We went to Lake Chelan with our friends, the Estes, for mid-winter break. The boys had a day of skiing, girls had a day of shopping. There was a lot of pool and hot tub playing and relaxing, many great meals and lots of laughs.

Kieron, Capri, Aspen, Layla, Silas, Hudson & Landry

Lake Chelan

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Fun at the pool

Twinning!
 

Pickle-ball!

Dinner Out

The boys went skiing one day while the girls shopped 

Here’s what we were up to in January. We rang in the New Year with friends.

Andrew turned 15 the next day

Scott and Nicole visited us on the way back to WWU. Here they are trying out the Oculus

Look at all the pets together!

Making French toast

Phoebe loves getting pupacinos at Starbucks

Layla did a cheer camp and got to cheer at halftime at the girls basketball game

Pink hair!

A cute note from Layla

Silas had a great season playing basketball – Go Gladiators!

At the First Grade Toymaker’s Workshop

Nana went to New Zealand for a couple months. Here are a few pics from her time there

Here’s the rest of what we were up to in December. Of course we visited Santa.

Snow! Silas and his buddy, Ethan

Layla and Kennedy

Celebrating Silas’ friend, Justin’s, birthday

We went to see Cinderella at the Village Theatre
 

Silas had a choir performance at the downtown tree lighting  

Dinner at The Club with Grammy and Papa

December Bunco

We lost power for 24 hours, just long enough for it to be fun and not too much of an inconvenience

Layla had her gymnastics Devo Demo   

Avery and friends at the pass

Kieron and Virgil baking gingerbread cookies

College campus tour with AVID

More baking in preparation for Christmas

Christmas morning was pretty chill with just the eight of us.


 

The boys got an Oculus for Christmas and let Grammy and Papa try it out.

Christmas Eve was a little quieter than normal this year. Nana is in New Zealand for a few months, and the pass closed both ways, so the Avery’s of Pullman couldn’t make it over either. So it was just us, Grammy and Papa and a ton of food. We made the most of it though, and had a good time celebrating together.

These two played a lot of cards together

Avery and Papa, sharing time together on the piano
   

Because Uncle Scott couldn’t be here and Layla is old enough to recognize her dad in a Santa suit, we were left with a Christmas Eve crisis! Fortunately, our amazing neighbors pulled through and Santa still showed up. Let the magic live on!

“Do you see Rudolph?!”

Papa and all the animals

Avery and Silas, trying out the new gaming monitor