Favorite Christmas presents

Here's Anna and her friend Amelia, with her princess dress up clothes.

Tyler loves his little automatic truck, despite the fact that he can't steer it.

Endless Snow

We've had snow every day for a week now. It's been a blast, but's also rather limiting. We don't have a 4 wheel drive car, but we have chains for Randy's car. So we don't get out much, and when Randy goes to work, we're housebound. This is the first white Christmas we've had in Seattle - beautiful.

Tyler on the way to mailbox. To no avail, the mailtrucks haven't been able to get to our neighborhood for a week now.

Skiing and snowboarding through the neighborhood.

Snow Day!

I love snow days - they bring out the kid in everyone. We sledded, made snowmen, made a gingerbread house, watched Christmas movies. It was the perfect day.

Tyler's first candy cane. I later found it stuck to the front of him.

One snowman, three snow angels.

Help, I'm trapped in my snowsuit!

Paradise

OK, I'm rather embarrassed by how much we travel, so I didn't even tell most people about our most recent trip. However, Maui is just so warm and wonderful, that I have to share some photos.

Yes, that's Tyler ina pink hat. It's the only hat he'd keep on his head.

Thanksgiving in DC

We have much to be thankful for this year - which is why we had several Thanksgiving dinners. We met Laura's family in Washington DC, where also met the newest member of the family, Cole. Here are the 4 cousins together -- it's as good a photo as we could muster up.

I love these photos of Tyler at the Jefferson Memorial.

And we had a great time hanging out with the Campbell family.

November at the beach

We've had an unusually sunny, pleasant fall here. So what better to do on a Sunday, than head to the beach? It didn't matter that it was only in the 50's, the kids still ran around barefoot and buried themselves in the sand. Anna is with her best friend, Amelia.