The Christmas catch up.

Photos from the holidays....
Christmas Dinner guests~ Kendra, Jeff, Baby Dean and Kendra's mom & step dad. Benny and I agreed that it was the best food all together that we have ever made!

Cozy loving on Baby.

Carolers Christmas Eve (Thomas family)

Eve dinner of traditional shrimp cocktail, cheese quesadillas, guac. and a new twist...
bq chicken with smoked gouda quesadillas!

We invited a friend to Christmas Eve Dinner. He was thrilled and brought the kids lego gifts!

Christmas Crunch which I forgot and made 5 days later!
Last Craft for 2009...
2010 glasses!!
Happy New Year!

Cozy's Christmas Concert

The preschool performance was last night and it was really entertaining!
This was the first time I curled Cozy's hair.
It looked so cute! Ringlets all in the back.....like Shirley Temple!

Cozy with her buddy Rylee

They signed & sang We wish you a Merry Christmas!

Santa came!

Thanksgiving in Spokane

We went to Spokane for a non-traditional no left-over thanksgiving dinner ...and my mom met up with us!! We enjoyed a matinee of Lion King, Movies, shopping and good eats. My favorite was not cleaning up after anything and just hanging out. Here are some pics.

Mimi comes to Spokane (Davenport hotel for dinner)

Happy & "full" Kiddos.

Us after the fancy dinner.

Shopping. Atticus gets a free coffee mug from cool "Atticus" shop downtown!

Black Friday & Cozy finds a place to nap.

I thought this was funny. We are all looking at cool gadgets at R.Hardware & Cozy finds this gold outlet.

Random Photos....

~We are So excited about our new piece of art! A Russian artist that does some crazy stuff (www.VladmirKush.com) I really wanted to find an apple that we could have in our home, but not so still life and blah. It really is much better in person!
~Cozy was sick for a few days and spent a lot of time in bed reading. Of course she was not too sick to keep dressing up. This dress Benny's nurse Mel got her when she went to Mexico and she loves it. A little too cold and not good at covering things (like her "nickels" is what she calls them!)
~Atticus' school really got into Veterans Day and what it meant. He had me looking up facts from different World Wars so I could keep up with his questions! The last photos are of our hike on Veterans Day (you can see the back of our house in the one photo). Atticus was really put out when he realized we didn't have a flag to put in front of the house. That didn't stop him....He drew one up, found some tent stakes, and voila! Determination is his middle name!

Halloween photos...

FALL SALSA!

This is what happens around here when you go visiting teaching to pro-gardeners at the end of harvest. I couldn't resist and made salsa to have through the winter!
(The kids loved the fresh grape juice too!!)

mmm..WOW..eee !

slideshow below is some of the photos from our trip to MAUI. (fyi~ we traveled from Wailea, Hana (fav), to Kanaapali) I realize people don't really care to look at tons of pictures of scenery of "OUR" great vacation. We really didn't take that many pictures anyhow! I always was bored with my grandparents photos from trips they took esp. the ones without people in them.
I also edited and left some out so that it would be PG rated...and you are SO welcome!!
~enjoy

MAUI!

ALOHA! It has been almost 4 years since I have been trying to find a way to get back to my favorite place, MAUI! After knowing it wouldn't happen in residency, fellowship, and then in Chelan where only 2 doctors were at the clinic (that's 2 docs counting Benny)...well, we finally did it!! I think after a crazy summer it was much needed!
Thanks SO much for Grandmommy for watching the kids for 8 days! I don't know how she did it, but we will always appreciate her sacrificing her time away from PA to take care of the kids & let us have this time together!! THANK YOU XOXO!!
We really went to relax...no tv, work, making food, waking up to an alarm,...etc. Though on the way over on the long flight Benny did end up hanging out in first class when a lady drank too much and then hit her head while standing up too fast. It was kind of comical for me that before the trip even started he was working and "on call" by the flight attendants for the rest of the flight.
What an awesome vacation it was!!!!
When I get over my jet lag (how long does that last?) I will photobucket all the photos & add a top 10 list! Mahalo!

Happy Birthday Liz!

Happy Birthday to a SWEET sister who gets EXCITED about all of the simple things below~

Diet Coke (specifically Jake's with vanilla)
Disneyland in all shapes and forms
a Lazy River
her mother.
Basic cheap noodles with red sauce
MARK!!!
Dogs.
T-shirts that say things and/or sparkle
PINK!
thanksgiving dinner any day of the year
lost M&M's found under a couch (wait, who is that really?)
the SUN!
African Orphans
NAPS!
Peach Sucky Things
Vegas
People Magazine
24 hr. read-a-thons without treats
Roast Beef that can be cooked in a microwave.


What reminds you of LIZ?

Stehekin Weekend

Here are a few favorite photos from the trip! Want the story, call me.~
4 hr boat ride from Chelan. We adopt a little girl from Sweden, Inez.

Map in the old one room school house.

Purple Point Campsite (or across the street from it)

In the tent.

Biking.

making FIRE!

Rainbow Falls

This is right after I almost had a tree hit me. The automatic timer took this photo as I was running for safety.

The Red Team from The Amazing Race and our friends the Youngs.

Fishing.

Archery.

Our sweet orange ride home! Only 20 min. !

Atticus was a talker the entire way and got muted several times by the pilot.
So funny!!