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Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in Pullman again this year. As always, it is great being together.

Kieron drove the first half of the way there and Avery drove the second half.

Watching the Macy’s Parade

Helping Grammy set the table

Kieron baked some rolls he got in his cooking class











Jonathan, tossing the football with Avery and Kieron

Before dinner – a few family pics







Uncle Scott’s spatchcocked turkey





We played a family trivia game that Grammy put together






The kids played Monopoly together while some of us had a Yahtzee game going


Watching Three Stooges clips from YouTube at Uncle Scott & Aunt Manivanh’s

Silas tried some of Uncle Scott’s homemade grenadine

Setting up Dickens Village on Friday







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Mother’s Day Vacay

This year a few friends and I celebrated Mother’s Day with a girls trip to Scottsdale. We spent two nights in a beautiful, roomy suite and came back late Saturday night to spend Sunday with our families. We had an amazing time relaxing during the day and whooping it up at night!





The first night we met up with a college friend of Becky and her husband’s and he showed us the good spots to go downtown.




We went to a really cool espresso martini bar

Then we headed to Old Scottsdale for some dancing


We had a laugh the next morning about misbuttoned pajamas

The second day we got some spa treatments and spent the afternoon at the rooftop spa pool


Before heading out for night two.

Yajaira met up with her cousins for dinner while the rest of us met up with Niki, who moved to Arizona last year.


After dinner it was the four us again until I came down with food poisoning shortly after arriving at the first bar we went to. I Ubered back to the hotel and went to bed while these three lived it up. Fortunately, I woke up feeling well again.

Poolside, on our last day


Homeward bound

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Easter

Nana and Frank came up to visit for Easter this year. We had a traditional holiday morning while Avery went to church with Erika, followed by brunch with friends at Laura and Simon’s.




Dying eggs




Eggs a la Goldenrod



Brunch




Playing The Floor is Lava

With Cecily at the pool egg hunt.

Waiting to jump in



With Colette & Lawson

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