Events of the past couple of months

With Christmas last month I got a little behind on the blog. now that all the busyness of Christmas and our two kid birthdays right after let me tell you what we have been up to. Back in November, the weekend after thanksgiving David and I went up to Albany, OR to visit David's family and see Wyatt at his hockey tournament in Portland. David managed to get a couple of days off so we hit the road to his sisters house in Albany. We stayed with her and had a great time catching up with all his family there. The bad news...David's truck (that he insisted on driving despite the horrible gas mileage) decided to blow its transmission right when we got there so we had to have my parents come rescue us. (thank you thank you!!) Dez (David's sister) luckily had the weekend off and was able go with us to watch Wyatt's hockey in her car. Wyatt thought it was so cool for us to be there to see him and in the end we got to have him half the weekend as his mom decided to go home early. His team played 6 games while we were there and did pretty good, only loosing one game and tying one. He even made a goal! Once all the hockey was over we spent some more time with family before making our way home. We could not find a trailer big enough to fit the truck so we ended up towing it to my uncles house in Olympia. After a quick bite to eat with my uncle and aunt which was great we headed home.

In the midst of the hockey we did manage to go to OMSI. Saturday afternoon we had a break between hockey games and so we went and had fun at OMSI (for you who don't know what that is, it is a interactive science center).

 

A few weeks before Christmas I went into Payten's class and helped her make a gingerbread house (aka graham cracker houses). There was so much candy for them to put on them it was crazy! me and payten made a very cute house if you ask me.

 

just about the same time as the gingerbread houses payten was also in a Christmas program at church. They practiced for weeks during their class time on Wednesday nights and I have got to say I was very impressed considering there was only three of them  up in front of a whole church. my little angel.

So that is what happened before Christmas and now I am caught up to the new year. just a few more to go and I will be caught up to the present day. more to come...