Cheery Mistmass

Did we ever get spoiled. The family word was that it was to be a light gift year, so we weren't to spend much. Relieved, we came into Christmas with a lighter load of gifts than usual and looked forward to carrying home less "stuff", but not only did everyone else lie and overdid the gift-giving again, they gave a proportionately high number of awesome gifts this year. Bank!

Not only that, but JBRJ hosted another amazing Christmas with a dinner spread that would have made a King blush: prime rib, 20-times baked potatoes, dinner rolls softer than Kian's thighs, etc etc. The morning opened with bloody mary's, need I say more?

The Holidays, Backwards

Okay, I've been slacking. Again.

I have a ton of pictures, so no excuses, and here it is on Christmas Eve and I'm making the first post in over 2-weeks. Lame. But this is the nature of the Holidays, this falling behind, never quite meeting expectations, being ever late, and so let this act of tardiness be the very expression which I'm attempting to express. Tomorrow we'll be late to Joanie's house for Christmas breakfast, you can bet on it. And it will be because we were late in wrapping our presents, late in baking the pie for Christmas dinner, late in putting Kian to bed, late to bed, late to the start-line two weeks ago, late for my own birth for you-know-who's sake... its a sort of cascade of lateness. But our presents look fantastic, our pie is going to be frickin amazing, Kian and we are going to sleep like babies tonight. You see, its more about the quality and so late isn't everything. And these pictures here are better late than never, eh?

Here are some pics from tonight with Papa and Grammy Reid at church and at home. There are some pics of me chasing Kian around the living room and vice versa. There are some pics of the 3 of us in Volunteer Park making pictures of ourselves over Seattle's skyline. There should be some pics of Kian eating doodah's (cookies) and us drinking hoohah's (hot toddy's).

Christmas Eve dinner, church service... happy hours!

Papa reading Kian "The Night Before Xmas".

Kian practicing "... and with a wink he took off up the chimney", or something like that.

A few from the photo shoot...

Thanksgiving For Snow

I missed all the fuss. I was down in Tucson soaking up sun when the snows hit Seattle and Kian went hog wild playing in his first snow of winter. Grandma and pa Francis were in town visiting from Flagstaff and even they got to experience their first snows of the season. I was back in time for turkey with extended family and the rest of the week we got our dose of holiday fun.

Train wreck.

Train ride.

Kian stylin in his new hoodie sweater knitted by Grandma MA.

Downtown carousel.

We fought the crowds but it was worth it to catch the Seattle tree

and star lighting event.