Christmas Tree

This year the twins are really interested in the Christmas tree. After one day of trying to keep them away from the tree so they wouldn't break the ornaments I decided they would need their own tree! They now have a tree in the living room upstairs with soft ornaments and they have been decorating and redecorating every day! They also attempted to climb the tree, but it fell over. Luckily there was nothing breakable on it!!

Does UPS Deliver to Submarines?

Thanksgiving week we had a decent amount of snow. After living in Hawaii and South Carolina we were all enjoying the winter wonderland! However, the next day we lost power for about 24 hours! It was in the upper 40s inside our house. It was horrible! We ended up spending most of the day at our neighbor's house. She has a gas fireplace so we were able to keep her living room in the 60s. We are hoping for more snow this year, but I'd really like to keep the power on next time :)

Watching the Snow fall!

Seattle

Brian's cousin Katherine came for a visit. We spent one day doing a quick tour of downtown Seattle. We saw the Space Needle, rode the monorail, checked out Pike Street, and went to the Seattle Center.

Pike Street

Katherine and the twins inside the Space Needle

Rides at Seattle Center

Parker and Rylee checking out the zero visibility from the top of the space needle. It was so foggy we couldn't see anything. The kids ran laps around the top of the space needle because we were the only people up there!

Dirt!

We had a dump truck come and deliver 4100 pounds of top soil in our drive way. We moved all of it to the back yard by wheel barrow and spread all of it today. Brian and I are both very sore this evening! Tomorrow We're building the playhouse and Monday we're seeding the back yard. Hopefully in a month we'll have a beautiful back yard! We found out that having a dump truck deliver a pile of dirt is the easiest and fastest way to meet all of the kids in the neighborhood! We ended up with 5 kids playing in our giant "sand box"! Brian was hoping for some of their dads to come over and offer to help!

Parker was singing "Hi-ho, hi-ho, its off to work I go"

Rylee working on her Supervisory skills :)

The boys working hard!

Getting ready for the top soil

Brian and Parker worked all day to get the back yard ready for a bunch of top soil arriving tomorrow. Ryee did a great job supervising :)