it is almost all melted. But in the previous blog Barb took a picture of the Christmas cactus and you can see the snow in the back yard through the window.



Jerry took these Christmas pictures and he finally got to open some presents Barb was passing out presents and watching everyone else so she didn't take any pictures.

We are watching Kaven open his tonka truck present. From Left to right is Scott our son-in law, Gabby our granddaughter, Steve our son, the backs of Holly, Cameron & Kim's heads you will see their faces in some of the other pictures.

Teresa our daugter and Scott son-in law, Jenny our granddaughter in pink sweater her fiance Shane in the rocking chair, Holly's daughter Jordon on the floor with Kaven our great grandson which is Jenny's son.

Here we have left to right Gabby (granddaughter) Steve and Holly his fiance, Holly's daughter Jordan and Kameron her boyfriend and half of Kim's head our daughter. Barb told you that we had pictures of the faces of the people where we only had the back of their head. In this small space it is hard to do photography.

Here is Kim and her fiance Ray and baby Noelani. We finally got a full picture of Kim not the back of her head or just half of her head.

Here is a better picture of Teresa and Scott. The other picture we only had half of Teresa .

This picture is of Holly and Cameron with our great grand children Nevaeh and Kaven which is Jenny's childrens and Holly's grandchildren.

Here is Noelani prepared for the big day. Her and papa Jerry are waiting to open presents.

This is our little Christmas tree with just a few presents, after all 16 people got at our house you could not even see the tree for presents. Also as you could see in these pictures we were wall to wall in our little living room. We have a 1600 square foot townhouse but the living room is way to small. Maybe we have to much furniture. Jerry would like to get rid of the intertainment center and get a big screen tv but Barb is not sure if that is the answer. Well Santa didn't bring him one so he will have to wait tell next year.

All in all we had a great time but because of the three snow storms that come in we did not get to spend as much time with the family as we would have liked to .


Happy New Year!

WINTER WONDER LAND IN SEATTLE

The Christmas Cactus that is a start from my mother's plant and it is blooming beautiful this year for the first time. I started it two years ago from a leaf from her plant that we took to her funeral.


Saturday Dec 20th here we are having a Lefsa making party. A task for every one.

Guess we will have a white Christmas this year. There was snow on the ground when we landed at the airport and it has snowed twice since.

Haven't been able to do much since we arrived in Auburn because the weather has been so nasty.

It will be great holidays anyway we are here with out children and we hope they can make it to our house for Christmas Day.

TWO WEEKS TELL CHRISTMAS! Help!!!!!!!!!!

Hope we are ready for the big day looks like we only have two weeks to get things done. We have to shop, bake, decorate hopefully we can make it all happen in that short period of time.

We fly in to WA on Monday Dec 15 and we will be going non stop for a few days after we get there.

We went to a Christmas concert at our club house this past Tuesday. There is a group of individuals that like to sing and do concerts. They do a Christian one in the spring.

Tonight we are going with some friends to a big Christmas concert north of Scottsdale. It is at a very large church. Our friends go almost every year and have invited us to join them so we am excited about that. At least we will get to hear some Christmas carols. All my tapes are in WA.

There is a lot of houses already decorated and it looks so nice. Guess we should put up some one of these years even if we aren't here. We think we have a box of decorations in the attic but am not sure kinda loose track of what is where we have moved so much.


Barb does have the Christmas cards all sent so that is a good thing.

Love to all our family and friends on this glorious Christmas season. For some of you we will see you soon.