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Thanksgiving and Christmas were awesome again this year. We continued the 1 year-old tradition of celebrating Christmas in Bellevue for the first 5 days of the break, then heading up to Grandma and Grandpa's house for the rest. We also continued the 1 year-old tradition of being invited to Paisley and Peter Madison's house for their huge Christmas feast! This time of year is especially awesome with little ones, and ours seem to be at the perfect age to appreciate Christmas.
-Rob and Nicole
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The force is strong with this one. Looks like he needs all the help he can get.
Jacqueline walks Lia down the new retaining wall at Ross & Chris' house.
Elliot watched the Christmas Train at the tree farm in Issaquah
Mom and Lia in front of the fire truck
Elliot, Mom, and Lia walk back to the hot dog house after another successful tree hunt
Making Mom's Christmas card.
Elliot's letter to Santa Claus. We drew a stamp on the front and mailed it off to the North Pole.
Christmas Eve dinner with Brian and Jen Patenaude, plus Jacqueline and David.
The tree, just before the kids come down the hallway.
At the Crack of Dawn... the kids are inspecting the cookies and milk left out for Santa.
The Christmas tree with the kid's cards on it. Elliot's card to Mom is in the center.
Lia shows off her milkstache.
Elliot and Cora at the Madison's house after an amazing Christmas dinner.
Amelie pauses between songs for a quick smile.
Lia tries Elliot's bike with a little help from Grandma.
We ride the gondola to the top of Grouse Mountain for some snowboarding action with Elliot!
I try to keep up with Elliot, who's a veteran now in his 2nd snowboarding season.
Lia's first Subway ride.
On the aquabus, Elliot and Lia enjoy steamed milks from Urban Fare.
Nicole catches a rare ray of sun from aboard the aquabus.
Lia's clearly excited for her photo shoot in curls. Grandma and Mom spent a while getting her ready.
We got to have lunch with Michael and Anna up on Commercial Drive in Vancouver.
"Eat a mouthful of my dust, Elliot!" "Taste my tailpipes, Lia!"
Here's The Legion. Upstairs is the huge dance hall where I saw Nicole for the very first time in January 1999. |
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Jason also has the force. Seems a lot more comfortable about it, too.
Elliot and Dad zero in on their quarry!
Christmas trees + trains + real fire truck!
"Next year I get to hold the saw, K?"
Elliot and Lia pose after letting Santa know about their Christmas toy lists
Sam Arguez and Rob get a little too close for Santa's liking.
I added a special black light sconce to illuminate Elliot's ceiling stars. Also added a wall-heater, thermostat, and a switch for the light. Here's my diagram and wiring job. Worked the first time! Another amateur electrician success story. ;-) Wish that happened more often...
William performs a flying suplex, landing a perfect elbow just above Brian's ear for the knockout. You can see how Brian is already losing consciousness in his right eye.
"My own kitchen tools! Just what I asked Santa for!"
"I'll have a coffee! Make it a double, please!"
"Whatchoo looking at, Mom? Oh, you lookin' at this?"
"I need to turn Elliot into a frog. Is my magical princess wand in here, Grandma?"
Charlie inspects her hand-made ornament at the Madison's house after Christmas dinner.
Post-Christmas bike ride to burn some of those calories.
Grandma, Lia, and Nicole dangerously close to the wooden bear at the summit of Grouse Mountain in Vancouver.
Elliot and Nicole at the top of Grouse Mountain in Vancouver.
The next day we board a subway on our journey to The Island of Toys!
The Island of Toys is best reached by aquabus!
"All clear from the bow!"
Lia scans the horizon, trying to catch a glimpse of the Island of Toys through the clouds.
She couldn't wait to pose, so we got a picture of her with the curlers still in.
Lia gets to show off her new curls!
"You two hooligans have walked on my grass for the LAST TIME!"
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