Christmas Break - Burke Museum

We went to the new Burke Museum.

Then, we headed over to U-Village for lunch and a little climbing on cows.

It snowed! Kinda

We got a tiny bit of snow, but amazingly, the kids missed two days of school and had two days of two-days late start.

On the first day, we headed over to Samuel's house to go sledding.  There wasn't actually enough snow to sled, so we wandered over to the park to play in the snow.

The boys built a snow fort and had a snowball fight (with whatever snow was left).

New Year's Polar Bear Plunge

Cecily decided that she wanted to do the Polar Bear Plunge this year.  Considering that her "comfort zone" is 69-71 degrees I didn't think she'd actually go for it. But I forgot about the draw of water for this girl.  She went for it and she loved it.

We got there about 15 minutes before the official plunge, that's Cecily pre-swimming in the water.

Parker was not-so interested in going in.

The, as per tradition, we destroyed our gingerbread house.

Boxing Day

Parker woke up feeling way better.

In the afternoon we headed over to Target so the kids could spend their Christmas money that was clearly burning a hole in their pocket.

Christmas not to plan

Parker woke up Christmas morning with a slight fever.  He was okay, but when he ran out of steam half-way through opening presents we knew he wasn't feeling well.

So, rather than spending the afternoon at the Need's, we had a quiet afternoon at home.

Cecily didn't hate it.

Parker missed most of it.

We finally realized that he wasn't going to be better enough to go for dinner, so Keith & Cecily headed over to Woodinville and the two of us hung out at home.

Parker went to sleep and I had left-over Christmas Eve pizza and watched White Christmas.  All told, it wasn't too bad as Christmases go.

Christmas Break

It's finally time for Christmas break!

Cecily opened a spa and painted my fingernails.

Small Group Christmas

Our small group went caroling at the Retirement Community where Jake works.  After the singing, the kids went around the room reading to the residents.

The next day, we went to the Lilliness' for dinner and white elephant exchange.