December Photo Dump

 The tree is up!

Christmas Lists:

Love where I live!

Cam loves the Target dog!

The girls had a recital. 

Kimber doesn't take lessons anymore, but b/c she helps Lily with piano, Krystl asked her to play the duet with her.  They did a great job.

The fog was coming to get us...

Drawing with chalk on a nice sunny day:

I finally bit the $250 bullet and ordered all my chatbooks :)

a new hairdo

James our elf needed a day off...so he made himself a spa.  Normally he just moves from one place to another, so this was a little out of character for him.

Cookies, cocoa, and the Grinch for mutual:

Cam and one of her besties, Kaylee:

We got to go and see Newsies at the Village Theater in Issaquah.  It was so so so so so good.

Giant gift exchange for the Youth at the Bishop McIntoshes house.

Mia Maids went and wrapped presents:

and then went to the botanical gardens in Bellevue:

Cam got to go to mutual with Kimber and decorate a gingerbread house:

Being silly with Kenzie:

the pictures that got the most likes in 2017 on Instagram:

Katie came and stayed with us for a night :)

My mom and I spent an afternoon watching UW football while working on a puzzle.  It was so nice.

New Years Eve

We had a fun New Years Eve, full of family and friends.  We started the day with church, then went to my parents for dinner, and then Konrad, Allison, and I headed to the Liechty's.

Sledding near Crystal Mountain Resort

We went sledding with the Baumgartners near Crystal Mountain Resort and had a blast.  This was a new spot that Jordan Johnson and Melissa Morton told me about.  You head towards the resort and then take a right down a little side road. The road ends in a big parking lot and the sledding hill is right there.  It was perfect.

Camryn couldn't get enough and went down over and over and over.

Another group there was talking about how this used to be a ski run (it was in the middle of the big trees, the littler trees must have grown after they stopped using it for skiing), so you could hike up pretty far if you wanted and sled straight down.  Only a few of us braved that, most of us stuck to the smaller hill on the left of this picture (where Sam and Cam are).

Uh oh...heading off track...

Crash!

"I'm okay!"

Face full of snow anyone?

So pretty and majestic!

Snowball fight!

Time to make a snow fort...

In their fort talking to the adults.

Cam would start down the hill and then pull her hat over her face...

Sam started being crazy and attempting tricks off the jump.  Her poor knees!

This picture makes it look like she was crying, but it was just her making a nervous this is going to hurt face :)

The day ended on a scary note.  An adult was sledding down the hill and actually ran into a car that was driving, actually it was coming to a stop and was actually stopped when the sledder hit it.  She was pretty shook up (the driver and the sledder actually) and possibly had a broken rib or something.  They eventually used a sled as a body board and lifted her into the back of an SUV to take her to get checked out.  Hoping she is okay!