Holiday Fun!

Here's some pictures showing some of the fun we had during our Christmas break.  We had a small gift exchange, went overnight to Seattle, did the Seattle Underground Tour and shopped downtown at the famous Nordstroms & Macy's.  It was a great time together as family!

Having fun with Indonesian family...

Here's just a few photos of the time we spent with Mary-Lynn & Dawid (my sister and her son visiting from Indonesia).  It snowed during the first night they were here so it was a winter wonderland when they woke up.  We took them skating - Dawid's first time and he did great!  We had a fondue evening with cousins from the valley the last night they were here - and the first night Lorelle and Jake arrived.  It was a wonderful time - so glad it was possible for them to stop by here for a few days before visiting the rest of the family in Ontario.  (The last photo is at the SeaTac airport - a beautiful quartet dressed in Charles Dickens era clothing sang beautiful Christmas carols throughout the airport)

Celebrating 80 years!!

This past Nov. 5th was my Dad's 80th birthday so I flew out to Ontario to join the celebration.   I arrived on a Friday and the following day we helped set up the JCS gym for a catered dinner.  We had a beautiful time together - although we were missing my sister's family from Indonesia and mine back in Lynden.  We had a photo booth set up where people had to set up a pose for each month based on when their birthday was.  The plan is to design a calendar with these photos (and scanned in missing people) on each months page.

The following Sunday we served cake (& coffee) to the congregation after the first service.  My parents have been in the same congregation all of their married life & it's a large church.  It was lots of fun talking to people I had not seen in years.  The following day my parents had family and friends over for morning coffee & I got to catch up with many relatives.  So glad I decided to fly out and so thankful that God has blessed Dad with so many years!   More great memories! 

Happy Birthday Vincent!

Vincent turned 3 on Oct. 15th.  It was fun to see how he understood it was his special day - even though he wasn't always thrilled with the attention he got.  After it was all over anyone who got a present or something special he would be upset with because "it's Vincent's happy birthday".  It's hard being a kid...  Here's some photos of gift opening and his little party with some friends.

The Pumpkin Patch!!

October was beautiful - so we made sure we enjoyed the outdoors as much as possible.  On a sunny Friday we set off to Stoney Ridge Farms to enjoy the animals, the pumpkins, apples and the corn maze with a group of friends.  It was super busy there - but we decided to stay for lunch and by that time all the pre-schools seemed to have left and things were a little less crazy.  The kids just loved it - especially the hay ride to the corn maze!!