Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas

This year we traveled up to Tacoma on Wednesday for Christmas festivities. On Thursday (Christmas Eve) we just hung out all day and Carter and I went to IHOP with Silas and Sarah Fitzsimmons (friends from Carter's church here as well as OC buddies). It was fun reminescing with them and enjoying some companionship with people our age since we don't know very many people in our age group in north bend.  At night our Christmas Eve dinner was ate at "Famous Daves" which is a BBQ place and that was yummy. Following dinner we drove around to see all the lights and we went through "Spanaway Lights" which is a long drive through lights show that lasted over 20 minutes and they did a great job with it!







Christmas day Carter's brother Clayton and his wife Sarah came over around 11 and we opened presents. We got spoiled and ended up with quite a few great things and a decent amount of chirstmas spending money. We spent the rest of our day playing games and eating a yummy ham dinner followed by going to the movie Sherlock Holmes (a pretty great film).

The Dogs thought the presents were for them and were begging like crazy.


















On Saturday we went shopping at the SUPER MALL where I made quite a dent in my christmas money but I got tons and tons of great deals. Carter only bought 1 pair of pants and 1 movie. (why am I not suprised).

Sunday we have spent at church and then with Clayton and Sarah and Paula and Darrell all playing games and having a good time, followed by dinner at Red Robin (Carter's Fav).

So far we have had a great and relaxing trip and we are just enjoying being with family and seeing people from here.

5 comments:

kara said...

cute christmas! :)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing your Christmas pictures. We missed not having Christmas in Yuba City this year. But did have a nice one here.
Love, Mema

Scotty and Summer Roller said...

It looks like Carter has lost some weight!

The Gills said...

Yes, we did go to the Today Show our last morning there. Mary J. Blige sang "I am." It was really fun! You should go, just make sure you bundle up!

Stacia said...

Hi Amber, you don't know me but I found your blog from your FB page. I used to babysit Carter and Clayton back in the early 90's :) We all went to church together and my family lived behind them on base. I noticed Paula put on her FB page about the boys and their wives so I just had to see some picutres of them all grown up! I blog too! www.staciajohnson.blogspot.com