2014 Girls Basketball

The girls had a great basketball season this year.  They got to play with the kids from Northwest Christian School.  The coaches, Troy Burns and Brenda Carey, were amazing.  The girls still love basketball and can't wait to play more in the future.  

Playoffs

We went to the Bradeen's house for the Seahawks' playoff game last night.  They made homemade pizzas!  Emma, Kaydin, Olivia and Riley gobbled it right up!

Cruz and Marcus enjoyed it too.  It was great to get together with everyone; it's been a while.  It was also great to see the Seahawks get another WIN!!!

Gonzaga Basketball

The girls are nearing the end of their basketball season and Marcus is just about to begin his season.  Last weekend Gonzaga University did a one day camp so we signed the kids up.  They were all very excited...they loved the camp they did this summer so they were ready for more! Kaydin joined this camp too. We left them there for 5 hours of basketball.  Their coaches were players and staff members of the current teams.  Very exiting!  At the end they all got to get autographs of the players. Everyone signed the cover of a program.  The entire men's team was there so this could be pretty valuable someday. 

One of the women's players was named Emma...our Emma just had to get a picture with her.

And of course there is Kevin Pangos too.  Olivia has a bit of a crush on him.  She loved him from the first day of summer camp.  She didn't even know how famous he was until we pointed him out on TV...now she is star struck!

It was another great GU camp.  The kids learned a lot.  They will be going to the summer camp again this year too.  What a great opportunity for these kids!

We Finally got SNOW!

A Few Changes

We had all kids in one room...this week we convinced the girls to move downstairs...at ages 7, 8 and 8 the shared room wasn't working as well as it used too. The girls' room turned out so cute!

Marc also made me a mud room downstairs to get rid of the clutter upstairs. 

Christmas 2014

Marc and I left the kids at Gramie and Poppi's for the week before Christmas so they could hang out with their cousins...we had to work.  Gramie had lots of stuff planned including making these cool snowmen from items they found at home.

We came back on Christmas Eve...just in time for cousin pictures with matching PJs.

Merry Christmas Olivia, Marcus and Emma.

The kid were up early Christmas morning.  Marcus was super excited to have his Daddy back for snuggles in the morning.

The girls were excited to have Mommy for morning snuggles too.

All the kids were super excited to see what Santa brought.  Auntie Kimmie made everyone wait until all the adults were ready.

They were okay with it at first.

Then they started to lose their patience.

Tracy, Gramie and Kimmie thought it would be fun to take lots of pictures.

Then off they went.  Look at those huge gifts!

Marcus started with his stocking...lots of goodies there.

Emma couldn't believe it!  A new camper and jeep for the girls' American Girl dolls.

Olivia showed me all the cool things inside.

She LOVED it!

I thought it was pretty cool too.

Marcus got a cool remote control and motion censored dinosaur.

It was very cool...it is almost like a pet!

Breakfast time!  Yum!

The kids got dressed then it was time to open gifts from everyone else.

Marc and I got the kids mini ipads this year!

Look at that mess of presents...everyone was spoiled!

Let's just say the ipads were a hit.  There will be rules...but we let them explore for the rest of the weekend.

We drove down to Yakima on Friday morning to take Grandma to lunch.  It was great to see her.  She is doing awesome!

Gramie and Poppi hit the road to Arizona yesterday and we stuck around for one more day to close up their house for them.  Raymond also came over for a visit...I don't know what I was thinking, I didn't get one picture of Raymond. 

 This is our 2014 Family Photo taken just before everyone left.  

Overall it was a great Christmas this year!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Happy New Year too!