Merry Christmas!

Earlier in December, Shawn and I went down to the Davenport Hotel for our annual date night tradition of checking out the Christmas Tree Elegance tree display. It was a real fun night, and I look forward to doing it each year. Here's a photo of us in the hotel lobby. Christmas we unwrapped presents and spent time with family. A fun time was had by all.I got a cute little Gumby and Pokey set in my stocking. How cute!The three amigos on Christmas EveMerry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Can you believe it's after Christmas and I haven't even posted pics from Thanksgiving weekend yet? Oh how I've become such a horrible blogger lately. I think about it often, but for some reason it always seems like a burden.

Thanksgiving weekend, Shawn, Ellie and I headed over to Seattle to spend time with my family and also to accomplish some wedding related tasks.

Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful, but I forgot to take any photos - this one of Ellie, me and my Mom in the car on the way is the only one I have of the day. For dinner we went to my Aunt Mary's house and all of my cousins and aunts and uncles were there, it was SO good to see them all again. The day after Thanksgiving we went up to Pike's Place Market to shop around. We had to stop near the market and check out the famous gum wall. Pretty gross, but also pretty amazing - quite a sight to see. The market was so pretty all decked out for Christmas with greenery everywhere and it was a gorgeous, sunny day!Saturday afternoon, the fam made about 200 wedding announcements for the upcoming wedding of Yours Truly. There was quite an assembly line. Dad stamped...Mom and I were in charge of the embossing powder...and Ellie and Shawn worked the heat gun. Check all of those out!!!After they were all dry, we layered them onto some beautiful Maui ocean colored paper. When you all receive your announcement in the mail, you can be sure that many hours of T.L.C went into each one! :)After our laborious day, we went to see the Zoolights at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma. Here's a cute family photo.Here's a photo of the group of all of us at Zoolights taking in all of the beauty. L to R is Travis, Ellie, Shawn, Me, Mom, and Dad. The lights were so pretty, and this tree was my absolute favorite!!Awww... how cute. No mistletoe, but I still got a kiss. I love this dude.