I get comments all the time about having all girls.  This was one of those times and I loved every minute of it!  We loved it so much we made an appointment for Tom to enjoy one on his next day off!!

We were given 3 tickets at the last minute for a performance of The Nutcracker at McCaw Hall on December 27th.  Tom wanted Sage, Molly and I to go so he stayed home with Ashley and ate crab (Ashley's request), watched movies and played.  The only problem was that Sage...

After a busy month, Christmas morning was finally here.  We only had a short time with Tom before he had to go to work, but had a relaxing morning full of presents, food and even a nap for Tom.  We spent time in the afternoon watching "The Nativity" and talking about...

It's the last day of school for the year, Christmas parties planned . . . and then a 6 am call from the school that there is a 2 hour delay.  Fast forward an hour and a half and another call - school is cancelled because of snow.  It was only an inch, but we'll take...

I started blogging back when scrapbooking became difficult because of small children.  I wanted to have a way to remember things that were going on in our lives without having to worry about my 2 year old injuring herself with one of my many scrapbooking supplies....

  Tom was off today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so we kept the kids home from school and headed up to Seattle for the day for our annual Seattle Christmas Trip.  We headed out the door early to take the Sounder instead of the car. We started off at Pike's....

We found out about Snowflake Lane up in Bellevue last Christmas and loved it. So I added it to our long list of things to do during the Christmas season and the girls and I headed up there last night.  It was 25 degrees out and we bundled up in our snow gear and...

A few people have asked me recently what our Christmas traditions are as a family and for some reason, I can't ever think of them off the top of my head . . . maybe it's just too early in December.  So, this post is mostly for myself and to keep a record of things we...