Christmas Break

Well we started off this month long party by going to California for Phil's company Christmas party. Phil works for three days and I hang out with Ashlee. We took her girls to Disneyland and only took this one picture the entire trip. It was great to get to hang out with her and meet Olivia who was born in July. Arleigh and Emery actually liked me this time and Emery wanted to go on all the rides with me at Disneyland.
Then the next week we loaded everyone up and headed down to Portland for another company party with Phil's crew in Portland. I sent a random email down to my cousin Angelica to see if she would watch my kids that night while we did the dinner. It is so great to have family all over that are willing to watch my kids at the drop of a hat even when I haven't seen them in years. They loved playing with her kids and Miya was super excited to learn that she had even more cousins...they are like 3rd cousins or something?
Christmas was great and we spent the morning here at our house opening presents then went over to Vashon to spend time with Phil's family. We spent the night and played the whole next day too.
We have the world's easiest kids to please (they have learned not to expect much I guess). They were so excited about everything they got and were smiley and sweet all morning.

I didn't take any picture of Cannon with his yo-yo, but he loves it. He is always trying to learn new tricks and he has been bringing it up to quiet-time everyday to get better at walking the dog.

Lyla got a stroller and she has been pushing it around the house for the past week. She always wants the one at Nana's so we thought it was time to get one around here.

Then this past week after parties at neighbors and friends we had to take a little time to clean up one of the rentals since we had a tenant move out the end of December. Nothing like cleaning up after people leave to top of the Holidays. The kids were good though during the cleaning and it didn't seem too bad. Phil put insulation under the floor in the crawl space and came home needing to shave his arms to get the stuff out. We decided to try just combing it out and it ended up more like a wax job when we were finished.

I had to wake up Miya and Cannon for school this morning because we are a little out of the habit of getting up early. Plus with the rain clouds it was super dark still at 7:00. I am trying to get caught up on things this morning and will head over to volunteer today in Cannon's class.

Can't even believe it is 2010. Phil said, "yeah, and just think we were married in the 90's." We are so old! Happy New Year.