We had a Merry Christmas Eve! It was fun celebrating without the house under construction this year, although Nana was down with the flu and couldn’t come. We did all our regular traditions, played lots of games and enjoyed being together.
Galatea on Christmas Eve
December was a busy month! After Cabo, we had quite a few holiday parties and events. This first one is a progressive dinner with friends.
Becky and I went to The Nutcracker with our girls 
Cookie Baking party for the Layla and her friends
December Book Club with white elephant gift exchange. We’ve been going strong for five years!
Holiday Bunco with a white elephant exchange
The Holiday Drag Show at Sigillo was amazing!
Holiday Favorite Things Party
In mid-December an atmospheric river brought significant flooding and much excitement to the Snoqualmie Valley. I’ll let the pictures tell the story. Jonathan got some great aerial shots with his drone, which got featured on the news.
Snoqualmie Elementary playground
Mount Si High School
Snoqualmie Middle School was on an island. The water came right up to the sandbags but did not come in the building
Once it was safe, we took the kids to go see the Falls and downtown 
Here are some pics I grabbed off social media
Our good friend, Laura, celebrated her milestone birthday this year with a Cabo trip with roughly 50 of her nearest and dearest. We had an amazing time and made many memories!
We made it to the resort!
Sporting our Laura bday swag
Evening #1 was a pink party
A giant Labubu!
Dinner after
The next day was beautiful!
Decked out for the catamaran cruise and neon party
Uncle Greg being Uncle Greg
Back at the resort for the neon party
Another dinner
To know Uncle Greg is to love him!
Headed home
Layla’s performed in her dance studio’s put performance of The Nutcracker Sweets again, this year as a flower fairy. It’s so fun watching she and her friends develop as dancers! She’s in the back right in this pic.
Her company put on an additional Holidays on Broadway show after The Nutcracker
