Another day of snow and fun

The kids were able to get out of the house today and go tubing with Gabbie's friend Sophie. As you can see there is lots of fresh powder and that makes for a lot of fun tubing down the hill.

A Lazy Sunday morning

The three kids and Roxy relaxing and watching TV after all the fun last night.

Let it snow

As we celebrated Christmas inside the house, snow kept falling outside.  Roxy loved it.

All the presents

Well it seems once again it seems like we were trying to solve the worlds economic problems with the amount of presents the kids got.  Dayanara was over after her second present and just wanted to play with her make up kit, but with some prodding she make it through the rest of her presents.  Gavin and Gabbie opened all their presents before playing with all their different presents.  Gavin loved his Sports Illustrated College Football book and Star Wars Lego.  Gabbie loved all her presents but like good big cousin spent most of the time helping Dayanara play with her presents.

While the kids played the adults enjoyed opening all the nice presents we got from each other. 

Santilli Christmas Dinner at Our House

Due Josh and myself having to save lives over Christmas we scheduled the Santilli Christmas on Saturday night so everyone could be there.  We six to eight inches of snow outside we all settled in for a fun night of celebrating Christmas together.  Lot of good food and drinks filled the night, with the three kids running around having a great time.

Dinner was prime rib with roasted squash and potatoes.

Cousin Dayanara's 2nd Birthday party

Gabbie and Gavin helped celebrate the 2nd Birthday of their cousin Dayanara on Friday night.  Balloons, presents and birthday cake what fun it was.  It was a very monkey birthday.

Gran arrives to make treats and the christmas pudding

Gran arrived in cold Portland on Wednesday to spend Christmas in Oregon.  After a nights rest Gran was in the kitchen with all four Gran kids and Stephanie making different Christmas treats and most importantly the traditional Christmas Pudding.

First Snow Fall

The snow started falling about 7 am Sunday morning and kept snowing most of the day until it go to about two inches.  As you could see the kids and Roxy loved the snow.  They did get to make a snowman, even though it was little.

Progressive Dinner 2008

Friends and family get together for the 2008 version of the progressive diner.  This year we started at the Beach house for appetizers, then on our house for salad.  Our main course was at Steve and Cathy's house, and the final stop for desert was at Josh and Danielle's house.  Once again everyone seemed to have lots of fun. 

Nutcracker Ballet 2008

Once again for Christmas the festivities started with the first weekend in December filled with the Nutcracker Ballet.  This year in the ballet Gabbie was a Russian Princes.  They performed three shows on Saturday(2) and Sunday(1).  Of course Gabbie was the best ballerina in the show.  The high light of the three shows for Gabbie was she got to give flowers at the end of the Saturday night performance to one of the main Ballerinas in the show.

Kids at the Beaver vs. Cal game

All of us at the Beavers vs. Cal Bears football game.  Great fun day for all of us.

Kids playing at the beach on the Puget Sound

We all went up to our friends Errin and Tam's house in Buckley, WA just east of Seattle for a couple of days.  After spending time playing around the house and riding Taylor and Tanners dirt bikes, we spent an afternoon at the beach.  We were in an area on the Puget Sound near Federal Way.  The four kids had fun playing on the beach and in the water.  The high light of the day was collecting Sand Dollars on the beach.