Wow, exactly one month from today it was Christmas! Seriously, where does the time go?! This year was a pretty great Christmas - we got to spend about a month with Jamie and Charlotte, and about 2 weeks with Ben! We played in the snow, sled, watched movies, played tons of games, rocked out until the wee hours of the night, ate yummy food, chilled, shopped, went to the Nutcracker in Seattle, played in our jammies all day, had sleepovers and a one year-old birthday party. I love when we get an excuse to hang out as a family and do everything and nothing. Laura got to spend a lot of time down here too which we miss with her being so busy with work and all. I miss having my sisters around especially Jamie being all the way in Chicago, but we are so lucky to have her as much as we do throughout the year! We're already counting down the days until August when she gets to come back and we can all smooch get in Charlotte's face - which face it, we do! We love our Lotte hugs and kisses!
Adie's poor face was squished by the hat! Where are your eyes baby?
There they are! :)
We didn't know we needed chains to get to Paradise, so we pulled over on a side street and found a bunch of others who also didn't know they needed chains, and found a small hill the girls were thrilled with. As my brother-in-law Matt said, it was the lamest most perfect spot! The tiny hill ended in a moss covered boulder that stopped the girls from going down into the nearby stream. It was a spectacular day!
Lucky for us we even got a visit from Dave's little brother Matt and his wife and two adorable babies. It was fun to catch up and play with them! Christmas day was really fun too with Mom and Dad Coleman and my friend Heather and her family coming for dinner! It was a tight squeeze at my parent's with around 30 + people but we wouldn't have it any other way!
These last two pictures were on our Christmas card - sorry if you didn't get one, I forgot to mail them out until it was embarrassingly too late -only local friends and family got them that I delivered things to. My goal next year is to mail them by December 1st! (Yeah right...)
