Happy New Year!

We rang in the new year with some of our favorite people!  

We missed those who were not able to join us too!  

Happy 2017!

Silly pictures...

Poppin' corks ...

Best buddies, something that will stay the same in 2017 and hopefully many more years to come.

Suncadia 2016

The Chui/Foley family graciously invited us to stay with them in Suncadia after Christmas (we had so much fun last year!)  Thank you!!!  This year was fun as well, we enjoyed the snow, cooking meals and having all the kids together.  *I have to give credit to Corey, who took most of these pictures, thank you for capturing our trip to a winter wonder land!*

Kenzi loves snow!

Last year Kenzi was pulling Kasen, this year it's time for Kenzi to get a ride!

Emi and Nathan

They are starting to get silly!

Enjoying the snow together!

Here are all the kids hanging out after sledding and baths.

Buddies

The big kids ...                                      The little kids...

The house had the perfect bunk room for all the kids!


See the turkeys?  They were just roaming around like last year.

Christmas Day

The girls woke up Christmas morning to find some gifts from Santa 

and they were excited to unwrap them after breakfast.  

Emi asked for a Simon Air and Kenzi asked for the Crayola Crayon Factory.

The night before they each opened one gift when Grandpa came over.

They chose to open up their gifts from Nathan and Kasen...

Auntie Corey and Uncle Marc

they loved what they unwrapped, Nerf guns...then they had fun playing shooting practice.

Gas Works Park

Our friends Mike, Amy, and Gabriella invited us to have dinner, hangout and check out the Christmas boats at Gas Works.  We had a fun night together, thanks guys!

Here are all the kiddos!

The boats were so pretty all lit up at night.

Kindergarten Kafe

It was the grand opening of the Kindergarten Kafe in Kenzi's class today.  I stopped by to have a special lunch with my littlest.  Mrs. Osotio does such a great job with making learning so fun, she was even wearing her conductor suit for Polar Express!

Cousins by the tree

It is nearly impossible to get a picture of all 5 of the girls looking AND smiling nicely these days.

Here is the best they could do!

The Old Spaghetti

One last family meal at the Seattle 

Thank you Christine and Eric for hosting this fun holiday get together!

All the couples

Checking out the telephone booth and caboose...

We have share many meals here as one big family, families on their own, as couples, as boyfriend and girlfriend...lots of good memories, we will miss this historic venue!

Christmas Cookies

If my kids have even mentioned our friend Alyssa, they would say, Alyssa is the best baker!  She really is and such a kind friend to invite us to decorate cookies this afternoon.  

The kids had fun being creative cookie decorators and played afterwards while Alyssa and I sat down to decorate a few cookies too.  

Kenzi and Nathan ready to decorate cookies!

They were all so focused...and quietly crunching on sprinkles...

Just some of their creations from today!

Thank you Alyssa!

Kenzi's Drawing

I was cleaning off my desk after the weekend and found this drawing by Kenzi.

First Family Ski Trip to Crystal Mountain

We had a great day at Crystal Mountain together, the conditioners were great and we were able to ski runs together!  We didn't get any pictures of Erich, he snowboarded today but is going to try skiing sometime this year.  I love that we were able to go on one chair together and make it down together too!  Kenzi just picked up from where she left off last year and was able to keep up.  Emi and I would check out a new run before we took Kenzi along to make sure it wasn't anything too crazy.  Compared to Snoqualmie, Crystal had better snow, longer runs, shorter lines, and lifts that were easier for kids to get on, tickets are less too...I think all the pros make the slightly long trek to get there worth it!  Can't wait for our next ski day.

New Shirts

Auntie Margie made the girls some new t-shirts with her Uncle Charlie Brown's team name Hajime Mizuno.  Thanks for the cool shirts!