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Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas Eve at the Asian Market



This is our Duck Duck Goose Picture. 
This is becoming a favorite Christmas Eve Tradition of ours.  Every Christmas Eve we go to an Asian market and get some fun unique foods to try and get some traditional favorites.  We also visit our favorite stores.  Scott served his mission in Taiwan and so this is a special way for him to share a part of himself and what he loves with his family.



 We got some purple and green rolls to try this time. 

They were so good!

 My kids love going into the toy store there.
Rachel and I found some pig snouts for sale.  Yum? 
We always buy crab.  They are always 5-6 dollars a pound, fresh!  We picked the ones we wanted, and we cooked up two.  We always eat one right away, and we save a cooked one for Christmas lunch.  

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Fun in Discovery Bay

 
This is a good map that shows where we stayed on our vacation the week before Christmas.  Up at the north of WA, by Port Angeles, there are two small towns called Sequim and Blyn.  We stayed between Blyn and Port Townsend which is the city to the east of Blyn.  Blyn is where the Indian reservation was.  Sequim is a sweet little town we went to a couple of times. And we went to Port Townsend once.  There is an old Army Base there that is now a national park.  Very cool.


We swam every day. There was an indoor pool and hot tub.  Most days were were the only ones at the pool.  It wasn't a deep pool, so Brian and Andrew were able to swim without much fear.

We played games every day.  We started keeping a log of the games we played and who won each game, but unfortunately for most of us, after Rachel and Scott's name were the only ones we were writing down, we stopped doing that.  

We were happy to see the resort has a boat launch and a dock, so if we go in the summer we can bring our boat!

 This day we decided to make a gingerbread house that we got for Christmas last year.  Our kids loved it! 

 Can you say gross!  Eric get your hand out of your mouth!!!
 This is the finished product.  Held together by lots of love.
This is the dock I was telling you about.  This picture was taken out our balcony. 
Brian, Rachel and Scott were checking out the dock.  Rachel said she even touched a starfish.  Pretty cool.

We also entered a scavenger hunt contest.  We came in second!  We thought we were first because we came in first but a family started after us and finished in less time.  We were not happy!!!  The sad part about that is we spent most of our time making sure we got the exact thing the riddle was telling us to, and most people were not as particular as we were.  In the end they never checked the bags!!!  We are too competitive as a family and this really bugged!  But we cowboyed up and smiled and took our loss with a half-grin.
 This is a picture of where we stayed
 The veiw from our balcony
The indoor pool and hot tub

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Never ever will you ever see this again in your life!!!

Eric found the one and only...never before seen...not a double, or even a triple, but a quadruple mini wheat!  Four mini wheats stuck together, fresh out of the box. 

Now you have seen one.  Now your life is complete.

Thank you for enjoying this moment with Eric.

Fun at the Indian Reservation

 So Andrew said he had been studying about totem poles at school, so we stopped to take some pictures of totem poles and kinda landed into a cool spot of luck.  We went into a gallery/store where a native american told us that her son was going to work on carving a totem pole and wondered if our kids wanted to watch.  So we went with him and got to watch him carve totem poles! 
 Eric said the guy had something in his nose...(I think it was Eric's finger)
 Andrew and Brian watching the carving
This is a big finished totem pole that the kids found.  They cost $5,000. 00 per foot.  Can you guess how much this one might have cost?  They were pretty impressive.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas is Coming...

We finally decorated our tree before leaving on our little vacation. 
 Andrew wanted to earn some money for buying Christmas presents, so Scott put him to work blowing leaves outside...in the rain.  He was so frozen and wet when he came in.  But he earned his $3.00!
Scott and I got to go on a dinner cruise around Seattle for Scott's Work Christmas party.  This boat behind us had Christmas carolers singing for a while.  It was really fun. The food was so-so, but the boat part was great! 

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

White Elephant Christmas Pary

 This was the best party ever.  These are a few of my wonderful friends that were at the party. 
 This is the White Elephant Man.  This present ended up being a vacuum cleaner that kinda sucked...
 Playing Minute-To-Win-It at the party.  Up above we have Mike Bassett and Megan Jacobsen playing Junk in the Trunk. They had to shake the balls that were in the tissue container out by shaking their "trunks".  Poor Meg is pregnant and realized that it is harder to twist around with a baby inside you.  Mike won that battle.
I am trying to get these candies into my mouth.  It wasn't as easy as it looked. 

This was such a fun party! 

Christmas Tree

 Rachel sang in the Festival of the Nativity with the Stake Children's Choir.  She did such a great job!  She is growing up so fast.  She was so excited to get all dressed up. She even got to wear a touch of make-up that night. (Scott wasn't too happy about that)
 Sorry these pictures are kind-of in reverse order.  Well we went and found our tree and cut it down.  Andrew is the one who spotted the tree and insisted that we use it.  Well he won.  We couldn't find a better tree, or we just ran out of patience.  As you can see Eric is really excited about this family tradition.

Monday, December 5, 2011

The Rest of November...

 Brian finished soccer!  He got awarded soccer player with the most emotional stability.
 Scott played paintball with his army friend, Captain Travis Bailey.  He had an amazing time.
 Rachel went with me to the Garners for a Zumba Party.  As you can see Cameron got into it as well.
 Rachel started babysitting.  She loves to babysit, and does such a fantastic job.
 Scott and Eric made duct tape ties in Young Men.  Very impressive.
 Rachel completed her Faith in God!  Yippy!!  Good Job Rachel!
 Scott made some amazing apple pies for Thanksgiving.
 Rachel loved hanging out with her cousins Daphni, and Kaylee
 Scott with the Nelson twins, Beck and Reese.
 This is the Thanksgiving run everyone did (except me, I forgot my running shoes) :-(  The kids ran a mile, Eric ran 3 and Scott ran 7.
Tyler Nelson, Scott and me after the wonderful Thanksgiving feast.  Best food ever!

We are so blessed to have such a great family, and wonderful friends. We love you all!