pre-Christmas stuff

Christmas Boats

Here's some pics of when we went to see the Christmas boats at Janet's house. The kids all had a lot of fun.

Christmas portraits

On Dec 17th, the whole family went to Tacoma to get the kids' portraits taken at The Picture People, and to visit Trader Joe's. Jamie's haircut was screwed-up, Abby had a black-eye, and neither were in a very good mood by the time we got there, but we did it anyways and got a few good ones.

All ready to go...

The only decent one of both them together...

Trimming the tree

For pictures of when we went to get the tree, go to Sydney's webpage (in our fave sites list). After a week of only having lights on our tree, we finally decorated it. Each of our ornaments is wrapped up to keep it from breaking and Jamie had such a fun time unwrapping each one. He'd hold it up after he opened it and say "look at dis!"

Abby tries to chew on the lights...

Look at dis!

Showing off her new walking skills...

Here's me putting on ornaments...


Abby did a good job of taking them back off...