Penny's Two Cents: Mmmm...Pull-Aparts....

Christmas in Washington was great! It started off with a sick couple of days, but we still did a lot of fun stuff. Mom made cinnamon pull aparts, which restored Tim's faith in them since I burned ours last year. We did a hike in Manchester State Park, Seattle trip, and games at the Nelsons. Christmas morning, we racked in major candy (it will take us months to finish it all) and Dad got a huge remote control helicopter. Tim and I got a pretty sweet haul from the Egans as well as bathrobes from Santa. Whatever your opinion is on bathrobes...it's been pretty awesome wrapping up on chilly mornings!

The Seattle trip was really fun with Korwin, Alaire, Ken and Rosy. We all added gum to what google calls "the germiest tourist attraction in the world" and saw the gingerbread village. The ferry ride was cool because some nice people gave us part of their loaf of bread to feed the birds.

Phoenix was an awesome end to a Christmas vacation! I have the best nieces and nephews ever. We did a really cool desert hike up a mountain, a few trips to the park, game tournaments, some unique rounds of mafia, a bonfire, and lots of "holding hands and jumping in a circle," Liberty's favorite trampoline game. The high point for me was a tie between playing kittens with Addie/Liberty and eating Annaliese's magnificent dinner rolls. The low point was when Addie sat on a cactus....so sad! Tim's favorite part was the mountain hike and his low point was probably getting really bad rook hands ten times in a row. This video is of when I was walking through the kitchen and happened to see Elliott crawling through the doggy door haha.