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.

Long overdue Judo Tourney Post

So back in October Carter had a Judo Tournament that I've been wanting to post about. But I wanted to include video with the post but our Mac wasn't working and our dell wouldn't let me download video. So now, I have this working and I'm going to post about that crazy weekend. 

The tourney was up in Spanaway, WA so we stayed with Carter's parents and they joined us at the tournament as well as Sarah our sister-in-law (Clayton's wife).  Carter did great, he won 2 out of four matches and his last match was to get "true second." During his last match he was fighting the guy he had beat the first time but this time things went wrong. We didn't know this but apparently the guy had head butted him when they fell and split open Carters chin pretty good. They guy ended up throwing Carter for an Ipon (an instant win) and when Carter went over to the medic area we had no idea what was going on. So after a lot of chaos over there Carter walks over with his sensei (coach) and announces to us that he needs to go and get 4-6 stitches. The stitches thing ended up being so annonying because him and his dad went to urgent care and as they were filling out paperwork the lights went out so they ended up having to go to the hospital. About 6 hours later everybody was back at the Davis house for a late dinner and a quick game of pictionary with Carter's nasty chin.

Oh yeah, Carter received 3rd place overall. So proud of him!!

 

Showing off our coast

A view from where we hiked

This is a view from where we hiked at, isn't it beautiful!?!?

There might be a seal in here

The following 3 pictures are of some seal covered rocks down the road from where we hiked. Unfortunately they are so far away that you can't see them by eye, just by super zoom camera or binoculars.

A few weeks ago we had a recruiter from York College who was on the west coast come to town to visit with some of our kids. She ended up staying with us and had never really been to the ocean before so since I didn't have to work in the morning the next day I took her down to the beach, and then on a little hike that leads to cliffs that hang over the ocean. She of course loved it and thought it was gourgeous. We also were lucky to see tons of seals swimming below us probably going fishing but that was fun. It was such a gourgeous day outside too that I couldn't help but take some pictures to share with all of you!

Animals do the funniest things

Just a little warning that these videos are gross but extremely funny...Just thought I would share them with all of you so you can say ahhhhhhhhh.....grossssssssss.............!!!!!!!1